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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



About one gallon of oil was consumed under the three 

 ovens in the preparation of this material. Average value 

 for a fine grade of oil, ten cents. 



SECOND DAY. 



The meeting was called to order by Secretary Sessions at 

 10 o'clock, who said : A little preliminary skirmishing 

 before the battle will clear the air, perhaps. Professor May- 

 nard is in the audience, and I wish he would come forward 

 and tell us what he has on exhibition below. 



Prof. S. T. Maynard (of Amherst). Gentlemen, the 

 matter of protecting our fruit crops from attacks of insects 

 is one that is attracting a great deal of attention throughout 

 the country, and to illustrate the methods of using insecti- 

 cides and fungicides, we have on exhibition some of the 

 pumps used for that purpose. We have a machine pump 

 and barrel pump, and I will have upon the stage some of the 

 smaller pumps, the knapsack pump ; and some of the others 

 are in the room below, where they can l^e seen as you are 

 passing by. The apple crop has been very large, and per- 

 haps one-third of the crop has been wasted and gone to 

 decay. In order to prevent this, we have been making some 

 experiments with the use of evaporators for drying at the 

 Agricultural College, using waste apples, the drops and 

 seconds, and even the cider apples. I have some products 

 from the evaporators in the room below, which may be seen 

 by you. We were not able to get the evaporators into this. 



