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orchard. Allowing trees to over-bear and break themselves down» 

 is a mistake. Thin the fruit, but do not prop the limb. 



If one has dwarf pears, as the quince root is fibrous, do not let 

 the ground remain in grass; if you do you will make a mistake. 

 Pa\ing big prices for new A'arieties has in some cases proved a mis- 

 take. The writer has seen, in Washington County, large orchards^ 

 comprised mostly of Sulard crab. I think we shall have to call 

 thot a mistake. Tree agents sell us a bill of trees of a certain 

 variety', and when the}' fruit they do not prove true to name. What 

 shall we do, keep our temper and call it a mistake? But, in fruit 

 growing, as in most other business, the profits are in proportion to 

 the risks ; and to all those that have a taste for the business we 

 would sav, grow fruit by all means AVith the keeping qualities of 

 our Maine fruit, and the large foreign demand, with our conven- 

 iences for shipping, the A'alue of our fruit, compared with that from 

 some other states in the Union, our cheap hill-sides so well adapted 

 to fruit growing — when all these advantages are considered, what 

 fairer prospect could we ask than to have good orchards on our 

 farms? 



The next paper presented was, 



CAN THE CODLIXG MOTH BE TRAPPED? 



By Samuel C. Haklow. 



Under this head The Home Farm of January 7th published an 

 article from the Orange Coiuity Farmer informing its readers that 

 Mr. Smith, who had raised a large crop of fine winter appk'S, in- 

 cluding Northern Spies, Greenings, and Kings — perfectly sound and 

 free from worms — attril)utes his success to the placing in each tree a 

 small tin cup with a solution of molasses, vinegar and water to 

 attract the codling moth. As might be expected, the result, to use 

 his own words, was, that he captured m3riads of moths of various 

 kinds, and he tJiinks a good many codling moths. But right here, 

 when the success of this method seems so certain to the uninitiated 

 reader that he resolves to use his own fruit in the same way, Mr. 

 Smith dashes the hopes of his reader b\- the cool admission that he 

 is not suflicientl}- versed in entomology to positively identify the cod- 

 ling moth ; so that the question of whether among the myriads of 

 moths, millers, beetles, bugs, and other insects (many of them in- 



