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Dr. Isaac P. Trimble expressed his views at some length. He 

 thinks they can be exterminated by putting a band of hay around 

 the tree. The moth resorts to this as a nest, and makes its cocoon 

 beneath it. If a rope of hay is tied around the apple or pear 

 tree, about the first of July, this moth will lodge its cocoons 

 beneath it, and they can easily be destroyed. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter thought this moth could be killed by set- 

 ting in the orchards lamps of kerosene oil, or tubs of soap suds, or 

 by open-mouthed bottles filled with sweetened water. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble expressed his conviction that lamps and 

 bottles of sweetened water killed a great many moths that are 

 friendly to man; as many as it does of the enemies of fruit. Ho 

 said the coddling moth is not active as a moth till about the end 

 of June. 



In this connection, Mr. G. Jaques, of Boston, was introduced. 

 He is the inventor of tobacco soap, which has been found, by 

 several horticulturists in Massachusetts, effective in clearing plants 

 of lice, red spiders and rose bugs, and also for driving vermin from 

 animals. The Chair appointed several gentlemen as a committee 

 of reference, to use it and report results. 



DEEP PLOWING. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — Mr. Chairman, we have had trite 

 maxims handed down to us, from time immemorial, in which deep 

 plowing has been advocated; and the subject of plowing deep at 

 all times and in all places, was like a chain through all our agricul- 

 tural literature. We are all zealous advocates of deep tillage. I 

 believe in putting on a strong, heavy, double, and sometimes treble, 

 team, and thrusting in the plow beam-deep, even when the imple- 

 ment is constructed with a direct reference to thorough pulveriza- 

 tion, to the depth of thirty or forty inches, provided the soil is of 

 such a character as to require such deep tillage. I say to one man, 

 put in your plow beam-deep, and turn up a new soil that will yield 

 a more bountiful crop than was ever before seen on that land. But 

 to another farmer, I say, do not plow that land at all. It would 

 be ruinous to plow it. There ai*e thousands of acres of excellent 

 land in New Jersey and other States, that should never be disturbed 

 either with the trench-plow, the surface-soil plow, or the subsoil 

 plow. I have a small farm, which I am now cultivating, that I 

 would not have plowed with either of the implements just alluded 

 to, for the price of half the value of the land, even if plowmen, 



