406 TjiAXSACTIOXS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Yermont, it is easily answered. It is only, by the season, twenty- 

 two dollars to thirty-two dollars per month, and by the year twenty 

 dollars to twenty -six dollars, boarding and washing furnished in both 

 cases by the employer. In haying and harvesting by the day — laborer 

 risking tlie weather — $2.50 a day and board. Is not this an encourag- 

 ing prospect for farmers, particularly for the growing of wool, at 

 twenty-four cents per pound, gold ? We are greatly in need in 

 Yermont of the immigration of foreign farm laborers. Thousands 

 of them could be employed at high wages. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — I regaixl this as a very sensible letter. It 

 goes to show what I have advocated on other occasions, namely, the 

 absohite impropriety of any meddling with the subject on the part of 

 this Club. Let the farmers make their own arrangements. There is 

 no other way. The affair is purely personal in its nature, and the 

 adjustment must be made between the employer and the employed. 



To Keep the Bros Away. 



Mr, A. P. Coddington, of Trumansburgh, IS". Y., having noticed in 

 the proceedings some directions for preventing depredations of striped 

 bugs, called attention to the fact of liis unsuccessful experience with 

 various snuffs and powders, and gave the following as an effectual 

 method : I take a piece of an old newspaper, large enough to cover 

 the hill well, place it over the hill, bury the edges in the ground, 

 then pull it up three or four inches in the center, and it will remain 

 there in the form of a small tent. Then tear a small hole in the top, 

 which will give the plants all the light and air required, and they will 

 grow more rapidly than if left uncovered, as it protects them from tho 

 cold nights, while not a bug will get at them. Should it rain hard 

 the papers would necessarily have to be removed and replaced. This 

 is the easiest and most effectual way I have ever found. 



Mr. Thomas Cavanagh. — This might do for a farmer who has a 

 baker'.^ dozen of hills, but it certainly would not answer at all for 

 extensive operations. Soot is my remedy. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen. — I have used soot with great advantage this sea- 

 son. I took the trouble to throw it on the under as well as the upper 

 side of tho leaves, and my infant vegetation was not destroyed. 



Strawbekrt Runners. 

 Mr. C. S. Weld, of Olamon, Penobscot county. Me., asked the 

 Club to tell him if he had better cut off the runners from strawberry 

 plants set last fall and this spring, and if so, when \ 



