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taking out the contents of a vault he wants some stuff to deodorize ; 

 carbolate of lime is good, sulpliuric acid or sawdust, ashes and plaster 

 mixed, or sour swamp muck dried, 



Mr. W. B.Bunnell. — I have had experience in this matter for many 

 jears past, and have been best satisfied with the use of dry earth. 



The Ccrculio. 



The Chairman said that the gentleman who last addressed the 

 meeting had been giving special attention to this pest of the fruit- 

 growers. Mr. Bunnell said, in reply, that he had battled with the 

 enemy for a score or more of years. He had tried everything, bought 

 all the nostrums, but had not found relief. The best success attended 

 the practice of smoking half the tree and not the other half. Smok- 

 ing half seems to drive the enemy over, but when the whole is smoked 

 he survives and rallies. But now, continued the speaker, I have a 

 cure, all of my own invention, which is cheap, easily applied, and 

 which, I am free to confess, I hope to make a little money on. Mr. 

 Bunnell then showed some specimens of quinces picked from a tree 

 which had been treated after the manner of his patented process, and 

 which were comparatively free of stings. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — The curculio that attacks the quince does 

 not trouble other fruit ; therefore, what prevented its ravages might 

 not be equally efhcacious on plum trees. A friend of mine was com- 

 paratively exempt this year, because last year he picked his quinces 

 and put them in barrels, and kept them standing for some time. 

 When he removed them at last, he found many curculios in the 

 botton of the barrels, and these he killed of course, and thus he les- 

 sened the number. The principle is a good one. Ten thousand 

 people in Vineland have proved it so during the past season, and I 

 question if any one will find a better way, 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — The curculio is a bothersome insect, even in a 

 pear orchard. I know Mr. Bunnell, and have confidence in him, but 

 the remedy should stand the test of years. The only remedy I know 

 of at present was known and })racticed before our day, namely, the 

 jarring process, and the gathering of the affected fruit that falls. This 

 has given great relief in Vineland this year, but it did not remove the 

 enemy. 



Dr. J. Y. C. Smith. — This topic is one of great interest and if our 

 friend has a remedy, he has it in his j^ower to confer an immense 

 benefit upon the country, and I hope he will make it free as air, and not 



