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strong wliale-oil soap surl?, was effectually used on the bug. Ashes, 

 slackffl lime and dry dirt, have measurably succefded in displacing 

 the slug. 



I will add that numerous Horticultural Societies have been formed 

 in the Slate and give promise of great usefulness in diffusing informa- 

 tion and forming correct taste in relation to the culture of fruit. The 

 three most prominent of them are located at Cincinnati, Columbus, 

 Dayton and Cleveland, cities, southern, central and northern, soon to 

 be connected by railroad which will greatly facilitate interchanges be- 

 tween them, and enable these societies to collect, examine and com- 

 pare fruit at all seasons of the year. These societies embrace very 

 many of our intelligent and most practical pomologists, and from their 

 direct, friendly, zealous and determined co-operation, the American 

 Congress may in future years expect much valuable aid. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 



Cleveland^ Ohio, Sept. 22, 1849. 



A. McINTOSH. 



MISSOURI. 



REPORT OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



Owing to the raging of the cholera, and the absence from home of 

 some of the members of the Committee, a meeting was not held un- 

 til the 12lh of October, 1849. 



At this meetmg the outlines of the following brief report were 

 agreed upon, and the chairman requested to transmit the same to the 

 chairman of the General Fruit Committee. 



The natural soil of this part of the country is a black vegetable 

 mould, of perhaps six inches average depth, lying upon a sub-soil of 

 yellow clay, under which lies a bluish limestone. Upon this soil 

 superior crops of various fruits have been produced. The bottom 

 lands of the rivers, made of alluvial soil, have also been tried, and 

 though they produce tolerably well, yet the fruit crops are deemed 

 inferior, and the trees are believed to be short-lived. 



The Committee are not aware that the superior crops of fruit 

 which have been grown are attributable to any particular kind or 

 system of manuring. Lime and ashes, however, have been applied 



