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thumb aud finger. An3-one who knows this bug, knows that he 

 plays possum and curls up to look like the bud of the tree. We 

 found it cost us ou an average of twent^'-flve cents a tree to do the 

 bugging and I thought we must employ some cheaper method So 

 one of our mechanics went to work and arranged a machine some- 

 thing like an inverted umbrella. The inverted umbrella is placed 

 upon something like a wheelbarrow. The arms extend on either 

 side. A man pushes it along, it is perhaps ten feeti in length and 

 is arranged upon low wheels of the diameter of perhaps two feet 

 so. that the machine can be pushed against the side of the tree. 

 There is a slit cut in one side of the umbrella so j'ou can push it 

 against the tree and the tree comes to the apex or where the staff 

 would be in an umbrella. Then as you jar the leaves of the tree 

 the bugs drop aud go on the sheet. Just at the apex of the 

 umbrella there is a little tin drawer into which the man brushes the 

 bugs that have fallen into the umbrella and so he goes through all 

 the trees. At the end of the row there is a peanut roaster where 

 he empties the contents of the tin can. That is the machine and 

 it costs us about ten cents per tree if a good man works as he 

 ought to work. With that machine the woik is done quite as 

 thoroughly as you could do it with sheets or any other method. 

 We go over them right along every day, we skip .Sundays, the buga 

 keep at work, Mondays they are pretty tliick, we have to go over 

 them at least twice Mondays. We follow that up for a week or 

 ten days and then we do it every other day. About the third week 

 you would not find many of them. That is about the modus 

 operandi of running that machine and catching the bugs. In the 

 morning thoy are more dormant, they are not so active as they are 

 at noon. The cuiculio is a rascally fellow. They will deposit an 

 egg in one jjlum and then go right to another plum and so they will 

 destio}' these plums as rapidly as I can talk. 



DISCUSSIOX— THE ORCHARD. 

 Mr. Pope. — You may call me selfish because I don't advise men 

 to go into this business. A man comes in here aud hears stories, 

 hears big stoi ies about big crops that we get, and goes out and seta 

 out a big'orchard and then cannot wait for his crops. I have only 

 induced that man to waste his money, it is a foolish outlay It is 

 only those who are willing to make a hobby of it that are going to 

 succeed. I believe in hobbies and specialists. It requires more 



