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Codling Moth Tkap. 



Rev. John "Weaver — I have received a letter requesting me to 

 inquire of the Club the value of "Wier's Codling Moth Trap, and how 

 it is made. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn — At the meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society, in Richmond, Mr. "Wier exhibited an apparatus for catching 

 the codling moth, which appeared to be simple and effective. It was 

 three pieces of board, of fan-shape, fastened in the small middle with 

 a screw ; by this they were attached to the tree. The boards were 

 folded together and fastened to the tree. The moths would seek a 

 hiding place between the folds, and once or twice a week the folds 

 were opened and the moths killed. C. V. Riley and other eminent 

 men of the west approved it. It is a patented article, though ; and 

 no farmer has a right to make one for himself.' 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble — I have studied the habits of the codling 

 moth very closely, and must say that this trap is a very good thing. 

 It affords just the shelter the larvse look for. But there is one thing 

 needed which it does not supply. The larvae fall to the ground with 

 the apples, and by a curious instinct make directly for the foot of the 

 tree and mount it directly, upwards, to seek a scale of bark or some 

 similar shelter beneath which they may hide. Now, here is where 

 this trap fails, and where the hay rope tied round the tree is an 

 improvement on it. The trap only attracts those which directly meet 

 it, and all those which pass up the tree on either side are missed. If 

 the hay rope is property made it will be more successful than this 

 trap ; and yet this trap is a very good thing in its way. 



Mr. Henry Stewart — Three flour-barrel hoops, one outside the 

 other, fastened with a nail tight round the tree, will furnish a hiding- 

 place for them. The patent trap is useless to be recommended here, 

 because farmers cannot make them and no one knows where to pur- 

 chase them. 



Steam Plowing in England. 



General J. H. Van Allen, New Hamburg, N. J., read a paper on 

 steam plowing as now practiced in England, full of practical data as 

 to its cost and the great value to the agricultural interests of that 

 country. From his paper we learned that steam plowing, there was 

 conducted by companies, who took contracts and did the work for a 

 whole township. By request of the author the paper will not appear 

 until a future date. 



On motion of Dr. J. Y. C. Smith the thanks of the Club were 



