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dropped off. The trees had the appearance of having been frosted. 

 When I first noticed them there was a drop of oil hanging on each 

 bud. They went from the crabs to the standard apples. Would like 

 to know if anyone at the meeting has had any experience with these 

 pests and if any remedy has been found ? I have heard of them in 

 several other orchards around here and also of others they have not 

 touched. 



Third — We had late spring frosts that killed most of the blossoms 

 on the apple that had escaped the bugs ; cherries had the same fate ; 

 so apples and cherries in this part are scarce. The frosts killed a 

 great many buds on the grape vines and then came on the rose-bugs, 

 which would have taken all the grapes had we not fought them off. 

 Would like to know a good remedy for these pests. If we do get any 

 grapes we'll have to fight for them and then get only half a crop. 



My strawberry bed was the only one near here that had any berries 

 this year. I picked 800 quarts off six rows fifty rods long, and sold 

 them for 12J cents per quart. The dry weather dried the raspberries 

 and blackberries on the bushes. On July 13 the thermometer went 

 up to 108° in the shade, 135° in the sun. Some of the grapes wilted 

 on the vine. The wild plums are nearly all dried up on the trees, or 

 are so small they will be worthless. With the exception of a few 

 apple orchards that the bugs did not find and that were well protected 

 on the northwest, and that are full of fruit, Buffalo county this year 

 is fruitless. 



If this is any value to you use it; if not, throw it in the waste 

 basket. 



Hoping that the meeting may be a success and that you may all 

 have a good time, and trusting I shall be with you at the winter 

 meeting, I remain, yours respectfully, John A. Hogg. 



American Pomological Society, ^ 



South Haven, Mich., July 11, 1890. j 



G. J. Carpenter, Fairbury, Nebr. : My Dear Sir — It would be a 

 great pleasure to me to meet with your Society on the 31st inst. and 

 to make the acquaintance of the horticulturists of your state, as well as 

 to see something of the products of your section of the " Great Ameri- 

 can Desert v of my school-boy days, but I regret to say that duties 

 at home imperatively forbid. Yours truly, T. T. Lyon. 



