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A National Cl«ry-.antliemiiin Society. 
At a recent meeting of the American So- 
ciety of Florists, a National Chrysanthemum 
Society was organized. The following of- 
ficers were elected: President, John Thorpe, 
of Pearl River, N. Y. ; Vice President, Win. 
K. Harris, of Philadelphia; Secretary, Ed- 
ward Lonsdale, of Philadelphia; Treasurer, 
John Lane of Chicago; Executive Commit- 
tee, W. A. Wanda, of Short Hills, N. J. : 
Thomas H. Spaulding, of Orange, N. J. ;W. 
J. Betterman, of Indianapolis: T. J. Anthony, 
of Chicago; E. H. Fewkes, of Newton High- 
lands, Mass.; Robert Craig, of Philadelphia; 
John Spaulding, of New London, Conn.; 
Alexander Murdox, of Pittsburg, and B. T. 
Critchel, of Cincinnati. The third annual 
Chrysanthemum Show will take place in 
Indianapolis, Nov. 5th to 9tli inclusive. 

Tlie New Cattle or Horn Fly. 
Although a subject more suitable perhaps 
for the columns of an agricultural journal, 
which Orchard & Garden is not, it is one 
of so much importance and so many of our 
readers own country homes that we find 
space to speak briefly of it here. It is a 
small fly half the size of a house fly which 
settles in great numbers around the base of 
the horns and other portions of the body 
where it cannot be reached by either the 
tail or the head of the animal. It sucks a 
moderate amount of blood, reduces the con- 
dition of the cattle and lessens the yield of 
milk from one-third to one-half. The 
new pest has been investigated the present 
summer by the Department of Agriculture 
through the Acting Entomologist, Mr. L. 0. 
How'ard, who has succeeded in tracing the 
entire life history of the pest. He finds 
that the fly lays its eggs, usually at night, 
in freshly dropped cow-dung and that for 
the development from the egg through the 
maggot stage to the perfect fly again, a 
space of only 12 days is necessary. The ra- 
pidity of reproduction accounts for the 
wonderful numbers in which these flies ap- 
pear, and it follows with reasonable certain- 
ty that the insect will pass the winter in 
the quiescent stage at the bottom of dungs 
dropped late in the fall (the approximate 
date to be determined later.) The preven- 
tive is obviously to lime the dung in the fall 
in places where the cattle preferably stand 
at night. At the present time applications 
may be made to milch cows and valuable 
animals which will keep the flies away. 
The application may be (1) fish-oil and pine 
tar with a little sulphur added; (2) tobacco 
dust, when the skin is not broken; (3) tallow 
and a small amount of carbolic acid. The 
latter application will also have a healing 
effect where sores have forrnod. 
We offer this month ( see first page of cov- 
er) as a premium to club-raisers two com- 
plete sets of standard works — Scott and 
Dickens— upon very liberal terms. For a 
club of only five subscribers we offer a set 
of either delivered free. By making a large 
contract with a leading book manufacturer 
we are euabled to offer what is probably 
the most extraordinarily liberal premium 
ever heard of. 
How to obtain tlie Publications of the 
Experiment Stations. 
In reply to many enquiries, we are glad 
to inform our readers that the experiment 
stations publish bulletins and reports of their 
work which are now supplemented by pub- 
lications of the Office of Experiment Sta- 
tions, U. S. Department of agriculture. 
Each station sends its own publications, 
without expense, to residents of its State 
who apply for them, and the publications 
of the office of Experiment Stations, De- 
partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. 0., 
are likewise sent on application. For a list 
of the experiment stations in the U. S. with 
locations and names of directors, send to the 
Office of Experiment Stations for Farmers' 
Bulletin No. 1, noticed in the Book Table. 
Our Book Table. 
The Garden's Story, nr Pleasures and Trials of a n 
Amateur Gardener, by George H. Eli.wanger. 
This charming little book of some three hundred and 
odd pages possesses a fascinating interest to all lovers 
of the garden. It is written in a delightful chatty style 
but abounds in practical hints and suggestions with 
much useful information, so pleasantly conveyed, that 
it will doubtless instruct and profit many whom more 
strictly scientific works would deter. It will materially 
aid in popularizing hardy flower-gardening as a source 
of recreation no less than as a means of outward adorn- 
ment, and that which will lead us out into the garden 
and keep us there is to be commended. The author 
tells us in the preface that his aim has been ‘ to pre- 
sent a simple outline of hardy flower-gardening, 
rather than a formal treatise or text-book of plants — 
to stimulate a love for amateur gardening that may be 
carried out by all who are willing to bestow upon it 
that meed of attention it so bountifully repays,” and 
he has succeeded admirably. New York. D. Apple- 
ton & Co. 
TJ. S. Department of Agriculture. Officeof Expe- 
riment Stations. Farmers Bulletin, No. 1. The 
What and Why of Agricultural Experiment Stations. 
Prof. W. 0. Atwater, Director. A brief account of 
the Experiment Stations, what they are, what they are 
doing and how they do it, together with a short history 
of the origin and development of the Experiment Sta- 
tion work in this country and an account of the work in 
the same line in Europe. Amongst other things we learn 
from it that no other country in the world has under- 
taken scientific work for the benefit of its farmers on 
such a vast scale as the United States, it costs the 
country $725,000 a year, and employs ab' ut 370 scien- 
tific men. The annual value of our agricultural pro- 
ducts is not less than $2,200,000,000. The farming 
lands, farm implements, and live stock of the country 
are estimated to be worth $12,000,000,000. The experi- 
ment stations cost us, therefore, about $6.25 a year for 
every million dollars invested In agriculture or about 
33 cents for every thousand dollars’ worth of products 
in an attempt to increase the value of those products in 
future years. 
U. S- Department of Agriculture. Section of Veg- 
etable Pathology. Quarterly Bulletin. June, 1889. 
The Journal of Mycology: devoted to the study of Fun- 
gi, especially in their relation to plant diseases. Pre- 
pared by B. T. Galloway, Chief of the Section. 
New Jersey Agricidtural Experiment Station. 
Bulletin 56. Analyses and Valuations of Complete 
Fertilizers. Special Bidletin, F. The Horn Fly. By 
John B. Smith, Entomologist. Special Bulletin, G. 
The Potato Rot. By Byron D. Halsted, Botanist. 
Geo. H. Cook, Director. New Brunswick, N. J. 
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion. BulletinVII. July, 1889. Horticultural Depart- 
ment. On the Influences of Certain Conditions upon 
the Sprouting of Seeds. By L. H. Bailey, Horticul- 
turist. I. P. Roberts, Director, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Kansas Fruit-crop Report for July 1, 1889. Pub- 
lished.by the Secretary of the Kansas Horticultural So- 
ciety. This is a series of tables showing’the percentage 
of classes of fruit grown in each county, district, and 
the State and is interesting and valuable to all Kansas 
fruit-growers, 
U. S. Department of Agricidture. Office of Ex- 
periment Stations. Miscellaneous Bulletin No. 1. 
Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention of the 
Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Ex- 
periment Stations, held at Knoxsville, Tenn., January 
1, 2, and 3, 1889. W. O. Atwater, Director. 
Agricultural College of Michigan. Experiment 
Station. Bulletin No. 51. Enemies of the Wheat 
Aphis. By Prof. A. J. Cook. This pamphlet will 
prove interesting to the readers of Orchard & Garden 
in connection with the article in the August number 
on the Grain Aphis or Plant Louse, by Prof. Hillman. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Report of the 
Statistician. Ncu Series. Report No. 65. A report 
on the condition of growing crops and on freight rates 
of transportation companies. B. W. Snow, Assistant 
Statistician. 
Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment 
Station. Bulletin VIII. Mt/f/t'xtl889. On the effect 
of different rations on fattening Iambs. I. P. Roberts, 
Director, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Catalogue# Received. 
Johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia, Pa. Fall Catalogue 
of Seed Wheat, Bulbs Seeds and other Specialties for 
Autumn planting. 
V. H. Hallock & Son, Queens, N. Y. Floral Annual 
for Fall of 1889. A well illustrated Catalogue of Bulbs. 
Seeds. Plants, etc. 
Schlegel A Fottler, Boston. Mass. Autumn Cat- 
alogue of Bulbs, Roots, Plants and Seeds. 
J. L. Normand, Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, La. 
Circular and Price-list of New and Rare Buds and Plants 
by mail. The collection of Oriental Plums in this list 
is very full but shows somewhat the confusion existing 
among the Japanese varieties We have been told that 
Botan and Hattonkin are identical yet we find here 
Hattonkin No. 1 and No. 2 and tlire- varieties of Botan. 
Also Botonkio No. 1 and No. 2. Some very recent in- 
troductions are also described such as Burbank Japan 
Plum and Kah-no-ko peach. A very interesting circular. 
F. A. Sinclair. Mottville, N. Y. Illust rated Cata- 
logue of Sinclair’s Common Sense Chairs. An easy 
chair, such as those manufactured 1 y Mr. Sinclair, is 
one of the things every home should have. An assort- 
ment of chairs of all forts and conditions is here figured 
and described. 
State Fairs and Exhibition)#. 
Alabama 
Birmingham .... 
...Oct. 21— Nov. 2 
Airier. Institute.. 
New York City. . . 
. ..Oct. 2- Nov. 30 
Arizona 
Phoenix 
Oct 16—19 
Arkansas 
Pine Bluff 
Buffalo Internat’l Buffalo, N. Y 
Sept. 3—13 
California 
Sacramento 
Sent. 9— 21 
Colorado 
Pueblo 
Oct. 3—9 
Connecticut 
. Meriden 
Sept. 17—20 
Dakota, North . . 
. Grand Forks 
Sept. 17-21 
Dakota, South 
Aberdeen 
Sept. 23—27 
Delaware 
Dover 
Georgia 
. Macon. • 
Illinois 
Peoria. 
Sept. 23-27 
Indiana 
Indianapolis 
Iowa 
. Des Moines 
..Aug. 30— Sept. 6 
Kansas 
. Topeka 
Louisiana 
Shreveport . . . 
.Oct. 8-14 
Maine 
Sept. 10—13 
Maryland 
Pimlico 
Sept. 9 14 
Massachusetts. . . 
Boston 
Oct. 7—12 
Mass. Hort. Soc’ty Boston 
Sept 17-20 
Michigan 
, Lansing 
Sept. 6—13 
Minnesota 
Hamline. 
Missouri 
St Louis 
Oct. 7-12 
Nebraska 
. Lincoln 
Sept. 6—13 
New England . . . 
Worcester, Mass.. 
Sept. 3-6 
New Hampshire. . 
Tilton (Grange).. 
Sept. 10-12 
New Jersey 
. Waverly 
Sept. 16-20 
N. J. (Inter State) 
Trenton 
. Sept. 30— Oct. 4 
New Mexico... 
Albuquerque 
. . .Sept. 30— Oct. 4 
New York 
Albany 
Sept. 12 19 
N. Y. (Inter State) Elmira 
Sept. 16 — 26 
Ohio 
Columbus 
Sept. 2—6 
Oregon 
. Salem 
Pennsylvania 
Reading 
Rhode Island. 
. Providence 
. .Sept. 23—27 
South Carolina.. 
. Columbia 
Texas 
. Dallas 
Oct. 15—27 
Utah 
. Salt Lake City 
Oct. 2-5 
Vermont 
Burlington 
Sept. 3—6 
Washington 
Spokane 
. . ...Sept. 23— 28 
West Virginia. . . 
Wheeling 
Sept. 9-13 
Wisconsin 
Milwaukee 
Sept. 16-20 
Wyoming 
. Cheyenne 
