Dr. KENNEDY. On that I can give no advice-I have no knowledge of any experiments on that subject. All I can state would be a matter of opinion. But I will say the use of sulphur in almost any of its forms is valuable, and perhaps the most valuable means we have of destroying insects. Sulphur can be employed in the way explained here combined with carbon. The substance is cheap, and is made very easily by passing the vapor of sulphur over incandescent charcoal, and it is transported in all the vine-growing districts of France in barrels. But as to the question which has been presented here, I am unable to answer it.

Mr. KELLER. How would it do to wash trees with it?

Dr. KENNEDY. It is too volatile for that. To wash trees, perhaps the best way would be to boil the sulphur with lime, and use it as a wash. Colonel TAGGART. That would not stay on the outside of anything, (pointing to contents of bottle.)

Dr. KENNEDY. This would not.

The PRESIDENT. Could either gentlemen suggest whether it could be used by stockmen to rid their stock of vermin?

Colonel TAGGART. It would do away with the stock themselves.
The PRESIDENT. I mean by some mixture.

Mr. LANDRETH. It can be confined to the leaf to a considerable extent. I believe it can be used in exterminating grubs, such as those that infect cantaloupes. I think it is quite practicable to use an injection, using a pump, as it were, to be worked by hand, by which the farmer could pass from hill to hill of a watermelon patch, or from grape-vine to grape-vine, at any time, or even go into his corn-field and kill the wire-worm. I think by employing a tube and running it among the leaves a few inches, and injecting a small quantity from the end of the apparatus, that sufficient material could be injected onto the leaves to entirely eradicate such insects for the time being. Of course they might make their appearance after some days, or some weeks, but I believe they could be entirely destroyed at that moment. Dr. KENNEDY. Such an instrument is in use in France. They began with a band instrument.

Colonel TAGGART. This no doubt would be fatal to the borer, if you could get it inside of the peach tree.

Dr. KENNEDY. These suggestions can be made use of to advantage just now, and other suggestions may be made hereafter.

Mr. WILHELM. I move that the reports of the committee be received, and that Dr. Kennedy's report be received also, and all entered upon the minutes; and that the Secretary be authorized to print them in pamphlet form for distribution.

The motion was seconded by Mr. McKEAN, and unanimously agreed to. Mr. WILHELM. If not out of place in speaking on this subject of destroying insects, I propose to give my experience in destroying the weevil. When I resided in Cornwall, Lebanon county, we had some fifteen or sixteen barns. The weevil became very destructive in those barns. I saw a notice in some agricultural report that Peruvian guano was very destructive to the weevil. I had it applied in the barns, and it drove them out very soon. I had it spread on the timbers, and on the wall-flats in the stone barns, and got rid of the weevil entirely.

Dr. KENNEDY. Ammonia would probably do it.

Colonel TAGGART. Since our last meeting, a very highly esteemed member of this Board has passed away-Daniel O. Gehr. I move you, sir, that. a committee be appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sentiments. of this body in regard to his death.

The motion was seconded by Mr. WILHELM, and agreed to.

The PRESIDENT appointed as the committee Colonel Taggart, Mr. Mackey, and Mr. Seiler.

Secretary SEILER. The Governor, in his message, has seen proper to honor this Society with a little notice, and I move that it be read for the information of the members.

Secretary McCONKEY. The extract is taken from the Evening Telegraph of January 6, 1885.

"THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY NOT A STATE INSTITUTION. "There ought to be some modifications made in the existing laws relating to that branch of government having in charge agricultural matters. The law which recognizes the State Agricultural Society as in some way connected with the public administration of this subject, by appropriating it annually twenty-two hundred and fifty dollars, should be repealed. Hereafter, there should be but one head of the agricultural interest, to wit: The State Board of Agriculture, to which all appropriations for this interest should be made, and which should have the entire charge of all matters, pertaining to this branch of the public affairs. Notably should the Agricultural Board have the exclusive control of the publication of the agricultural reports. These changes should be made for the obvious reason that the Agricultural Society is a private corporation, conducted with a view to the private profit of its stockholders, most of whom are capitalists and farmers of large wealth, who are principally concerned in the refinements of agriculture, fancy stock-raising, and the development of fleet horses, rather than the practical concerns of every-day farming. Such an institution is well enough in its sphere, and to be commended as a private enterprize; but as the State has a department of its own devoted to this subject, whatever public money is spent for this purpose should be spent through the recognized public channel. By dividing the resources intended for this interest, the State Board is deprived of a part of the means which should legitimately go to its support and the development of its usefulness."

Colonel TAGGART. If I knew the Governor's breakfast hour, I would move that this body wait upon him at that hour and make him apologize. (Laughter.)

Mr. KELLER. I second it.

Mr. McKEAN. Let the band play!

Mr. BRANSON. How many shares have you?

Colonel TAGGART. I would like to know.

The PRESIDENT. Is there any discussion on the report of the Governor?

I think it is worthy of some discussion by this Society.

Secretary SEILER. I move that the matter be referred to a committee of three to prepare an answer to this statement of the Governor, and that the committee be appointed by the President.

The motion was seconded by Mr. BARTO.

Colonel TAGGART. If it were not that he had the veto power, I would think it unworthy of notice.

Mr. MACKEY. I think it is unfair, and untrue, and beneath the dignity of this body. We dignify it by noticing it.

Secretary McCONKEY. I think it is a good motion, for this reason: Let it be referred to the committee, and, after they have thoroughly considered it, they can refer it to this Society to-morrow at its annual meeting.

Mr. WILHELM. If the majority will accept a motion or suggestion, it strikes me that courtesy dictates that at least a majority of that committee should consist of members of the State Board who often meet the Governor and are intimate with him. I merely throw this out as a suggestion.

The PRESIDENT. I do not know who are members of the State Board. Secretary SEILER. Will you increase the number to five?

Mr. BARTO. I think that a very good suggestion. I do not know of any member here who is a member of the State Board, except Mr. Keller. Mr. KELLER. Mr. Hiester.

Mr. McCONKEY. And Mr. McDowell.

The PRESIDENT. I would appoint, as that committee, Mr. Landreth, Mr. McDowell, Mr. Branson, Mr. Keller, and Mr. Hiester. I think they are all members of the Executive Committee.

Mr. MACKEY. I understand this committee is to report to the Executive Committee; what action is to be taken in reference to this matter?

The PRESIDENT. That is the understanding.

Mr. SPEER offered the following:

Resolved, That the thanks of this Society are due to Hon. James Donald Cameron, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, one of our members, for obtaining, for our use, from the United States Treasury Department, one of the four complete samples of the wools of the world now obtainable in the United States.

Mr. WILHELM. I think it is due to the honorable Senator that a copy of the resolutions be sent to him by the Secretary.

Colonel TAGGART. That follows as a matter of course.

The PRESIDENT. Shall that be incorporated in the resolution?

Colonel TAGGART. As a matter of course.

The resolution, as amended, was thereupon unanimously adopted. Secretary SEILER. I have a letter here from Eastburn Reeder, which I will read:

RABBIT RUN FARM, NEW HOPE, BUCKS COUNTY, PA.,

12 Mo., 16, 1884.

D. W. SEILER, Secretary Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society: At a recent meeting of the Solesbury Farmers' Club, I was directed to make inquiry of you when the medals and diplomas awarded the club at the late State fair would be forwarded. The club would also like to have sent them a list of the premiums that were awarded and paid them at the last State fair.

They also desire to have their claim for the Society premiums on wheat, oats, and corn, amounting to one hundred and ten dollars, to be brought before the annual meeting of the Society, and action taken thereon.

Truly yours,

EASTBURN REEDER." Secretary SEILER. I think there was a Committee on Display of Grains. On that committee, I think, are Messrs. Rhey and McDowell, and I would suggest this matter be referred to that committee for action. If I recollect aright, at the time of making the award, Mr. McDowell and Mr. Rhey came to the conclusion that the display of Mr. Wilson was far superior to that of the Solesbury Club. I think that is the reason.

Our method of ex

Mr. McDowELL. That was not all of our reason. amining the grain on exhibition was to take a sample from each bag and make a thorough examination by a glass. Two of the samples were found eaten with weevil, and we thought that very much against the exhibit. I wrote to the gentleman having charge of it-I forgot his name.

Mr. SEILER. Mr. Fells.

Mr. McDOWELL.

I wrote to this gentleman making inquiry, to know whether they were of the last year's growth, and he gave me a letter. with

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