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  Nov. 29 Jar of "Curculio" plums examined. Plums = 183 [[5 tally marks]] dead Curculio found among them. Sand full of perforations when curculio had ascended. [[5 + 5 + 5 + 1 tally marks]] dead (immature) under the sand.
  Plums deposited June 24 [[strikethrough]] & subsequently [[/strikethrough]], both this & following jar, many subsequently added to lst. jar from garden plums.

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  "Prunicida" plums examined. Plums 16 [[?]] 5 Scarce any of these bored (1 only observed); almost all of 1st lot were bored. Several had split open. Shells of all or both lots soft & easily broken. No Curculios of any kind found.

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  Plums (promiscuous) gathered July 27.Plums = 243, tolerably moist now; the others [[underline]] very [[/underline]] dry. Shells quite hard. 1 Curculio among sand.

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  Carried down cellar
  Jars (large) 1 with fungus & larvae [[image]] (coleopt.?) from S. Illinois + tin pot with "Tenthr. green larvae on pear, Mass. June " (cocoons stuck to side of pot near top.)

  Jars (large) 1 with "Cherry Luda, all gone under Aug 4." (nothing but sand)

  Jar  (smaller) 1 with leaves in it. Plum Lyda.

  Jar  (tall)  "Troch. polistiforme Harr. Ky
       + 3 Curculio larvae from Caryae fallax July 19
       + Syrphid. larvae from Rhois Dr. Fitch
  
  1 quinine bottle (from Egypt) "1 lipid. pupa (datana ministra?) (apple roots. 2 [[?]] tachina puparium. 3

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Syrphus puparium (or lara) on Pemphigus pyri. Came out [[underline]] Syrphus [[/underline]] May 23.

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  Prof. Turner told me at State fair that he had had grapes bored. [[strikethrough]]

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 Dr. G. E. Kimball, of Iowa City, Iowa (met on Cars) recommended me to apply to the following, as very intelligent men: -- J. L. Budd, Shellsburg, Benton Co, Iowa, who finds the following good against Barklice; water 80partws, Benzole & soap 20 parts. Also to Captn. J. Matthew, Knoxville, Iowa, who inverts earth under plum-trees, 

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  & rams it hard, & finds that [[underline]] on alternate trees [[underline]] thus treated the Curculio is headed off.

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Baker of Cobden finds salt good to kill [[underline]] Aphis [[?ssicae]] [[/underline]] & does not hurt cabbage. He has seen Curculio in the window in the winter (Jan. or Febr.) Holcomb has see it under loose bark of pear-tree in winter (Feb.)

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"Soot will kill catworms, & wireworms, either that from turf, coal or wood, but that from coal the strongest. (Jas. Flimm, an English gardener from Whitehaven in Cumberland, now resident as Boss mule-driver at Coal-mine near Duquoin.)

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Locust year in West Virginia in 1867 (anon.)

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Spirits of Hartshorn will destroy young caterpillar nests. [[symbol]] 1 go over 2000 trees. (anon.)
Ithyc. novebors. infests Pear badly (Parker Earle.)

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Transcription Notes:
Trochilium polistiforme Idhycerus novebor