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These insects bore into the crown and into the root, causing the 

 plant to heave from the ground in the winter time, and very frequently 

 separating it from the roots. 



You have had better opportunities of knowing them than I have, but 

 I have received some facts from Mr. Gow which make me less confident 

 of its single-broodedness. If it be single-brooded, then by destroying the 

 bed and planting anew, you will have no difficulty in destroying them ; 

 but if it should prove two-brooded, it will be more difficult to destroy. 



Mr. H. J. DuNLAP — By plowing up our old beds, do you mean that 

 they won't lay any eggs on the plants planted in April? 



Mr. Riley — I do not mean that ; but the beetles do not issue until 

 late in June, therefore, by plowing under, you would not kill a single 

 insect, but by destroying these plants by burning, you destroy all the 

 insects that are in them ; therefore you will have no borers in the new 

 vines you plant. However, the beetles will fly in from the neighborhood, 

 undoubtedly, and in the course of two years more, you may have to renew 

 again. In that way, you will never suffer seriously, as you have heretofore 

 done in some parts of this State. 



Mr. Shepherd — I want a description of the animal. 



Mr. Riley — It is a little curculio, somewhat smaller than the plum 

 curculio, perfectly smooth, cylindrical in form, and marked with brown 

 and yellowish-brown spots. It is figured in my third report, and is about 

 two-thirds the size of the common curculio, but it is perfectly smooth, and 

 marked as I have stated. It deposits its egg in the crown of the straw- 

 berry plant, and the larva enters the crown and goes to the root, and 

 sometimes into the smaller roots. 



Now, the facts that I would like are such as you could give me — that 

 is, whether you have found the larva and the pupa all the year round, and 

 whether you have ever noticed them in July, or in August, and whether 

 you have noticed them in November and at the end of the year. 



REPORT OF VICE-PRESIDENT FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. 



The Secretary next proceeded to read the report of Parker Earle, 

 Vice-President for the Seventh Distri( t, which was as follows : 



The degree of cold we suffered last winter has never been exceeded 

 but once since the invasion of this district by the orchard planters. The 

 average report of minimum temperature, at Cobden, was fourteen degrees 

 below. Nine years before it went four degrees lower. At that time the 

 damage to peach trees was considerable, but our orchards were all young 

 and vigorous, being undebilitated by exhausting crops or unnatural 



