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The discussion which followed the reading of this paper was quite 

 animated, as the spread of the insect foes of the fruit-grower seemed to 

 be alarming. 



Mr. Reed said, when the canker worm gets established in an orchard 

 the owner may as well bid good-bye to his orchard, as it will not pay to 

 fight these worni.->. He had been fighting them in New Jersey ever since 

 he was a boy, and could make little progress against them. 



Mr. Slade said that we Americans are j)ersistent fighters, and we 

 will not let the ranker worm whip us. 



Messrs. Foster, Budd, Spafford, and others, took part in this discus- 

 sion, but as the facts and arguments brought out were verv similar to 

 those already published in this volume, they are omitted here. [See dis- 

 cussions on pages 102-104; also, reports upon entomology.] 



Mr. Bi'Di) explained the device for catching the canker worm, 

 invented and used by Mr. James Smith, of Des Moines, Iowa, as follows : 

 A strip of heavy j)a])er. about ten inches wide, is put around the body of 

 the tree, with the lower edge eight or ten inches above the surface, and 

 tacked to the tree : the paper is then coated with coal tar, a mound of 

 earth thrown up around the trunk of the tree, covering the lower edge of 

 the paper; after which the upjjer edge of tlie paper is rolled over out- 

 ward, but not so as to come in contact with the mound. The earth keeps 

 the tar from soon drying up, and the inverted trough of tarred paper pre- 

 vents the worms from ascending the tree. 



On motion, the meeting adjourned to iialf past one o'clock this 

 .ifternoon. 



SECOND DAY. 



AFTERNOON SE.SSION. 



The Socicl} ( :onvene(.l at half past one o'clock. 



The President called upon Mr. A. Bryant, Sr. , of Committee on 



Forest and Ornamental Trees, for a report, which he presented, reading as 



follows : 



kKl'OKT ON TIMI!EkI'I..\NriN(.. 



In the present condition of forest culture in Northen Illinois, a 

 report upon timber-|)lanting can offer but little that has not already been 



