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I have known a straw colored worm to go up apple trees at night 

 and kill some trees outright by removing every bud. I have killed 

 three and four dozen of them at a time under each apple tree. It 

 seems to me that showering trees v»'ith poison is the most effectual way, 

 but I have made hog and horse pasture of my fruit orchards, and feai 

 the effect of poison on the grass. 



I doubt the profit of hogs in the orchards. The general use of 

 poison will surely be followed by accidents, but what else can we do ? 



So long as we walk contrary to the "weightier matters of the law' 

 we must fight "the great armies" God sends among us and eat our 

 bread and fruit in the sweat of our face. "Because thou hast 

 hearkened to voice of thy wife," etc. You know how it reads. 



A word to the wise, etc. — Fools won't be converted, though you 

 fcray them in a mortar. 



Regretting my inability to be with you, etc., I remain 



Yours, 



L. O.AMSDEN. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Hynes spoke of such a worm as described in the paper being 

 found in rotten roots of trees. 



H. Spearc2i[\Qd. attention to a twig borer. 



Prof* Taft thought these and similar twig borers would not be apt 

 to become numerous. 



Report of Committee onn Secretary's Report was presented by Mr. 

 Holman and adopted. 



Moved that remaining speeches be limited to five minutes; 

 adopted. 



By motion the report of the Committee on Report was reconsid- 

 ered ; the question relating to appropriating fifty dollars for books for 

 the society discussed, and after being struck from the report, the report 

 was adopted. 



