AMERICAN ORAKBERRY GROWERS 1 ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION HELD AT THE COURT HOUSE, 

 TOMS RIVER, N. J., SEPTEMBER 4, 1886. 



ABSTRACT FROM THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS, BY SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE 



SOCIETY. 



The Seventeenth Annual Convention of the American Cranberry Growers' 

 Association met as above. In the absence of the President, Hon. Theodore 

 Budd, First Vice President, presided. 



There was a large attendance of growers, and the meeting was one of unu- 

 sual interest. 



The minutes of the last meeting were approved, as printed, without read- 

 ing. 



The following communication was read from the President: 



Bordentown, N. J., August 31, 1886. 

 Hon. A. J. Rider, Trenton, N. J. : 



My Dear Sir, — I am now suffering from a severe attack of autumnal 

 catarrh and asthma, so that I am compelled to remain quietly at home instead 

 of following my inclinations, and meet with you in convention on the 4th 

 proximo. As a new enemy to the cranberry has made its appearance during 

 the past season, I will ask you to communicate to our Association the facts in 

 regard to this new-comer which have fallen under my notice. It is another vine 

 worm, which made its appearance in June last, on a new bog at River Head, 

 New York. When fully grown it is half an inch in length, and of a jet black 

 color. It constructs for itself a house consisting of a web intermingled with 

 grains of sand, sometimes on the surface of the ground, at others just beneath 

 it. To this it repairs during the day, coming out at night to feed on the vines. 

 It possesses greater vitality than either the anchylopera or the tortrix, a few 

 specimens haviug been kept under water for fifteen hours, and came out 

 alive. We have another test. The bog on which they occurred was flowed, a 

 part of it twenty-four hours, and another portion forty-eight hours. On the 

 former they re-appeared in August, but not on the latter. I sent a few of the 

 worms to the Entomological Bureau at Washington, and have been informed 

 that it is unknown to them. The parent moth has not yet been noticed. From 



