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ducecl. The state cannot do everything, as some would 

 have it, regulate our meat and drink and hours of labor. 

 Dummer Academy had lately adopted an improving ele- 

 ment in the admission of girls, and there were no public 

 institutions to-day for young ladies so good as private 

 ones. 



Dr. Jeremiah Spofford agreed with the last speaker 

 that all the business of education should not be done by 

 the state. 



Messrs. Putnam and Broavn here reopened the ques- 

 tion of injurious insects. Mr. Putnam said that science 

 was equal to the destruction of many kinds of insects 

 that prey on the crops of the farmer, and if farmers 

 would only work together they could exterminate their 

 insect enemies. For instance, printer's ink is a sure ex- 

 terminator of the canker worm. Printer's ink has exter- 

 minated many evils, and here was one more it could cope 

 with, if all the farmers in a given section would apply it 

 to their trees. Here was one case at least where the 

 state should interfere and make a law requiring every 

 man to assist in abatinsr the canker worm nuisance who 

 had a tree liable to be attacked by these insects. 



Mr. Brown replied that he could take care of the can- 

 ker worm and caterpillar, but he would give a gold medal 

 to the man who would eradicate other insects which infest 

 his farm. 



On motion of Mr. Putnam : 



Voted, That the thanks of the Institute be tendered to 

 Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer G. Parsons, the Principals of the 

 Academy, for their courtesy and kindness so generously 

 extended to the party during the day. 



Adjourned. 



