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on the "two year plan," owing to the depredations of the weevil, and 

 who now prefer the "one crop plan," would in all probability obtain 

 better financial results by substituting the "fall planting plan" for the 

 "one crop plan." The "two year system" of strawberry culture is to 

 be preferred when possible as being the most desirable plan of the three. 

 The question of hill planting and the "four or five year plan" has many 

 points in its favor, but it is not fully considered here. 



(12.) Rotation of crops, while being strictly in accordance with 

 the best agricultural practice, is strongly advocated against this weevil. 

 From popular opinion, red clover is suited to follow strawberries, fol- 

 lowed successively by potatoes and rhubarb. Growers with large acre- 

 age, under judicious management, can combat the effects of this weevil 

 satisfactorily with proper rotation alone, assisted by general cultural 

 methods, but the smaller growers of ten acres or less, more or less con- 

 gregated into communities, as they usually are, will not find rotation 

 the same comparative benefit as the large grower, although of course 

 a benefit will be noticed. It may be tentatively stated that not more 

 than one acre in ten should be down to strawberries in an infested 

 locality so as to provide for a system of proper rotation. 



The Honoil-\ble Mr. Ellison, Minister of Agriculture, offered 

 a few encouraging remarks to the meeting on their re-formation and 

 evident progress. He said that he personally had been much interested 

 in the discussions which he had been listening to, and he only wondered 

 that more people were not active Entomologists to study these ques- 

 tions on insect pests which yearly cost the province so much. He 

 assured the Society of his regard and promised to do all in his power 

 to obtain for them the necessary financial assistance. 



Mr. Wilson, Chairman, briefly thanked the Honorable Minister 

 for his kindness at being present and for his assurance of some financial 

 assistance to the Society. 



ADDRESS. 



Thomas Cunningham, Inspector of Fruit Pests. 



Ever since the creation of man, and in all ages of man on earth, 

 we have evidence from remotest antiquity that the agriculturist and 

 horticulturist have suffered enormous loss by the depredation of destruc- 

 tive insects and plant diseases. No country in the world, as far as is 

 known, is free from this scourge. Animals, including man, and plants 

 suffer from infection. 



