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Mrs. Ray: At what time did you discover it? 



Mrs. Kennedy: I would go out in the garden in the morning 

 and find a lot of bushes cut off. 



Judge Moyer: Was it done in the fall? 



Mrs. Kennedy: No, it was done when they were about half 

 grown. Last year I lost a good many on account of an insect 

 working in the stem. 



Mrs. Ray: I wonder if it was not the dor bug. Sometimes 

 it is very destructive. 



Mr. Bray ton: What is the dor-bug? 



Mr. Harris: It is the common beetle or Jane bug that is so 

 thick in May and June. Sometimes they are so thick they cut 

 off all the foliage from the trees. I should not be surprised if 

 it was the dor-bug or the cut worm. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON OBITUARY. 



J. S. HARRIS AND A. K. BUSH. 

 [Made at the last Annual Meeting.] 



No report of this committee was handed in at the annual meeting 

 of this society held in December, 1895. Since the annual meeting 

 held at Lake City, in January, 1895, we have received notices of the 

 decease of members as follows: 



Rev. George Rogers, died on the 11th of December, 1884, at his 

 home in Money Creek, Minn., aged about seventy-one years. He 

 was born in England in 1823, and came to America in 1873, settling 

 in Houston Co. He was a minister of the gospel and preached to 

 the Baptist church of Money Creek. He took a lively interest in 

 horticulture and devoted his leisure hours to the cultivation of 

 small fruits, and was for a number of years a member of our soci- 

 ety. 



Prof. C. V. Riley, died at Washington, D. C, on September 14th, 

 1895, from injuries received by being thrown from a bicycle. He 

 was in the high prime of manhood, being within four days of the 

 fifty-second year of his age. Although not a member of this soci- 

 ety or a professional horticulturist, he was an eminent entomologist, 

 and that science is very closely identified with pomoflogy. He was 

 English by birth, but came to this country before he had reached 

 the age of twenty years. He had studied natural history from boy- 

 hood. He was made state entomologist of Missouri in 1868, and in 

 1878 chief of the Bureau of Entomology in the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, which place he occupied about a j^ear before 

 his death. His services were of inestimable value to fruit growers 

 everywhere. 



Ephram W. Bull died at Concord, Mass., September 20th, 1894, in 

 the nintieth year of his age. He was born in Boston, on March 4th, 

 1806, and some ten years later settled in the town of Concord. The 

 Concord grape, which has proved the grape for the million^ and haa 



