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_My. Dartt in the chair. 
Final Resolutions. 
Mr. Elliot moved that a committee of three be appointed on 
final resolutions, which was carried, and the chair appointed Messrs. 
Eliott, Jewell and Grimes. 
Insect Enemies. 
The next order taken up was a discussion on insect enemies. 
m Twig Pruner. 
Mr. Harris showed a twig pruner which he had raised. It did 
considerable damage a year ago last summer. Oak branches from 
one inch in diameter to the size of a twig were cut off by it. He had 
found the larva in a twig which it had cut off and which had fallen to 
the ground. The larva then goes into the ground and comes forth 
the next season as a perfect insect, lays its eggs in the branches 
where they hatch into larva, which repeat the injury. 
Beetle in the Apple. 
Another insect, belonging to the beetle tribe, he found in the 
apple. He got the larva of this instead of the larva of the codling 
moth. He put into the bottle with the beetles hatched from these 
larva, some larva of the codling moth, and the beetles ate them up. 
The question raised was whether we have in these beetles an enemy 
of the larva of the codling moth. Another beetle he found ina 
rose bush. The rose broke down, and digging into the ground, he 
found the bush girdled. 
Borer. 
Mr. Sias showed beetles about an inch long. On a tree which 
had died suddenly he found them. The insect he had observed to 
bore its whole length into the tree in 2 to 5 minutes. 
Grape Curculio. 
Mr. Harris spoke of the grape curculio which left its eggs in the 
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