Ee ANNUAL REPORT. 
grape. Prot. Riley says these should be watched and the stung 
specimen picked off and destroyed to prevent the multiplication of 
the insect. 
Summer Meeting. 
The committee on summer meeting then reported as follows: 
We submit that we think it expedient to hold a summer meeting 
and exhibition some time between the 15th of June and 10th of 
July, at the State University. ; , 
The report was accepted and adopted. 
Grape Borer. 
Mr. Smith mentioned a square headed beetle found in the grape 
vine. It entered above a bud and worked down inside the vine, 
killing it. A neighbor had two hundred killed in this way. 
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Communications, &c. 
The Secretary moved that all communications prepared for and 
not read at this meeting be submitted to the Executive Committee 
for approval before insertion in the Transactions. The motion was 
carried. 
Blight. 
It was then moved to take up the subject of blight but the Society 
resolved to defer it. 
Co-operation of County Societies. 
Mr. Elliot moved to take up the discussion ‘* How shall we secure 
the more active co-operation of County Societies,” which was car- 
ried. 
Mr. Smith :—We can only do it by each member being a commit- 
tee of one to organize a local society in his own county. The mem- 
bers thereof will at the same time learn much from each other, while 
they increase the usefulness of this Society. - 
Mr. Elliot :—Each county society is entitled to fifty reports of 
the State Society, and if a county society can’t be formed at once 
then let some neighborhood form a society and call it a County 
