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hitherto been, through countless ages, aTid must forever continue to be, 

 harnioniously operative on our globe. 



Dr. Peck asked if there was any remedy to get rid of the caterpillar that 

 is destroying the dwarf pear trees. 



Dr. Trimble recommended the care of birds around our gardens. 



Adjourned. 



John W. Chauders, Secretary. 



June 2, 1863. 

 Mr. Nathaniel Hawkhurst in the chair. 



Cotton and Strawberries in Illinois. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker, Dongola, Union county, Illinois, says: 

 "Please inform the Farmers' Club and the world that 61 bales of cotton 

 left this place a few days ago for Providence, R. I., consigned to the 

 owners, A. & W. Sprague. This cotton was bought under the direction of 

 G. Reynolds, Esq., their agent, and he pronounces the quality equal to 

 good Upland Tennessee, and his judgment is good, for he buys immense 

 quantities of cotton every year. This lot was raised in Union and a few 

 adjoining counties. The Messrs. Sprague, in buying this cotton, ofFer an 

 inducement to the farmers to plant largely, which they have done, thus 

 changing the farming of the whole country. 



" Please inform the Club also that we have been shipping strawberries 

 to northern cities since the 14th inst. Two bushels sent to St. Louis on 

 the 15th hvowghi forty-four dollars, or thirty-nine dollars free of all charges. 

 Perhaps this is the most money ever paid for two bushels of fruit grown 

 in the open air in the west. It may seem a big story, but I know it is 

 true, for I have got the money in my pocket." 



Insects Infesting Trees. 



W. H. Cutler, of Panama, Chautauqua county, N. T., sends a sample of 

 worms that appear to be likely to destroy apple orchards in that section. 

 " It attacks the young spring shoots, making cocoons of the young, tender 

 leaves, and we want to know the name of this pest and the remedy, if 

 there is any." 



Dr. Trimble. — I do not know of any practical remedy for this one of the 

 leaf-curlers which are to be found all over the country, and will continue 

 to increase so long as man makes war upon his best friends, the birds. 



H. W. Howe, of Akron, Ohio, says the trees are infested there just as 

 described by Miss Bliss, of Liberty, Wis., in her letter read May 12. He 

 says that the injury to the trees is trifling. " The insect that thus writes 

 a part of its history upon the smooth bark of the apple trees is of a light 

 green color, about one-third of an inch in length, with a flat triangular 

 face, upon the upper part of which are two prominences, from which it has 

 derived its name — the Buffalo tree-hopper, Ceresa babalus of Fabriciua. 

 The eggs are easily discoverable by the naked eye, and are frequently to 

 be found in double rows, the ends of the rows nearest to the puncture 



