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has found the hellebore decoction a very satisfactory remedy for the cab- 

 bage maggots, and I have found that both the kainit and nitrate of soda 

 solutions were exceedingly fatal to many subterranean forms. 



Orange Insects form the subject of a large part of a special bulletin of 

 the Louisiana State Experiment Station, and this part is prepared by Prof. 

 H. A. Morgan. There is little that is new in this paper, which covers 

 rather more than fifty pages, but the compilation is good, and the work 

 of the insects in Louisiana is described. So, if there was little room for 

 new observation on pests that have been so well studied by Hubbard, 

 Comstock and others, yet the work is far from being a compilation merely, 

 and will be most useful to the Citrus growers in Louisiana, for whom it 

 is especially intended. It is to be much regretted that both paper and 

 presswork of the pamphlet are exceedingly poor. 



The Insect Pests of the Tobacco are very incidentally treated in Bulletin 

 No. 44, of the Alabama Station, by Mr. A. J. Bondurant, where they are 

 reduced to the " Cut worm" and the " Horn worm." Both are figured, 

 and I very much regret that I am unable to reproduce the picture of the 

 "Cut worm," which is an artistic curiosity, or an entomological mon- 

 strosity, or both. No better remedies than digging out the one, and 

 picking off the other are recommended, though the poisoned bait traps 

 for the "Cut worm" and the poisoned "Jimpson Weed" flowers for the 

 Sphinx have proved very successful. 



The Insect Enemies of Small Grains are treated by Mr. Lawrence Bruner, 

 in the annual report of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture for 1893, 

 and, as usual, Mr. Bruner has done his work well, even though it is com- 

 pilation in very great part. The tedium of entomological literature is 

 somewhat relieved by the attractive frontispiece illustrating a grasshopper 

 orchestra singing the well-known ballad " In this wheat by-and-bye." 



The Classification of Insects and their Relation to Agriculture. This is 



the title of Bulletin 28 from the Minnesota Station, and its author is Dr. 

 Lugger. The Bulletin is very popularly written, and is very largely a 

 picture book. The definitions that are given of the various divisions are 

 of the most general possible description, and are in themselves insufficient 

 to give even an idea of the creatures to which they are known to be ap- 

 plied. Supplemented by the pictures they become intelligible, and prob- 

 ably some information will be gained by the farmers that can be persuaded 

 to read it through. Following the descriptive part of the Bulletin we 

 have a chapter on applied or practical entomology, in which both natural 

 and artificial methods of destroying insects are described. There is no- 

 where a very definite statement of exactly what cases are adapted for 

 natural or artificial methods, and altogether the Bulletin is very general 

 and indefinite. It is not quite such a one as we have been in the habit of 

 expecting from Dr. Lugger, and lie certainly does not do himself justice. 

 There are few points that are absolutely inaccurate, but one matter is of 

 some importance not only to the farmers of Minnesota, but to those of 



