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dant in maple. The chinch bug has been reported in meadows in north- 

 western New York. The San Jose" scale seems to be dying out in New 

 York, except in the southeastern portion of the State, which may be due 

 to the abnormally low temperature of the past Winter. Gossyparia itlun 

 has been found in Albany County. 



Mr. Fernald states that he has found one pound of Paris green in one 

 hundred' and fifty gallons of water sufficient to kill the canker worm, and 

 this is the proportion almost universally used in Massachusetts. 



Mr. Webster says that this will not serve in Ohio, but he explains this 

 by saying that the application was made against nearly full-grown cater- 

 pillars. In their earlier stages the larva? would probably be killed by the 

 weak mixture. The bud worm has been very abundant in Ohio, and 

 Euphoria inda has been found attacking peaches. 



Mr. Kirkland said the army worm had been seriously injurious in many 

 parts of Massachusetts, and had damaged a large portion of the cranberry 

 crop. He writes, September 3d, that at Hingham, Mass., a third brood 

 of army worms was then threatening to be as destructive as any that pre- 

 ceded it. He found them at that time of all stages from quite young to 

 nearly mature. ' 



Mr. Smith said that the army worm had appeared in New Jersey in some 

 numbers, but only in isolated localities here and there It was not always 

 the same brood that did the damage. The first brood seemed to be the 

 injurious in one of the southern counties of the State, and reports were 

 received as early as May. In Middlesex County it was not until July that 

 a locality was reported, but this was confined to a small portion of a single 

 field. Yet later, in early August, a single field near Egg Harbor City was 

 reported as being injured. The new asparagus beetle, C. \i-punctata is 

 gradually spreading in New Jersey and now covers a considerable portion 

 of the southern part of the State. 



Mr. Johnson reported the first brood of the army worm destructive in 

 Illinois. He had noticed that they were suffering during the middle of 

 June from some fungous or bacterial disease that killed a very large 

 number of them. This disease is being studied by Prof. Forbes. 



(To be continued.) 



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