STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 13T 



We are having the longest spell of cold weather I have seen during 

 a ten years' residence here. The ground is and has been covered with 

 enough snow for sleighing for three weeks. All kinds of produce to feed 

 stock is plenty, and stock is doing fine. Corn, twenty-five cents abushel ; 

 hay, three to four dollars per ton ; potatoes, seventy-five cents a bushel ; 

 apples, one dollar per barrel, and coal $i.8o per ton. Hog cholera pre- 

 vailing to some extent. 



Emigration has been large to Kansas last season, and prospects ahead 

 are good, provided the 'hoppers don't levy on assets in the spring. Vari- 

 ous opinions prevail here in regard to that danger. Our show of cereals 

 and fruit at the Centennial speaks for us in unmistakable language. 



Success to the farmer. I am too old to farm, but not too old to 

 write about it. J. D. MANLOVE. 



Fort Scott, Kansas. 



NOTES OF THE PLANT-LICE FOUND IN THE UNITED 



STATES. 



by cyrus thomas ph. d., state entomologist. 



Carbondale, III. 

 Prof. O. L. Barler. 



Dear Sir : I herewith submit a paper on the Plant-lice {Aphidce) for 

 the Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society. It has been 

 gotten up somewhat hastily and does not purport to be a record of per- 

 sonal observations^ but simply a statement of the present status of our 

 knowledge regarding the species found in this country. My object in sub- 

 mitting it now, is to call attention to these insects, with the hope that our 

 horticulturists, farmers and others interested may be induced to pay more 

 than ordinary attention to them, and furnish me during the coming sum- 

 mer with such new facts as they may come in possession of, as I desire to 

 devote a large portion of my next report to these insects and the Bark- 

 lice. I am satisfied that the injury caused by these diminutive pests is 

 really greater than is generally supposed, yet Dr. Fitch appears to be the 

 only American entomologist who has paid any special attention to them. 

 As will be seen, I have drawn very largely from the reports of this able 

 entomologist ; so largely, in fact, that I have not attempted to mark as 

 quotations the numerous descriptions copied therefrom. One reason for 

 this is, that in many cases I have slightly changed his language, in order 

 that it may be more easily understood by the ordinary reader, or to cor- 

 respond with some fact in my own knowledge or ascertained elsewhere. 

 I therefore take this method of making a full and general acknowledg- 

 ment of the aid I have received from this author's works. As a general 

 rule, where he is the author of the species, and no comments are added, 

 after or prefixed to the description, the latter is in great part taken from 

 his works. 



