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regret that Dr. Le Baron is behind the times in regard to these insects. 

 I do not know that I wish to say any thing more. 



Mr. Bourland — Is that canker worm the inse( t which has destroyed 

 the forest trees of late years ? 



Mr. Riley — No, sir; there has been a worm of an entirely brown 

 color in Indiana, which preys upon nearly all forest trees. The moth is 

 a pure white — not gray like the canker worm. 



Mr. Bourland — I refer to the canker worm that lias been so de- 

 structive to the elm trees. 



Mr. Rilev — Oh, yes ! that is it. 



Mr. Greene — Have you had your attention called to a worm which 

 has devastated the clover, and, in some cases, the cornfields in Tennessee, 

 and then fed on every thing around. The past year it stripped the peach 

 trees almost completely bare. 



Mr. Riley — No, sir ; my attention has not been called to it, althougli 

 I think I have seen some account of it in the newspapers. There is the 

 "hateful grasshopper" to which I think Mr. Le Baron refers. He objects 

 to that name. I think it is a good name. The flat-headed borer is far 

 more injurious than the round-headed borer in Missouri. 



Mr. Hay — Three years ago, we had six acres of potatoes, and four 

 acres were badly affected by the potato bug. I got five pounds of Paris 

 green to apply to them ; but I found these soldier bugs were so numer- 

 ous, and were destroying the potato bugs so rapidly, that I did not apply 

 the Paris green, and there was not a potato bug left in two weeks. But 

 there is a long small beetle, with red legs, which gets hold at the back of 

 the head, and eats the head off the potato bug, in the first place. Now 

 the soldier beetle will take them anywhere, and suck them as dry as a 

 chip. I frequently go over to a creek near by, and collect these army 

 bugs, and I think they have about destroyed the potato bug with us. 



Mr. Riley — I have seen a potato field in which the true parasite of 

 the potato bug was so numerous that it looked as though a hundred 

 swarms of bees had been set loose ; and there was not a potato bug to be 

 seen, nor a larva. 



Mr, Hay — I think the grasshopper spoken of by Mr. Greene is our 

 own grasshopper. They are very severe on tomatoes ; four acres of clover 

 they completely stripped, and they took all our sweet corn. They stripped 

 the leaves from the apple and pear trees, and flowers, and then got on the 

 beets. 



Mr. McAfee — I am told by a gentleman who lives in the near vicin- 

 ity, that there came a flock of these " hateful grasshoppers" on wings of 



