Bulletin 133. April, 1897. 



Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 



ITHACA, N.Y. 



ENTOnOLOQICAL DIVISION^ 



THE 



Army-worm 



IN NEW YORK. 



"June 27, 1743. There are millions of worms, in armies, appearing and threatening 

 to cut off every green thing ; people are exceedingly alarmed." 



" July I, 1743. Days of fasting are kept in one place and another, on account of the 

 worms." Extracts from the Journal of Rev. Thomas Smith, Falmouth, Me. 



By M. V. SLINQERLAND. 



PUBUSHSD BY THE DNIVBRSITY, 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



1897. 



