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course they begin to eat, and, eating, they obtain what we 

 want to have them get. 



That is about the substance of all I have to say in regard 

 to the matter, gentlemen. If anybody has any question to 

 ask, which a Cape Cod man, practically concerned in the 

 thing, can answer in brief, of course I will be ready to an- 

 swer it. I came in, as I said before, without any thought of 

 addressing you, but simply to obtain information with regard 

 to these insects and the general matter of cranberry culture. 



Question. Will the doctor state distinctly whether that 

 treatment is confined to the worm that preys upon the leaves 

 only, or is it applied also to the berry worm? 



Dr. Eldridge. They try it for the berry worm, but if 

 they are pretty thoroughly successful in destroying the first 

 set, they will not be troubled so much with the second set 

 of vine fire-worms. And that is one reason for supposing 

 that they are the same thing. Those unscientific people 

 think that they are the same thing, progressively developing 

 into different forms, and one evidence of it, as they say, is 

 the fact, which they claim to be one, that if you are exceod- 

 iugly thorough in your treatment of the second set, so that 

 you kill that crop, you do not have any berry worms. They 

 think they see the result of the destruction of the second 

 crop in the non-appearance of the berry worm. I do not 

 attach a great deal of consequence to that thought. I do 

 not believe it is so myself. 



Mr. Daniel RomxD. I am interested in the description 

 given of the cranberry insects here. I have spent some time 

 during the past fall in making cranberry meadows, and I am 

 convinced, from my observations, that there are more than 

 three kinds of insects that prey upon cranberry vines. I 

 found, on overhauling some five hundred cranberry crates 

 this fall, thousands of millers, of a large size, and of a 

 grayish cast. They seemed to have been developed after the 

 cranberries had been deposited in the cranberry house. I 

 do not know what they are, but they were there, and they 

 evidently have something to do with the cranberry business. 

 I propose to look into that matter further. 



I have also discovered in the vicinity of the meadow multi- 

 tudes of very small, white millers, — more than I could begin 



