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Last winter we tried to find eggs upon twigs and found almost 

 none. At the meeting of the Pomological Society it was 

 thought that the aphis would not probably be abundant, but 

 this winter I found some of the eggs on a tree, and we will 

 probably have some aphis next season. 



A year ago last summer the potato beetle was not abundant. 

 A great many growers were not obliged to use poison. This 

 season, of course, they started in with the hope that it would 

 be scarce, and many of them did not poison their plants. Early 

 in the season this insect was not abundant, but late in the 

 season it seemed to increase, and the potato beetle could be 

 seen crawling everywhere, all over the garden and on potatoes 

 and other things. We can expect, therefore, that there will be 

 a great many of them next year, so potato growers should be 

 prepared to fight them. 



One characteristic thing which was very noticeable on 

 apples the past season was the great injury from the plum 

 curculio. The plum curculio makes a puncture in the skin 

 of the apple and probably lays eggs in it. As a rule, people 

 do not pay much attention to it. The apple does not fall to 

 the ground like the infested plum, but after an attack from 

 this insect it simply makes it a little irregular in shape. If 

 an apple has only one or two of these punctures it doesn't 

 hurt it much, but when the curculio attacks it so frequently, 

 so that each one of the fruit has ten or a dozen of these holes 

 in it, it does injure the shape and growth of the fruit. And 

 that is one reason, I think, why so many poor apples were 

 obtained along the southern part of the state, near the coast, 

 owing to excessive attacks of the plum curculio. This, of 

 course, can be prevented to some extent by graying our 

 apples early with poison, or soon after the blossoms fall. 



Among some of the insects which have been abundant the 

 past season are the onion maggot and the cabbage maggot. 

 These have done more harm than usual, especially in the 

 onion-growing districts of Connecticut. In many places from 



