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those using the arsenical preparations against their application late in 

 the season, as in an examination of apples, treated about the first of 

 September, a dangerous amount of the green was found still to adhere 

 to them when ripe, although they had been repeatedly washed by 

 heavy rains. Of course, no domestic animals, not even chickens, could 

 with safety be admitted to an orchard in which these insecticides were 

 used. Some injury to the foliage is inevitable where the applications 

 are frequent, and it is doubtful if trees, treated during successive sea- 

 sons, would be very long lived. In view of these drawbacks on the 

 best remedy yet known, we cannot conclude that the doom of the 

 canker worm and codling moth is settled, and there is consequently 

 still room for invention and discovery as to the best methods of pre- 

 serving our orchards from their attacks. 



THE PLUM CUROULIO. 



Of stone fruits — speaking for a large section of the State, only the 

 •common red cherry and a few of the hardier plums yielded average 

 crops ; and for lack of the peach, sweet cherry, apricot, etc., the plum 

 curculio was compelled to perpetuate its kind by means of fruits, which 

 ordinarily it seldom injures to any extent. The Red cherry, however, 

 swells too suddenly and is too juicy to suit the taste of the larvsB and 

 I have seldom succeeded in rearing those found in this fruit. 



A large proportion of the AVild goose and Chickasaw plums, which 

 are generally almost exempt from attack, were stung-and dropped from 

 the tree ; but although the larv'ne seemed perfectly healty in their 

 development, I did not obtain a single beetle from a large number 

 which I consigned to the rearing jar. 



SMALL FEUITS. 



Berries of all kinds yielded abundantly and there was no general 

 complaint of insect destruction. 



Strawberries in St. Louis county suffered considerably early in the 

 season from cutworms and white grub, and later in the summer an un- 

 usually large proportion of the leaves were folded and turned brown by 

 the strawberry Leaf-roller {Phoxoj)teris comptana^ Frol.), an insect be- 

 longing to the family Tortricidoe of the Order Lepidoptera. The larva, 

 which does the damage, measures, when full grown, less than half an 

 inch in length and is about as thick as a medium sized knitting needle. 

 It is of a dull olive green color, somewhat hairy, with a shining, horny, 

 brown head. It folds the leaf upper surface in, fastening the edges 



