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New Jersey Stations, Special Bulletin K, February 28, 1890 (pp. 43). 



The insects injuriously affecting cranberries, J. B. Smith 

 (illustrated). — This includes a review of field notes made by the author 

 in 1889, and illustrated accounts of the following insects, with sugges- 

 tions as to remedies: the black-headed cranberry worm {Ehopohota vac- 

 ciniana, Pack.), yellows-headed cranberry worm {Teras vacciniivorana., 

 Pack.), cranberry fruit worm {Acrobasis vaccinii), tip worm [Cecidomyia 

 vaccina, Smith), cranberry scale {Aspidiotus, sp.), grasshoppers, locusts, 

 and cranberry leaf hoppers. 



The bulletin is illustrated with 26 figures, of which 18 are original. 

 Reference is made to previous studies by the author on insects infesting 

 cranberries in New Jersey and Massachusetts, published in Bulletin No. 

 4 of the Division of Entomology of this Department, and in the Annual 

 Report of this Department for 1884. 



New Mexico Station, Bulletin No. 1, April, 1890 (pp. 4). 



General information regarding the station, H. Hadley, M. 

 A. — The Territorial legislature of New Mexico at its session of 1889 

 established an agricultural college at Las Oruces and connected with it 

 an experiment station in accordance with the provisions of the act of 

 Congress of March 2, 1887. The citizens of Mesilla Valley donated to 

 the college and station a farm, part of which was in cultivation accord- 

 ing to primitive methods, wlule the rest was virgin soil. As irrigation 

 must be largely used here it will require much labor to prepare the farm 

 for experimental uses. " A portion of the farm is mesa land lying above 

 irrigation level, and was covered with the native mesquite and tornillo. 

 For ages it has received but the scanty rain-fall of arid regions. This 

 portion has been cleared of its rubbish, and reveals a soil of apparently 

 great fertility. 



" Water can be had at a depth of 50 feet, and we are now sinking 

 wells and putting in hoisting apparatus, hoping soon to show, on a small 

 scale to be sure, the superior quality of the soil. The farm has been 

 substantially fenced, some irrigating ditches constructed, much leveling 

 done, and buildings are now being erected for the accommodation of 

 the station. The land is being tilled to common crops to bring it ' into 

 subjection.' This is all preparatory work, but it is necessary work." 



Attention is called to the peculiar conditions existing in New Mexico 

 because of its great area and varying elevation and the great variety of 

 its soils and climates. This station evidently has before it a large but 

 exceedingly interesting task to aid in developing the agricultural pos- 

 ^bilities of this region. 



