68 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The washes usually aj)plied are recommended for the treatment of the 

 pest, although no formula has yet been selected as giving best results 

 at this locality. The earnest attention of fruit growers is called to the 

 pest and their aid solicited in arresting its progress. 



The peach tree and its parasites, G. McCarthy {^^orth Carolina 

 Sta. Bui. 1:30,2)2). ^Sd-308,fi(js. ^;?).— This bulletin is of a popular nature- 

 Directions for the use of insecticidal apparatus and formulas for the 

 preparation of various insecticides are given. Descriptive, life-history, 

 and remedial notes are given on the root borer, curculio. May beetles, 

 rose beetle, peach tree aphis, periodical cicada, soft scale. West Indian 

 peach scale, San Jose scale, and nematode worms. Peach yellows, 

 brown rot, i)each scab or mildew, peach leaf curl, shot-hole fungus, and 

 root rot or pourridie are described and remedies suggested. The ^g,w 

 York law in regard to yellows, black knot, and San Jose scale is quoted 

 as suggestions for a law to be adopted in I*^^orth (Jarolina. A list of the 

 varieties recommended by the State Horticultural Society is appended. 



Fruit pests, F. L. Washburn {Oregon Sta. Bid. 3s, 2^2^. 37 , figii. 14). — 

 The use of combined insecticides and fungicides for spraying produced 

 satisfactory results, and a combination of Paris green and Bordeaux 

 mixture is recommended, early applications to be made for the purpose 

 of destroying fungus spores and young larval insects. Formulas are 

 given for lime, sulphur, and salt wash, and for Bordeaux mixture. 

 Descriptive notes are given for the codling moth, San Jose scale, woolly 

 aphis, oyster-shell bark louse, Hat-headed apple borer, apple aphis, tent 

 caterpillar, corythuca, climbing cutworm, red spider, scolytid borers, 

 cicada, red-humped apple caterpillar, pocket gopher, and "digger squir- 

 rel." Annotated lists are given of insects attacking the pear, prune, 

 plum, peach, cherry, and grape. 



An entomological calendar is included showing the treatment to be 

 given orchards during each month of the year. 



Brief notes are given on the following beneficial and parasitic insects: 

 Ground beetles, tiger beetles, Podahrus comes, lady beetles, syrphus 

 flies, lace-wing ily, ant lion, ichneumon flies, and tachina flies. It is 

 urged that almost without exception birds are beneticial to horticultur- 

 ists through the destruction of the injurious insects upon which they 

 feed. 



Report of the entomologist, G. H. Perkins ( Vermont Sta. Ept. 1894, 

 pp. 119-135, figs. 10). — This report consists of notes on a number of insects 

 studied during the year, and is prefaced by some general remarks upon 

 economic entomology and the importance of more extended knowledge 

 of insects amotig farmers. Directions are given for preparing and 

 applying the more common insecticides. Under the heading of house- 

 hold pests remarks are made on the life history and treatment of 

 Dermestes lardarius, red-legged ham beetle {Corynetes rufipes), ants, 

 bedbug {Acanthia lectularia), flea, house fly, and mosquito. The pea 

 weevil {Bruclms pisi) and the bean weevil (B. obtectus) are noted, and 

 fumigation with bisulphid of carbon advised. Descriptive, life history, 



