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custs, to combat and destroy, at their own expense, both the flying insects 

 and the nymphs, and to notify the authorities promptly of the date and 

 place of oviposition. The editor of the Montevideo Times objects to this fea- 

 ture of the law, claiming that the burden on certain landlords and tenants 

 would prove ruinous, even if the locusts did not devastate the affected section. 

 Provision is made for the protection of certain birds. Violators of the Act 

 are liable to fines ranging from $10 to $500. The proceeds from fines and 

 an appropriation of $100,000 are made available for the prosecution of this 

 work. The editor of the Times very wisely calls attention to the fact that 

 this Act should be supplemented by the creation of a permanent office for 

 the study of locusts and, in particular, for devising means for controlling 

 these pests. There is certainly need of economic work in that section of 

 the world. 



Brown-tail moth, Euproctis chrpsorrhoea Linn. Nurserymen and fruit 

 growers have been considerably aroused over the reception of large numbers 

 of seedlings from Anglers, France, bearing many nests of the brown-tail 

 moth. These shipments were widely distributed in New York state and also 

 sent to other parts of the country, New Jersey, Tennessee, Iowa and Mis- 

 souri, at least, having been the destination of such packages. The New York 

 State Department of Agriculture, through its inspection force, has displayed 

 a most creditable activity in locating shipments and in insisting upon the 

 observance of rigid precautions to prevent this insect from becoming gen- 

 erally established. . All nests are removed from the stock and burned, all 

 infested stock and that in boxes where nests are found, is dipped in a mis- 

 cible oil diluted with 20 parts of water, and the packing and boxes destroyed 

 by burning. A most interesting feature is the great resistance of these 

 hibernating caterpillars. There have been a number of records of free cater- 

 pillars, that is, those not protected by nests, surviving fumigation under or- 

 dinary conditions with the usual amounts of cyanide .of potassium, namely, 

 one ounce to 100 cubic feet of space, for two hours and even for a longer 

 period. The establishment of this pest in widely separated localities can be 

 prevented onlj'- by the heartiest cooperation of all importers in adopting the 

 most stringent measures for the destruction of the caterpillars. 



This not altogether unexpected introduction is a very strong ai'gument 

 in favor of an adequate national quarantine on our eastern coast at least. 

 The amount annually expended in New England for control of the Gypsy and 

 Brown-tail Moths, insects which might have been easily excluded, would sup- 

 port such an undertaking for at least a decade. 



E. P. Felt. 



