REPORT 



STATE OF NEW-YOKK. 



By Asa Fitch, M. D. 



Executive Committee of the New-York State Agricultural Society: 

 I herewith present a second Report on the Noxious and other 

 Insects of the State, continuing the account of those species which 

 are injurious to fruit and forest trees, and commencing those 

 which are injurious to field crops. The Report heretofore pre- 

 sented has been so favorably received, and has made the plan 

 and character of the work in which I am occupied so generally 

 known, that no explanations upon this subject are required. 

 Nor is it necessary that I should say a word upon the importance 

 of this Survey of the Economical Entomology of our State, our 

 citizens being universally aware of its value, and of the benefits 

 which will result to agriculturists, orchardists, and others 

 from being informed how they may manage their crops, treat 

 their fruit trees, &c, to shield them from the depredations of in- 

 sects. Yet but a small part of the injury which we are sustain- 

 ing from this class of creatures is at present known. Many of 

 them are so minute, so seemingly insignificant and powerless, 

 and conduct their operations where they are so concealed from 

 view, that the damage which they occasion is currently imputed 

 to other causes, and the real culprit is never suspected. Thus, 

 it is commonly supposed that the reason why we now fail to 

 raise such crops of wheat as our lands produced when they were 

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