INDEX. 



537 



Spider, red, 4, 13, 16, 17, 465, 474 



citrus, 5, 14, 51, 231, 469, 473 

 Spiders, 1, 4, 271 

 Spilosoma virginica, 389 

 Spinach leaf-miner, 331 

 Spined soldier-bug, 269, 357, 458 

 spiuiconiis, 2 

 spircvoides, 196, 378 

 Spittle insects, 24, 59, 501 

 Sphcciiia, 42 

 Spiny tachina fly, 330 

 splendens, 129. 371 

 Splitworm, 446 

 Sponge, 380 



Sporotrichum globuliferum, 370 

 Spotless fall web-worm, 390 

 Spotted blister beetle, 292 



cucumber beetle, twelve, 271, 272, 

 273, 274 



obscure, 273 



western, 270, 271, 272, 273, 

 274 

 milkweed bug, 206 

 mite, two, 14, 16, 231, 469, 473 

 root fly, 340 

 tree-borer, 252 

 Spray hose, 479 



nozzles, 478, 479 

 pumps, 477 

 Spraying, vii, 477 

 equipment, 477 

 summer, 468 

 thoroughness, 479 

 Sprays. 41, 53, 57, 63, 64, 67, 71, 75, 83, 

 108, 120, 122, 124, 128, 136, 140, 142. 

 146, 154, 155, 157, 161, 163, 166, 167, 

 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 180, 184, 190, 

 191, 194, 196, 198, 204, 205, 207, 209, 

 212, 219, 241, 247, 250, 256, 259, 261. 

 263, 266, 268, 271, 275, 276, 277, 279, 

 280, 281, 284, 292, 293, 299, 300, 303, 

 311, 317, 318, 338, 341, 347, 350, 357, 

 361, 383, 388, 390, 391, 392, 405, 407, 

 409, 412, 416, 417, 420, 431. 437, 441, 

 442, 448, 451, 45-4, 457, 461, 462, 463 

 application of, 477 

 arsenical, 463 

 contact, 463 

 dusts, 472, 478 

 repellents, 463 

 Spreading insects, 502 

 sprctus, 43 



Spring cankerworm, 416 

 Spring-tails, 24 

 spuria, 119 



Squash bug, 201, 202 

 Squash-vine borer, 429 



Stalk borer, potato, 303 



State Insect a ry, 229, 355, 364, 458 



Steam heating, 307 



sterilizing, 495 

 Steel-blue grapevine flea-boetle, 266 



ladybird beetle, 154, 181, 184, 185, 

 188, 226 

 Steiroxys melanopleura, 33 

 Stem gall-fly. wistaria. 347 



sawfly, western mass. 351 

 Stenopelmatus irregularis, 37 

 Stephens, E., vi 

 Stethorus vagans, 14, 16, 17, 231 



picipes,. 14, 16, 17 

 Steward, F., 449 

 Stewart, John P., 468 

 Sticky boards, 256, 476 



rope, 476 



shields, 63. 275 

 Stiretrus anchofago, 269 

 Storehouse pests, 481 



fumigating. 481 

 Straw-worm, wheat. 369 

 Strawberry flea-beetle, 266 



t li rips, 50 

 Strcpsiptera, 24 

 Striped armyworm, yellow, 401 

 icucumber beetle, eastern, 273 

 western, 273, -7 7 



datura beetle, 276 



flea-beetle, pale, 285 

 turnip, 282 

 western, 282, 283 



ladybird beetle, 227 



leaf-beetle, two-, 277 

 gtupida, 216 

 stygica, 293 

 subcrinita, 263 

 Submersion, 426 

 subtcssellatus, 139 

 Sugar, 381, 501 

 Sugar-beet leaf-beetle, 278 

 Sulphate of zinc, 476 

 Sulphide, iron. 469 

 Sulphur. S, 11. 17. 58, 424. 473. 474 



and lime, 473 



atomic. S, 14. 16, 17, 58, 474 



diatomic. 474 



flowers of, 466, 473, 474 



lime-, 8, 14, 15, 16, 53, 55, 120, 157. 

 170, 180, 184, 190, 424, 439, 445, 

 465, 469 



commercial, 468 

 flour paste and, 468 

 home-made, 466 



milled, 8, 58, 474 



sublimed. 



See host index in the front for all references to plants. 

 Figures in heavy black type refer to articles or notes. 



