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distributed in the infested counties describing its life-history. The 

 remedial measures advocated are the early threshing of grain, which 

 should be stored in deep tight bins in a granary away from the bam. 

 Threshed grain should be fumigated with carbon bisulphide at the rate 

 of one pint (1 pound) to each 100 bushels of grain or from 6 to 8 lb. to 

 each 1,000 cubic feet of space occupied by the grain. To prevent the 

 adults emerging and returning to the fields all infested grain should be 

 disposed of before 15th May and the barns thoroughly cleaned out. 



Whitehouse (F. C). Entomological Report.— ^/i«. Rept. Dept. 

 Agric. Alberta 1918, Edmonton, 1919, pp. 152-153. [Received 

 28th October 1919.] 



Grain Aphids and cutworms were very abundant on field crops 

 during 1918 in Alberta. Garden pests included : Euxoa ochrogasler 

 (red-backed cutworm) ; Hylemyia antiqua (onion maggot) ; Aphids ; 

 a spruce mite, which may be controlled by spraying with summer 

 strength lime-sulphur or with water under pressure ; Haltiai 

 himarginata (alder flea-beetle) ; Malacosoma disstria (forest tent 

 caterpillar) ; Western wheat-stem sawfly [Cephus occidentalis] ; sugar 

 beet webworm [Loxostege sticticalis], which caused serious damage to 

 cabbage, beets, peas, etc. ; and the red turnip beetle [Entomoscelis adoni- 

 dis], which did serious injury to cauliflowers, cabbages, turnips and 

 radishes. 



Caesar (L.). Orchard Insects in Ontario in 1919.— Canadian 

 Horticultiirist, Toronto, xlii, no. 10, October 1919, pp. 241-242. 



The codling moth [Cydia pomonella] was very abundant during the 

 year under review ; even in well-sprayed orchards the damage amounted 

 to 50% of the crop. The cherry and pear slug [Eriocampokles 

 limacina] was also very numerous. Other pests included the cigar 

 case-bearer [ColeopJiora fletcherella], against which sprays are most 

 satisfactory if applied before the blossoms burst; the pear psylla 

 [Psylh, pijncoW], agamst which a delayed dormant spray, containing 

 1 gal. of lime-sulphur to 8 or 9 gals, of water followed by the codling 

 moth spray containing 40% nicotire sulphate, proved most effective. 



LEGISLATION. 



Loi du 25 Septembre 1919 instituant des Syndicats obligatoires pour la 

 Defense contre les Sauterelles en Alg6rie.- JL d' Agric. Pratique, 

 Paris, xxxii, no. 36, 9th October 1919, pp. 725-726. 



By an amendment of the law of 24th December 1888, concerning the 

 destruction of insects, fungi, etc., the extermination of locusts in 

 Algeria will be carried out in conformity with a new law which provides 

 for the est-ihli^-liment of local syndicates, of which all cultivators of the 

 soil will be compulsory members, to ensure the universal execution of 

 proper remedial measures. The cost of such measures is to be provided 

 for by the State. 



