IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



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A P P L I E 1) E X T O :\r L G Y. 



Series A. 

 Vol. VI.] [1918. 



Emergency Entomological Service. — Entom. News, Philadelphia, xxviii, 

 no. 8, October 11*17, pp. 375-377. 



Reports of the Emergency Entomological Service of the United 

 States l)p{>artment of Agriculture record new legislation in Illinois 

 whereby the Department of Agriculture has authority to compel 

 ow^lers or other occupiers of property infested by insect pests or plant 

 diseases to take measures to arrest or prevent such damage under 

 ])enaltv of a fine. An insect pest survey and information service 

 is established under the New York Food Supply Commission, and a 

 similar survey in Ohio. Farm demonstrators are to work in prac- 

 tically every county in New Jersey and in Tennessee. In Mississippi 

 a systematic educational campaign in preparation for winter spraying 

 is to be designed by proclamation of the governor. 



The Food Production Act appropriates about £88,000 for the 

 prevention, control and eradication of insects and plant diseases 

 injurious to agriculture and the conservation and utilisation of plant 

 products. Of this nearly £30,000 is allotted to the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. The expenditure is to begin with an extensive autumn 

 campaign against the Hessian fly [Mayetiola destnictor] and attempted 

 control on a large scale of the insects injurious to stored grain and other 

 products. Winter work will include dormant tree spraying and 

 fumigation of citrus trees. 



Dubois (P.). La Lentille. [The Lentil.]— Za. Vie Agric. et Rur., Paris, 

 vii, no. 42, 20th October 1917, pp. 289-290. 



The cultivation of lentils is threatened, and in Lorraine has been 

 abandoned, owing to the attacks of a species of Bruchus. The insects 

 can be killed by placing the infested seeds in a barrel, pouring in 

 20-25 c.c. carbon bisulphide and immediately closing the bung, 

 allowing them to remain in contact with the fumes for 24 hours ; the 

 barrel should be turned several times to render the contact more 

 intimate. The adults may also be induced to leave the seeds by ex- 

 posing them to a gentle heat, and precautions must be taken against 

 sowing infested seed to prevent the further spread of this pest. 



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