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formerly, it is quite consoling to know that the warfare against it has 
also become more genera]. Almost every fruit-grower has at last come 
to the forced conclusion that warfare against this insect, at least, has 
become an absolute necessity, and has accordingly instituted a rigor- 
ous fight against it. The arsenious spray is the almost universal 
remedy resorted to with our fruit-growers here in Nebraska, as it is 
in other localities. Either London purpleor Paris green are the poisons 
used, and where applied properly always result favorably to the or- 
chardist. 
THE GREEN-STRIPED MAPLE WORM. 
The Green-striped Maple-worm (Anisota rubicunda) appeared quite 
numerously again in the towns and cities of Nebraska, and has done 
much injury to the Soft Maples (Acer saccharinum) growing along their 
streets. Here in Lincoln, the first or spring brood of larve was suffi- 
ciently numerous to defoliate many of the largest trees before they 
had become fully matured, and in that manner proved to be quite 
effectual towards self-extermination. Many of the larve actually 
starved to death; while others were so weakened from starvation that 
they either died in the chrysalis state, or else were so exhausted when 
they emerged as moths that there was but little egg-laying for a sec- 
ond brood. Some of the neighboring cities and towns were less for- 
tunate, and had a much more plentiful: fall brood of the larve, and 
hence will be well supplied with the insect next spring unless something 
unforeseen prevents it. 
Considerable has been done inthe way of remedies by the citizens of 
Lincoln against the second brood. Many of the moths were gathered 
and destroyed before they~had time to deposit their eggs and later on 
in the season spraying the trees with London purple and Paris green 
was resorted to with good results. 
While a moderately dry summer usually has the tendency to increase 
the number of most of our injurious insects, several such years imme- 
diately following one another have the opposite effect. So it has been 
with the summer which has just closed. The drought was so very 
marked that even the more hardy insect life was sensibly affected by 
its severity. Such species as had been favored by the scarcity of their 
more frail parasites during several years of moderate drought, this year 
were themselves, to a certain degree, sensibly affected by its continu- 
ance and severity. 
LOCUSTS OR GRASSHOPPERS. 
Locusts or grasshoppers of several species. were quite numerous in 
certain localities, especially in cities away from the destructive influ- 
ence of fowls and such other predaceous animals as are always at hand 
in the country ready to “ gobble up” various insects. These locusts did 
some damage, of course, but not nearly so much as was done by them 
