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The species can be easily controlled, since it is confined to one 
food plant, namely peas, and hibernates either within the seed 
or in sheltered places. 
If the peas for seed purposes are harvested early, promptly 
threshed and treated with carbon bisulfid, none of the insects will 
be able to survive; and Dr Fletcher states that if the peas 
be tightly inclosed in a paper bag, the weevils will be unable to 
escape from their prison, and, if the seed be held over till the 
second year, which may be done without injuring its germinating 
powers, all of the weevils will die, and consequently there will 
be no danger of the species propagating. This simple method 
involves little or no additional expense; and, if the large growers 
of seed peas will in turn cooperate and fumigate all of their 
stock, there should be comparatively little or no trouble from the 
species in future years. It would undoubtedly be good business 
policy for growers of peas to print on each package a statement 
that the seed has been properly fumigated; and buyers are urged 
to insist on this treatment or to apply it to seed before it is 
planted. 
Shade tree insects 
Elm leaf beetle, Galerucella luteola Mill. This serious 
enemy of elms in the Hudson river valley has inflicted consider- 
able injury during the past season, though it does not appear to 
have been quite so abundant in Albany and vicinity as in earlier 
years. It has also been reported as present in reduced numbers 
at Annandale, Dutchess co. It still ranks however as a pest of 
prime importance, and, where repressive measures, such as spray- 
ing with an arsenical poison, are not employed, many trees have 
sustained very serious injuries. The insect is gradually extend- 
ing its range in the upper Hudson and lower Mohawk valleys, as 
is evidenced by its being widely distributed and quite injurious 
at Schenectady and also by its location recently in large numbers 
at Saratoga Springs. The latter outbreak is of considerable 
interest, because it is the most northern locality where very seri- 
ous injuries have been caused by this species. It was hoped a 
few years ago that climatic conditions in this and similar local- 
ities would prevent serious depredations. This opinion has been 
refuted by its work in 1902; and it now remains to be seen 
whether the insect will prove to be seriously destructive for a 
