I. Notes of the Season. 



The season of 1S95, as compared with 1894, has been marked bj 

 a decided increase in the amount of damage done by certain groups 

 of insects; also, by a decrease in amount of damage caused by other 

 groups, and by the uniformity in the amount of damage done by 

 still others. 



There was a marked decrease in the amount of damage done by 

 the " Cabbage-Root Maggot," the " Cabbage Louse," and the " Corn 

 or Boll Worm." The amount of damage done by the " Colorado 

 Potato Beetle," and the " European Cabbage Worm," will average 

 well Avith the amount done last year. Although the number of 

 cabbage-worm butterflies was not conspicuous in the early part of 

 the season they increased rapidly throughout the summer and 

 caused the usual amount of damage to late cabbage. 



CuTrWOEMS. — One of the first pests of the season to cause an 

 incalculable amount of damage was the cut- worm. Complaints of 

 damage done by them were universal in the southeast section of 

 the State. 



From the reports given at the meeting of Economic Entomologists 

 at Springfield, Mass., during the first of September, it is evident 

 that they occurred in destructive numbers in all the Northern States 

 as well as in the State of New York. They also occurred in 

 destructive numbers as far south as Kentucky. 



From the cultural methods followed in the gardening districts 

 near New York city it was a mystery how the cut-worms had found 

 feeding grounds during the previous fall, especially favorable feed- 

 ing grounds to have survived in such destructive numbers. Several 

 localities were visited to determine as far as possible these condi- 

 tions. In the onion growing sections of Orange county it was 

 found that the fields are usually divided into long narrow plats by 

 ditches which answer either for drainage or for irrigation purposes. 

 The ditches, not sodded, are allowed to support weeds and various 

 kinds of wild grasses. It was evident from the manner in which 

 the cut- worms had invaded the plats that the moths had deposited 



