REPORT UPON CRANBERRY AND HOP INSECTS. 
By Joun B. SMITH. 
Sir: Herewith I transmit my report on cranberry and hop insects, to the study or 
which, under your direction, I devoted the past summer. The notes with which you 
furnished me, and the aid and information given me during the summer in several 
difficult matters, materially lightened the work, and enabled me to report more fully 
than would have been otherwise possible. The damage done to both cranberries and 
hops this season was great—greater than it had been for years past—and fully justi- 
fied your selection of these plants as requiring special investigation. For the deter- 
mination of larve which I failed to raise to maturity, and for the notes on the insects 
raised from larvee sent you, I desire also to express my thanks. 
Respectfully submitted, 
JOHN B. SMITH. 
Prof. €. V. RiuKy, 
United States Entomologist. 
CRANBERRY INSECTS. 
To ascertain the history of these insects, I visited some of the cran- 
berry bogs of New Jersey, and some of the Cape Cod bogs. At Cape 
Cod, Hyannis was the center of my investigations, and thence I visited 
the bogs at Harwich and vicinity, and Cotuit and vicinity. To Mr. 
George J. Miller, at Hyannis, I am indebted for information as to the 
location of the larger bogs, and as to the persons best able to aid me; 
to Captain Ames, at Cotuit, and Captain Cahoon, at Harwich, I am in- 
debted for much information; while fo all others, growers and those in- 
terested in the cranberry culture, I owe thanks for uniform courtesy and 
ready assistance. My researches in the New Jersey district were princi- 
pally carried on in the vicinity of Hornerstown and Prospertown, and 
most largely on the Lahaway plantations, where Dr. J. H. Brakeley, him- 
self no mean entomologist, and a very careful observer, gave me all as- 
sistance in his power, aided me in my experiments, and placed at my 
disposal his house and all his bogs. To him and to Mr. J. T. Brakeley 
I would express my sincere thanks for their courtesy. A diary kept by 
Dr. Brakeley, recording the first appearance of the insects in the various 
stages, the times of greatest plenty and the number of broods, together 
with the experiments looking toward their destruction and their suecess 
or non-success, proved of great service to me, as I knew thus, at least 
approximately, what I had to expect. The insect enemies of the cran- 
berry are not alike in New Jersey and Cape Cod in all respects, The 
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