REMEDIES AGAINST THE CRANBERRY FIRE WORM. 19 
next season, and the most careful examination discovered but a very 
few eggs. 
RECOMMENDATIONS. 
Despite the success attending the use of some of the above insecti- 
cides, the damage done by the larva of this insect this season was im- 
mense—much more extensive in New Jersey than on Cape Cod, but suf- 
ficiently great even there. One of Dr. Brakeley’s bogs, which for a fair 
erop should produce 1,500 bushels and has yielded 2,000, yielded this 
year less than 200 bushels; one 40-acre bog was almost entirely eaten 
up, and bogs of excellent vines, which easily produce 200 bushels to the 
‘acre, this season yielded but 40 to 50 bushels; only a few bogs were 
exempt, and the damage done amounted to many thousands of dollars. 
Many of the growers are becoming disheartened because, though they 
kill millions of larvee, yet they still lose their crops. The difficulty is not 
with the means employed but with the time at which they are applied ; 
the greatest damage is done by the second brood of larvae in the first two or 
three days of their life, because then, before spinning up leaves, they eat 
into the buds, flowers, and young berries, a single larva in one day 
sometimes destroying two or three berries or blossoms and being then 
of a size so small as to be scarcely perceived ; their appearance is noted 
when they begin to spin up the leaves and vines, and war is waged 
against them, but it is then too late, the greatest damage is done, and 
growers wonder why so few berries set. To be successful in saving a 
crop the war must be vigorously carried on against the first brood and 
against the imagines resulting therefrom. From the observations made 
and recorded above, and having followed Dr. Brakeley’s efforts pretty 
closely during the past year, as well as from the experiences of others 
reported to me, I advise the following course as most likely to be sue- 
cessful : 
The water, if used as first proposed, 7. e., reflowing when the larve 
begin to appear, will afford a nearly complete remedy, but even then 
the surviving members of the first brood must be attacked, for a single 
female produces from 20 to 25 eggs, and a few hundred escaped larvie 
form the nucleus of a destructive second brood. Where the water can- 
not be so used, it should be held very laté, and drawn off gradually, 
the object being to raise it to as high a temperature as possible, in order 
to hasten the development of the larva and destroy itin embryo. When 
the water is off, the vines should be daily examined, so as to note the 
first appearance of the larva; the time will vary according to the tem- 
perature of the air, as well as that of the water which had covered them. 
In from three to ten days the larve will be all hatched; at first they will 
burrow in the leaf, and then ascend to the tip, and their presence can 
then be readily noted by the fact that the under side of the leaves 
can be seen; the top will be found drawn together, and the larva in- 
side; a little experience will enable any one to tell at a glance; as be- 
