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acid kill it. I shall blow dry calomel up a patient’s nose or ear that is 
attacked when I treat it. It is said to prefer the dog and sheep for 
victims. 
Hope we may see some facts published in next Agricultural Report 
about it, and oblige 10,000 Kansas farmers and stockmen, &c.—{W. 8. 
NEWLON, Oswego, Kans., March 30, 1883. 
[The larva was that of Lacilia macellaria. | 
JUNE BuGs AND PEAR-LEAF MITES. 
The “West Town Farm and Garden Club,” at its meeting last Sat- 
urday evening, had two items before it, among others, which it wishes 
to refer to you for information. 
The first regards a swarm of bugs that in large numbers at night are 
eating the foliage of the fruit trees on one or two neighboring farms. 
They are evidently a species of June bug, or May beetle, as some of the 
latter were found on the tree the smaller ones were taken from, one of 
which is inelosed with the smaller bugs. 
The other item may not come in your department. If not, please 
have it put in the right hands. 
A member brought in a branch of a pear tree, a twig of which is in- 
closed. The tree appeared perfectly healthy up to the time of its attack, 
when in twenty-four hours the leaves were all affected more or less as 
the sample inclosed. The club would like to know the nature of the 
disease, and the remedy, if any, forit; whether it is likely to be fatal, 
or contagious to moehborine trees. _Tas. B. FISHER, President, West 
Town, Orange County, N. Y., May 21, 1883. 
(The “June bug” eating the foliage of the fruit trees was Lachno- 
sterna tristis. The best remedy will be found in attracting them at night 
by a light suspended over a tub of water on which is a thin scum of 
kerosene. 
The diseased appearance of the pear leaves sent was caused by one of 
the gall mites—probably Typhlodromus pyri. We advised that the tree 
be sprayed with one of the kerosene emulsions spoken of in the Annual 
Report of this Department for 1881-2, pp. 115 and 116.] 
THE GRAPE-VINE COLASPIS. 
I send you some bugs in a vial. Please tell me what they are, and if 
there is any way to kill them or prevent them from eating up grape-vines 
and young grapes. Three years ago I planted out 75 acres in grapes, 
mostly Seuppernong variety, but some of all kinds. Last year these 
