200 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 
“ Victoria, B.C., May 18.—Tent Caterpillars swarm everywhere, but as usual a 
large proportion bear the eg ggs of parasites 
(Tachina). I am sending you a specimen of my 
the Caterpillar with no less than 8 eggs on it; [14 
- from this you will see the abundance of the 
parasites.” —[E. A. Carew-Gibson. | 
The specimens represented in Mr. Carew- [3 
Gibson’s sending were Clistocampa Californica & 
and C. Americana. 
*« Agassiz, B.C.-We have this year swarms 
of Forest Tent Caterpillars. The hazel, willow, 
crab apple, birch and alder in the woods, all ANE oe 
seem to be infested.”—[Thos. A. Sharpe. | Fig. 7.—Forest Tent Caterpillar ; eggs and moth. 
Fig. 6 shows the Forest Tent Caterpillar and Fig. 7 the eggs (natural size and 
enlarged) and female moth of the same. All the Tent Caterpillars ee each other 
very much and will be easily recognized from these cuts. 
The remedies for Tent Caterpillars of all kinds are handpiceine of the eggs and 
young colonies and the spraying of the foliage of infested trees before the caterpillars 
get large enough to do much harm. 
CANKER-WORMS (Anisopteryx).—Two references only to injury by Canker-worms have 
been made this season ; but I observed while travelling through Nova Scotia in June 
last the abundant presence of these insects in certain localities. I was much pleased to 
notice the general adoption of spraying by the leading fruit growers. . These caterpillars 
must be treated while they are young, or the ordinary spraying mixtures are not strong 
enough to destroy them. 
‘Grimsby, May 31.—Mr. Laws has handed me a box of apple boughs cut from his 
father’s orchard near Camden, Ont., where the Canker-worm is very bad. He says he 
has tried Paris green faithfully without effect. The orchard looks as if fire had been: 
through it in summer.”—|L. Woolverton. | 
“ Berwick, N.S.—The Canker-worm still crops up in some sections ; an infected dis- 
trict takes a long time and careful work to clear up. I do not know of any serious 
losses this year from its ravages.”—[S. C. Parker. ] 
SHoT-BoRER (Xyleborus dispar, Fab.).—This injurious enemy of the apple continues 
to commit serious depredations in the orchards of Nova Scotia and Prince Ed- 
ward Island, where it attacks both apple and plum trees. The most extensive 
injury brought to my notice during the past season occurred at Grand Pré, 
King’s County, N.S., where Mr. George Johnson, the Dominion 
Statistician, found the beetles working much havoc in his own 
orchard as well as in those of several of his neighbours. The best 
remedy for this insect is the wash mentioned by Mr. John S. Wood- 
ae worth, of Berwick, N.8., in my Report for 1894, viz., washing the 
nat, size & trees liable to attack three times,—-early and late in June and once 
ee an July, with the following : Soft soap, 1 gallon ; water, 3 gallons ; 
carbolic acid, 4 pint. This same mixture has been “used successfully : against 
the Peach Bark-borer (Phleotribus liminaris, Harris). 
OYSTER-SHELL BArK-LOUSE (Mytilaspis pomorwm, Bouché).—Every year 
brings numerous complaints of the deadly work of this enemy of the fruit 
grower, and 1897 has been pre-eminently a scale-insect year, owing to the 
anxiety about the San José scale having directed a more than usual amount 
of attention to these inconspicuous but frequently fatal enemies of fruit trees. 
The best remedies for all scale-insects which, like the Oyster-shell Bark- 
louse, have only one brood in the year, is to spray the trees before the buds 
burst, and again in June when the young are moving, with the Riley- pig, 9— 
Hubbard kerosene emulsion (1 to 9), or with whale-oil soap, 1 Ib. in 2 Oyster-shell 
gallons of water. In addition, —and this is of great importance,—a healthy, Beth lot: 
