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tion, but the principal cause may be credited to the fact that in no state in the 
Union has more intelligent and persistent effort been made to prevent its rava- 
ges. Their Agricultural and Horticultural Journals and their Pomological So- 
ciety through their transactions have kept the simple methods of fighting the 
pests continually before the people. In that State they have one of the best 
Agricultural Colleges in the west, and the professor (Beal) has taken very par- 
ticular pains to make the results of his experiments known. His experiments 
have demonstrcted that the best remedy is paper bands kept around the trees 
from June to August, examining them and destoying the pupa every nine days 
after the first appearance of the worms. He says the expense in an orchard of 
250 trees is about four cents per tree. Were every fruit grower to practice 
this, in a thort time wormy apples would rarely be found. The best paper for 
this purpose is such as is used in the manufacture of flour sacks. The bands 
should be about three double and long enough to go around the tree and lap a 
little to receive a tack to hold them in place. Hay bands, woolen rags and va- 
rious other materials will answer the same purpose but are not as convenient to 
examine and readjust. Where swine and sheep have access to the orchard, 
they assist very much in destroying the worms and picking up the affected fruit; 
and feeding it to stock or scalding destroys multitudes of them. Unless they 
are headed off, we cannot hope for any great success in growing apples. 
It is a startling fact that insects injurious to our crops are increasing very 
rapidly, and new species are continually being introduced from other countries, 
and that some preventive measures ought to be taken to stay their progress. 
The science of entomology is but little understcod by the great mass of our farm- 
ers. It should be a branch taught in every school. Cabinets of insects should 
be established and maintained at the State University and all the higher schools, 
and our Legislature could do no wiser act than to provide for the appomtment 
of a state entomologist, and the publication and distribution of information 
upon the subject. If the State 1s now so poverty-stricken that it cannot aftord 
measures to protect the people in their interests, what will it be when our fields 
no longer yield their fruits and grain because of bugs and worms? If so poor, 
better far to reduce the numbers of the Legislature one-half, and devote the 
amount saved to some purpose that will be of lasting good to the people. 
Ordered on file for publication. 
New Rose Beetles. (Armiyus Fulleri.) 
Within a few years a new or previously unknown insect has made its appear- 
ance in the vicinity of New York, which is creating some alarm among those 
who grow roses and other plants extensively for winter blooming and cut flow- 
ers. The first public notice of it was made in 1875 or 1876, in the proceedings 
of the American, Philosophical Society, where it is given the name of armiyus 
Fulleri in honor of the distinguished horticulturalist, A. S. Fuller, who first no- 
ticed it as being destructive to plants. The perfect insect is a snout beetle about 
one-third of an inch in length and of a dirty gray color. The beetles feed only 
in the night and shun the lightin day time, hiding among the leaves, clinging 
close to the branches or in some fork where they are not readily observed. If 
disturbed they usually drop to the ground, draw up their legs and remain mo- 
tionless for some time, their ,color preventing them from being observed. They 
