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from Curculio and Codling Moths, due to the excessive crop of 1891, 

 when in many uusprayed orchards myriads of specimens developed, 

 and the comparative scarcity of fruit in 1892, which is nearly all re- 

 quired by the excessive number of insects craving sustenance. Even 

 in s])rayed orchards injury is quite marked, while in some that are uu- 

 sprayed 95 per cent of the fruit is wormy and the rest is deformed by 

 Curculio punctures. I have counted thirty-five crescents on a single 

 apple no larger than a walnut. The Pear Midge has reached New 

 Brunswick, and has, probably, been there since 1891 at least. Found 

 a fcAv infested pears in a well-kept orchard, and in a neighboring, un- 

 cared-for lot of trees, many of them Lawrence, I found a considerable 

 percentage of infested fruit. I have been unable to trace it either south 

 or west of here, and there are some orchards on the direct line between 

 Elizabeth and New Brunswick where it has not been found. 



On Cranberry I found, locally, a species ofCaccecia not yet deter- 

 mined and not heretofore recorded on this food-])lant. Grasshoppers 

 are complained of as more injurious than ever on the bogs and in some 

 localities have taken to late cabbages. 



Cabbages, by the by, and Cauliflower as well, have suffered rather 

 more than usual from the Koot Maggot and from the larva of Pieris 

 rajycc. 



Growers are rather reticent on the subject, but I have reason to be- 

 lieve that a considerable amount of protection from " cabbage worms " 

 is obtained by the use of Paris green. 



Early tomatoes have suffered unusually in the southern part of the 

 State from an attack by the larva of Ileliothis armiger. The early fruit 

 pays so extremely well that truckers are anxious to gain even a day 

 when possible, and every tomato counts. As the earliest fruit was 

 most infested the money injury caused by the insect was quite out of 

 proportion to the actual percentage of fruit destroyed. The larva is 

 locally known as the '' heart worm." 



Crwceris 12-punctatm has made its appearance near Swedesboro in 

 southern New Jersey. I found it only on volunteer asparagus shoots 

 near the railroad track, and it does not seem to have entered the culti- 

 vated beds across the fence. 



On May 30, I found one specimen; on June 11, three specimens, and 

 on the 2Sth, a considerable number of them. July 13 I sought in vain 

 for more, and 1 have not been in the locality since. How extended its 

 distributicm may be in the State I do not know; it has not been com- 

 plained of as yet, nor has it been taken by the Philadelphia collectors. 



Some criticism of my Eose-chafer bulletin was made because I did 

 not personally test the kerosene emulsion, relying upon Col. A. W. 

 Pearson's dixit that it was ineffective. I had tested the pyrethro-kero- 

 sene mixture, and huding it ineffectual could not believe that kerosene 

 alone could be more efficient. To make assurance doubly sure, how- 

 ever, I made a series of experiments at Yinelaud, using the Eiley-Hub- 



