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hose beiiiji- used to apply the liquid to the brisket, between the thigbs, 

 etc. With this apparatus about thirty animals per hour can be treated, 

 at a cost, iucludinpf material aud labor, of five cents per head. 



Injurious Insects in Cape Colony. — The March number of the Agricul- 

 tural Journal, published by the Department of Agriculture of Cape 

 Colony, contains what appears to l)e the first instalment of a series of 

 articles upon insects injurious to fruit by Mr. S. D. Bairstow, whose 

 name will be familiar to the readers of our reports as that of the gen- 

 tleman who first discovered the helpful ladybird Bodolia icerya\ the 

 principal African enemy of the Fluted Scale, and sent it to England, 

 where it was named by the late O. E. Jansen. In this instalment 

 of this important series, Mr. Bairstow considers HeUotMs armifjer and 

 CariHX'apHa pomonella. The first of these insects is treated from an 

 entirely new standpoint, that is, as an enemy to peaches. The popular 

 name as given at the head of the article is " The Boll Worm or Corn 

 Worm of the southern United States — the Peach Under- wing of the 

 Cape." The eggs seem to ha^'e been laid in great abundance upon i^i% 

 young peaches in the town of Cradock in the fall of 1892. On one tree 

 bearing 190 peaches no less than 73 larvie were found. Each larva, 

 not satisfied with tunneling and destroying the one peach upon which 

 its attack commenced, made its exit upon the side oi)posite to that of 

 its entry and then entered and destroyed a second and even a third 

 young fruit. The species was determined by Mr. Eoland Trinien, of 

 the South African Museum, so that there can be no doubt as to the 

 accuracy of the name. The remedies given by Mr. Bairstow are hand- 

 picking and spraying with Paris green. 



The consideration of the Codling Moth brings out little that is new. 

 This cosmoijolitan i)est was found doing great damage to pear orchards 

 at Graaff-Keinet during the past winter. We gather from the article 

 that this is considered to be a new and more or less local occurrence of 

 the Codling Moth in Cape Colony, and the importance of stamping it 

 out at this i>oint is insisted upon by Mr. Bairstow, who states that the 

 fruit-growers there have a resi)onsibility almost all their own in pre- 

 venting a widespread calamity. The Codling Moth, however, as 

 jjoiuted out in Mr. Howard's article in our annual report for 1887, has 

 been known in South Africa for a number of years, so that local work 

 will have hardly more than local effect. The Paris gi-een treatment 

 and the banding methods are recommended. 



Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod's Sixteenth Report.— The Sixteenth Eeport of 

 <»bservations of injurious insects and common farm pests of this well- 

 known writer upon agricultural entomology has just reached us. It is 



