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sites in two cases, but has not been able to secure good specimens. He 

 thinks that the insect is not confined to the vicinity of Ithaca, but that 

 it will be found elsewhere. Experiments made to ascertain the amount 

 of damage by weighing the grain from the infested and the non-infested 

 heads showed in every case a decided superior weight in favor of the 

 heads of the infested stalks. The explanation offered — undoubtedly the 

 correct one — is that ovipositiou takes place early and that only the 

 largest stalks are chosen. 



Professor Smith's Bulletin on the Horn Fly.— In bulletin No. 62 of the New 

 Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Prof. J. B. Smith summarizes 

 his observations on the Horn Fly {Hcvmatobia serrata). We notice from 

 the date that the bulletin was submitted just about the time our article 

 on this insect in No. 4 of Insect Life appeared, and, as a result, neither 

 our observations nor our conclusions are referred to. Professor Smith 

 has also succeeded in tracing the life history. He secured eggs in con- 

 finement August 6, from which the imagos issued August 20 and 22. 

 The bulk of the bulletin is taken up with extracts from extensive cor- 

 respondence, and some fifteen pages more with descriptions of the dif- 

 ferent states and with anatomical details accompanied by figures. He 

 suggests the use of plaster instead of lime for the manure heap on 

 chemical grounds and for the preservation of the fertilizing qualities of 

 the manure. He further suggests that, by sending a boy through the 

 pasture with a shovel and with instructions to thoroughly spread all cow 

 droppings so that they may rapidly dry out, the larvae and eggs will be 

 destroyed— a suggestion of value only in dry and sunny weather. He 

 erroneously supposes that the eggs are largely laid at night, while our 

 latest observations prove plainly that this is not the case, and this vi- 

 tiates the discussion of remedies as applied to the manure pit or the in- 

 terior of the stable wherever cattle are pastured during the day. 



Entomology at the Paris Exposition.— The record of the fact that two 

 grand prizes for the United States were awarded at the Paris Exposition 

 (one to the Department of Agriculture and one to the Entomologist) in 

 class 76, which comprises useful and injurious insects, will not be out of 

 place in these pages. Only one other grand prize was awarded in this 

 class, and that was to Japan. This exceptional recognition of our ex- 

 hibit at Paris is, gela va sans dire, gratifying, but not more so than the 

 fact that the agricultural exhibit, included in fifteen classes, received 

 seven grand prizes, forty gold, sixty -eight silver, and fifty-four bronze 

 medals, and thirty-nine honorable mentions. This is a relatively larger 

 percentage of medals, than was awarded to the United States in the 

 other seventy one classes, and a very much larger percentage of awards 

 in the agricultural groups, as compared with those obtained by the 

 United States, either at the Paris Exposition of 1867 or of 1878. 



