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Gardening for March, 1889, that be sprayed liis apple trees once last 

 year and that uiue tenths of the fruit were wormy. No particulars are 

 given, but the instance is worthy of record. 



It is but fair to state, however, that Mr. Smith also states that for the 

 last two years he has found that a single spraying saved his cherries, 

 and also that four or live applications have done the same for his plums. 



WHITE GRUB IN STRAWBERRY BEDS. 



Mr. M. T. Thompson {Popular Gardening, March, 1889) finds that 

 plenty of manure and thorough working of the land will greatly reduce 

 the numbers of the white grub. He understands that hog manure will 

 not answer the purjiose. 



FARMERS AND STOCK-RAISERS' INSECT SOCIETY. 



We learn that a meeting of farmers and stock raisers was recently 

 held at Duquoin, 111., intended primarily to take some action regarding 

 the Chinch Bug and also to form an organization for the study of the 

 habits and the best means of fighting insect pests in general, where 

 concerted action seemed to be needed. Mr. E. M. Harris, of Duquoin, 

 was elected president, and a board of directors was chosen composed 

 of one farmer from each of the eight precincts of the county. County 

 organizations of this kind are most desirable, as they will bring about 

 a concert of action which can not be arrived at in any other way. 



A BRYOBIA IN NEW ZEALAND. 



In our March number we published a communication by Mr. Web- 

 ster concerning a mite of the genus Bryobia, which has been infesting 

 houses in Indiana and other parts of the country. We learn from the 

 Neic Zealand Farmer for February that a congeneric insect is dam- 

 aging the leaves of the apple in New Zealand. 



THE BOX ELDER BUG. 



In Bulletin No. 12 of this Division we published an account of dam- 

 age to apples by Leptocoris trivittata in Utah, and stated that our cor- 

 respondent wrote " that they had ai)peared upon the box elder shade 

 trees." During the past season we have heard of their occurrence in 

 great numbers in Utah and Nebraska, and notice in the Kansas Indus- 

 trialist, for March, 1889, an article by Prof. E. A. Popenoe, in which he 

 figures the insect in all of its stages and gives an account of its habits. 

 He has observed it feeding upon a number of plants, but upon none of 

 much economic importance. 



THE FLORIDA WAX-SCALE IN CALIFORNIA. 



We have recently received a letter trom Mr. W. E. Collins, the Sec- 

 retary of the Board of Horticultural Commissioners, of San Bernardino 



