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INDEX. 
ashes, 171. 
attracting to food plants of minor | 
value, 107. 
to lamps and fires, 69, 145. 
baits of flour and molasses, 141. 
potato, ete., 69, 141. 
barriers to progress, 66, 68. 
birds, 45, 93,131,170. 
bisulphide of carbon, 69, 172, 176, 180. 
black-throated bunting, 151. 
bluebirds, 75, 131. 
burning grass, 59. 
muleh, 69. 
remnants of straw-stacks, 37, 38. 
rubbish, 69, 131, 135. 
straw, 31. 
strawberry fields, 68, 76, 88, 93, 180. 
stubble, 27,31, 33, 37, 38. 
eapture and direct destruction, 66, 68. 
capturing with insect net, 76, 107, 111, | 
131, 135, 180. | 
earbolic acid, 69, 173, 176, 180. 
eat-bird, 150. 
eatehing and killing, 85. 
ehickens, 45, 75, 93, 
chipping sparrow, 75. 
climatic influences, 33. 
Cocecinellida, 45,103. 
contagious diseases, 10, 95, 170. 
eresylic soap, 107,131. 
crushing, 68, 84. 
cultivation of grass lands in some | 
hoed erop, 67. 
culture, modes of, 66, 67. 
cutting off and destroying infested 
stalks, 27. 
destroying eggs, 10,68. 
weeds, 69, 114: 
destruction of first setting of young 
strawberry plants, 68. 
digging up and killing by hand, 145. 
dipping strawberry plants in kerosene 
and water, 104. 
direct destruction, 68. 
ditching, 68, 84. 
early transplanting of strawberries, 68. 
emulsion, kerosene, 69, 104,106,110, 111, 
133; 1a5% 
food plants used as decoys, 107. 
furrow plowed around the field, 68,84. 
gas lime, 67, 145. 
hand picking, 15, 68, 76, 112. 
hellebore, 69, 72, 76, 85. 
hoeing, 67. 
hot water, 141. 
Hymenoptera, 103. 
kerosene, 69, 76, 104, 115, 131, 135, 141, 145, 
. 148. 
emulsion, 69, 104, 106, 110, 111, 183, 135 
killing by hand, 145. 
lace-wing flies, 45. 
lady bugs, 103. 
late sowing, 27, 29. 
lime, 54,171. 
milk, 133. 
modes of culture, 66, 67. 
parasites, 24, 29, 32, 33, 75, 92, 183. 
parasitic diseases, 170. 
Paris green, 19, 69, 76, 80, 81, 84,86, 88,93, _ 
171, 176, 180- 
plants from infested fields, how to 
transplant, 174,175,177. 
not to be used, 104. 
plowing, 27,174, 176. 
poison, 10, 71, 86, 96, 180. 
prompt threshing, 28. 
pyrethrum, 69, 76, 80, 81, 110, 111, 112, 115, 
132, 135, 180. 
robins, 130, 121. 
rotation of crops, 15, 27, 29, 34, 37,38, 50, 
68, 180. 
safeguards against the deposit and 
transfer of insect eggs, 68. 
salt, 171. 
separation of fields, 68. 
soapsuds, 69, 106, 107, 131. 
soot, 171. 
substitution of 
wheat, 27. 
sulphur, 69, 106, 146. 
sweeping with insect net, 68, 76. 
syrphus flies, 45, 103. 
threshing, 28, 37. 
thrushes, 180. 
tobacco, 88, 93. 
topical applications, 66, 69. 
transplanting, 174, 175, 177. 
trapping in kerosene and water, 69. 
in water, 69. 
washing the roots of 
plants, 68. 
water, 69, 76, 104, 135, 145. 
hot, 141. 
spring for winter 
strawberry 
Report, Illinois Crop, 16. 
Illinois State Entomologist, 33, 
36, 40, 43,46, 5d, 62, 63, 72, 82, 88, 90, 
91, 94, 107, 115, 117, 142, 183. 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 
40). 
Massachusetts State Board of Agri- 
culture, 63. 
Michigan Horticultural Society, 114, 
159, 
State Board of Agriculture, 159, 
165. P 
Missouri State Entomologist, 15, 25, 62, 
2, 82, 88, 105, 107, 114, 116, 123, 156, 157, 171. 
New York.State Entomologist, 14, 15, 
27, 72, 117, 182. 
Ontario Entomological Society, 63, 70, 
71, 82, 83, 107, 156, 159. 
U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture, 
34, 72, 123, 156. ; 
Entomological Commission, 40. 
Entomologist, 111. 
Geological and Geographical 
Survey of the Territories, 
63, 72. 
