INDEX, XXI 
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Vegétabl+s, garden, 116, 122. 
Vegetation, decaying, 56, 58. 
venusta, Schizoneura, 52. 
Vermont State Board of Agriculture, Re- 
ports. See under Reports. 
Veronica, 108. 
peregrina, 107. 
verticillata, Setaria, 52. 
vesea, Fragaria, 140. 
Viekroy; H. K., on common strawberry 
leaf-roller, 88, 95. 
viridis, Setaria, 52. 
vittata, Phyllotreta, 62, 86. | 
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Walker, on strawberry plant-lice, 100. 
Walsh, B. D. See Walsh and Riley. 
on Aphis maidis, 46. 
on Colaspis brunneéa, 156. 
on Erythroneura malefica, 182. 
maligna, 182. 
on strawberry millipedes, 139. 
on tarnished plant bug, 116. 
Walsh and Riley, on common strawberry 
leaf-roller, 88, 90, 91, 92. 
Walton, Alice B., on Emphytus maculatus, 
72, 74. 
Washing the roots of strawberry plants to 
destroy insect eggs, 68. 
Weathers, A. T',, observations on the flea 
negro bug, 110. 
Weber. H. A., observations on sorghum 
plant-lice, 41. 
Webster, F. M., 12. 
observations on Colaspis brunnea, 169. 
observations on strawberry crown- 
borer, 142. 
Weed, C.N., observations on Paria aterri- 
ma, 162. 
Weeds, 21, 42, 54. 
destroyed to prevent injuries of stalk- 
borer, 69, 114. 
Weevil, 40. 
black fruit, 62, 177. 
strawberry, 62, 114, 179. See straw- 
berry weevil. | 
Western Rural cited, 89, 104, 139. 
Wheat, injuries to by flea negro bug, 108, 
109. 
Hessian fly, 9. 
iulids, 140. 
wheat-bulb worm, 10, 13, 22. 
-straw worm, 30. 
Wheat-bulb worm, 10, 11, 13-29. 
description, 17. | 
distinguished from Hessian fiy, 17. 
stalk-borer, 17. 
wheat-straw worm, 17. 
first occurrence, 13. 
habits, 13. 
injuries, 13. 
compared with those of stalk- 
borer, 17. 
to rye, 18, 14, 23. 
timothy, 14. 
wheat, 13, 22. 
literature, 14. 
life history, 19. 
nomenclature, 16. 
remedies, 27. 
summary Of article on, 28. 
Wheat Oscinide, 24. 
-stem maggot, 18,16. See wheat-bulb 
worm. 
Wheat-straw worm, 30-38. 
deseription, 34. 
distinguished from wheat-bulb worm, 
17. 
first occurrence, 30. 
injuries to grain, 36. 
life history, 3. 
literature, 31. 
remedies, 37. 
White grubs, 61, 62, 144-146. 
ealendar, 179. 
deseription, 144. 
distinguished from larve of fig-eater, 
150. 
goldsmith beetle, 146. 
injuries to strawberries, 143, 145. 
life history, 145. 
literature, 63. 
remedies, 69, 145. 
Wier, D. B., on tarnished plant bug, 116, 
122, 123, 130. 
Wild crab apple,injuries to, by Paria, 161, 
169. 
strawberry, 60. 
Willow, injuries to, by Colaspis brunnea, 
169. 
horned span-worm, 79. 
smeared dagger, 82. 
Wilson strawberry, 125, 126, 127, 128, 148. 
Wire-worms injuring strawberries, 62, 143. 
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Yellow ant attending plaut-lice, 45, 48. 
small, 61,112. See small yellow ant. 
sorghum plant louse, 53. See Chai- 
tophorus flavus. 
-striped flea beetle, 62, 179. See Sys- 
tena blanda. 
