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very destructive to the crop. It was again mentioned from the 

 same place, and the statement was added that strawberries would 

 be a low crop because of the injury caused by this insect. 



Cabbage Worms. July 19th, Bergen Point in Hudson county, 

 reports the caterpillars more numerous than for several seasons 

 past. August 2nd, the green cabbage worms were doing consider- 

 able injury at Phillipsburg, in Warren county. August 22nd, 

 they were numerous at Cologne, in Atlantic county. September 

 6th, they were very numerous and very destructive at Rancocas, 

 in Burlington county. September 13th, in the last Bulletin of the 

 season, the cabbage worms are mentioned twice, once as being 

 very destructive at South Bound Brook in Somerset county, and 

 in almost the same terms from Moorestown, Burlington- county. 



Cranberry Insects. Cranberry insects are not very often men- 

 tioned in the Crop Bulletins and when they are it indicates their 

 presence in considerable numbers. They are first referred to July 

 26th, from Hammonton in Atlantic county, in the statement that 

 reporter refers to the crop as having been seriously injured by 

 these insects. August 22nd, Mount Holly, Burlington county, 

 charges this same insect with being one of the important factors 

 that cause a shortening of the crop by one half. 



Miscellaneous. May 31st, Gooseberry zvornis were reported as 

 numerous from Lakeview, in Passaic county. June 14th, Wire- 

 zi'ornis were numerous at Trenton, in Mercer county; there were 

 some worms on tomatoes at Beverley in Burlington county, and at 

 Forest Grove in Gloucester county, insects were numerous and 

 destructive. July 5th the Hessian fly was in wheat at Delaware, 

 in Warren county, and on August 30th, Grasshoppers were very 

 numerous and destructive at Baptisttown in Hunterdon county; 

 unfortunately it was not stated to wliat crops they were destruc- 

 tive. 



THE COTTONY MAPLE SCALE. 



This species was unusually abundant during the summer of 

 1904 throughout most of the coastsection of the State; but much 

 more plentiful in the northern portion than toward the south. In 

 the cities especial attention was attracted, and scarcely a day dur- 

 ing the early summer passed without bringing some inquiries or 

 specimens for determination. The local authorities in some of 

 the cities and towns became interested in the matter, and began to 

 inquire what could be done to preserve and keep clean the shade, 

 trees, of which the maples form a large percentage. 



