533 NEW JERSEY AGmCULTURAL COLLEGE 



Trenton, ns will appear in the ivjiort of the Curator, 'Mv. Silas R, 

 ]\Iorse. 



The session of the Hortienltnral Inspectors held at the city of 

 Washington during the middle of November was attended as rep- 

 resentative of the New Jersey Stations, and a trip was made into 

 the newly-developed apple-growing districts near Martinslmrg, W. 

 Va., where also the works of the American Horticultural Distrib- 

 uting Company were visited and their method of making insecti- 

 cides — Target Brand Emulsion and Arsenate of Lead — was ob- 

 served. Some of tlie information gained will be found on another 

 page of this report. 



The usual Avork of attending institute and other farmers' meet- 

 ings throughout the State has been continued, and many lectures 

 have been given, not only on the aeneral topics dealing with insects 

 injurious to crops, but with the mosquito pest in all its' variations. 

 So, also, continuing good relations have been maintained with 

 entomologists and entomological societies, as heretofore. 



Mr. John A. Grossbeck, assistant in the mosquito investigation^ 

 has materially assisted at times in the general work of the Station^ 

 and to his artistic skill the illustrations in. this report will testify. 



The correspondence of the office during the past year was some- 

 what less than usual, owing to my long absence from office work,, 

 covering 1654 pages of letter-books and representing about 2500 

 individual communications. 



RECORD OF THE EXPERIMENT ORCHARD. 



All the trees were sprayed with "Scalecide," 1 to 20, on No- 

 vember 16th, 1005, by Mr. Dickerson, who made the. following 

 note: ''This afternoon sprayed all the trees in the Experiment 

 Orchard with Scalecide at a strength of 1-12, and sprayed thor- 

 oughly except a few along the fence on side next to the street. 

 These were pretty thoroughly sprayed, but difficult to spray from 

 both sides." 



A few days later another application w\as made to the trees not 

 properly treated, and there was a general touching up of trees thf.t 

 seemed to need it. Apparently no memorandum of this applica- 

 tion was made. 



Eor personal reasons, my house and grounds were let during. 



