EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 539 



ENTOMOLOGY IN THE CROP BULLETIN. 



The Crop Bulletin issued by the State Weather Service was 

 discontinued at the end of the season of 1905, and its place is 

 taken by the Crop and Agricultural Bulletin of the New Jersey 

 State Board of Agriculture. This is issued monthly, instead of 

 weekly, and the reports, so far as the insects are concerned, do not: 

 present so complete a picture of the season's happenings. 



In May, the San, Jose Scale was working fatally in all un- 

 s])rayed orchards near Park Ridge, Bergen county ; it was also 

 rampant near Baptisttown, in Hunterdon county; near New Mar- 

 ket, in Middlesex county, the fruit did not look well on account 

 of the scale, and not much spraying had yet been done in that 

 locality. At Freehold, Monmouth county, the prospect for fruit 

 was good where the trees were well cared for and sprayed. Scale- 

 cide was used for the scale in place of the salt, sulphur and lime. 

 Near Moorestown, Burlington county, apples, where not too much 

 injured by scale, looked promising. 



Flea beetles were eating tomato plants near Hopewell, Mercer 

 county. At Imlaystown, Monmouth county, apple trees were full 

 of fruit, but the caterpillars were almost stripping the trees of 

 their leaves. Cut-worms were exceedingly abundant and destruc- 

 tive at Mount Laurel, in Burlington county. Potatoes were full 

 of bugs at the same place, and much the same report came fron^ 

 Green Creek, Cape May county. Lousy corn occurred at Shiloh,. 

 in Cumberland county, and the Curculio was abundant at Cologne,, 

 Atlantic county. 



In June, at Locktown, in Hunterdon county, hopes were enter- 

 tained that the scale was being controlled ; but at Athenia, Pas- 

 saic county, the coming fruit crop was estimated low because of 

 scale injury. Potato beetles continued to be numerous at Lock- 

 town ; they had been very bad at Dutch Neck, in Mercer county, 

 and were exceptionally bad near Moorestown, in Burlington 

 county. Rose bugs damaged, and in some instances completely 

 destroyed, sweet cherries near Park Ridge, Bergen county; they 

 cut into the raspberry crop at Hammonton, Atlantic county, and 

 were ver)^ destructive to cherries near Shiloh, in Hunterdon 

 county. Peach and squash borers were reported as apparently ex- 

 terminated by weather conditions at Dover, Morris county. Worms 



