540 NEW JERSEY AGKICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



.in cherries lessened the crop at Cranford, Union county, where 

 ihe non-occurrence of the Periodical Cicada is also made a matter 

 •of positive note. Cut-worms were charged with a loss of twenty- 

 iive per cent, of the cabbage crop at Athenia, Bergen county ; they 

 •compelled the replanting of tomatoes and troubled corn near Hope- 

 well, in Mercer county; kept back corn near Moorestown, and 

 delayed the starting of gardens at Mount Laurel, both in Bur- 

 lington county; finally, small caterpillars were charged with caus- 

 ing a bad dropping of the leaves of Xorway maples at Hopewell, 

 Mercer county. 



In July, Scale ravages were not showing as bad as in the two 

 last preceding years, which may be due to the fact, which was also 

 noted, that some spraying had been done, near Morristown, in 

 j\Iorris county. ll'ormy apples were reported from Matawan, 

 Monmouth county, which may, in part at least, be explained by 

 the further report, ''no spraying of consequence done here." 



In September, San Jose Scale threatened the total destruction 

 •of the apple industry at Baptisttown, Hunterd<jn county; many 

 rapple trees were dead through it at Preakness, Passaic county, and 

 Might and scale together caused light crops of apples and pears at 

 Hopewell, Mercer county. It is comforting to learn, from Living- 

 -ston, in Essex county, that the fruit was clean and showed no 

 rsigns of scale. 



In Octol>er, Park Ridge, Bergen county, complains of two 

 things — ''increasing taxation, with but little to show for it, and 

 the San Jose scale, with too much to show for it."' That all is not 

 yet lost is shown by the added note that "very many will spray in 

 the fall, as well as in the spring." x\t Cohansey, Salem county, 

 late-threshed wheat was badly cut by the graiyi moth, and much of 

 it was not fit for flour. 



THE ARMY WORM. 



Lenoania nnipnnota Haw. 



This insect is rarely troublesome in Xew Jei-sey, although the 

 adult moth is one of the commonest of its tribe found by the col- 

 lector. Its normal food plants, the grasses, are, however, so plenti- 

 ful everywhere that a great number of individuals develop abso- 

 lutely unnoticed every season. They are kept in check as a rule 

 hj parasites, to which they are greatly sulvject, and by diseases 



