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  171 
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  those 
  infesting 
  tumble-weeds, 
  pigweed, 
  purslane, 
  and 
  other 
  juicy 
  weeds. 
  None 
  found 
  

   exclusively 
  injurious 
  to 
  beet. 
  Only 
  very 
  few 
  considered 
  destructive. 
  Those 
  recog- 
  

   nized 
  either 
  leaf-feeders 
  or 
  root-borers. 
  Publishes 
  list 
  of 
  sixty-four 
  species 
  with 
  brief 
  

   notes 
  upon 
  injuries 
  by 
  each. 
  Advises 
  clean 
  culture, 
  and 
  use 
  of 
  arsenical 
  sprays 
  

   except 
  for 
  suctorial 
  insects, 
  and 
  for 
  these 
  the 
  kerosene 
  emulsion. 
  

  

  Bruner, 
  Lawrence. 
  — 
  Notes 
  on 
  Beet 
  Insects. 
  (Insect 
  Life, 
  Vol. 
  III., 
  No. 
  5, 
  pp. 
  

   229, 
  230 
  ) 
  

  

  Author's 
  abstract 
  of 
  article 
  read 
  at 
  the 
  second 
  annual 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Association 
  

   of 
  Economic 
  Entomologists, 
  held 
  at 
  Champaign, 
  111., 
  Nov. 
  11-13, 
  1S90. 
  Consists 
  

   mainly 
  of 
  list 
  of 
  sixty-four 
  species 
  found 
  upon 
  either 
  leaves 
  or 
  root 
  of 
  the 
  sugar 
  

   beet. 
  Notes 
  fact 
  that 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  species 
  are 
  usually 
  known 
  as 
  weed-feeding 
  

   forms. 
  

  

  Bruner, 
  Lawrence. 
  — 
  Experiments 
  in 
  the 
  Culture 
  of 
  the 
  Sugar 
  Beet 
  in 
  Nebraska. 
  

   Insect 
  Enemies. 
  (Bull. 
  No. 
  16, 
  Neb. 
  Agr. 
  Exper. 
  Station, 
  Vol. 
  IV., 
  Art. 
  i., 
  

   Sugar 
  Beet 
  Series 
  No. 
  II., 
  pp. 
  55-72; 
  and 
  Fifth 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  Neb. 
  Agr. 
  Exper. 
  

   Station, 
  pp. 
  55-72.) 
  

  

  General 
  article, 
  discussing 
  the 
  garden 
  web-worm, 
  several 
  flea-beetles, 
  blister- 
  

   beetles, 
  true 
  bugs, 
  leaf-hoppers, 
  cutworms, 
  and 
  wireworms, 
  giving 
  descriptions, 
  illus- 
  

   trations, 
  habits, 
  and 
  life 
  histories 
  of 
  several 
  of 
  them, 
  with 
  description 
  of 
  injuries 
  to 
  

   beets 
  and 
  other 
  food 
  plants, 
  and 
  recommendation 
  of 
  remedies. 
  

  

  OsBORN, 
  Herbert, 
  and 
  Gossard, 
  H. 
  A. 
  — 
  Some 
  Insect 
  Enemies 
  of 
  the 
  Sugar 
  Beet. 
  

   (Bull. 
  No. 
  15, 
  Iowa 
  Agr. 
  Exper. 
  Station, 
  Nov. 
  i8gi, 
  pp. 
  265-272.) 
  

  

  General 
  article, 
  including 
  observations 
  made 
  at 
  Ames, 
  la., 
  with 
  matter 
  compiled 
  

   mainly 
  from 
  Bruner. 
  Discusses 
  cutworms, 
  grasshoppers, 
  blister-beetles, 
  flea-beetles 
  

   wireworms, 
  true 
  bugs, 
  the 
  clover 
  leaf-hopper, 
  beet 
  lice, 
  and 
  "Insects 
  associated 
  with 
  

   rotting 
  in 
  Beets." 
  

  

  Washburn, 
  F. 
  L. 
  — 
  A 
  Sugar-Beet 
  Beetle 
  (Monoxia 
  ^ul(iilala). 
  (Bull. 
  No. 
  14, 
  Oregon 
  

   Agr. 
  Exper. 
  Station, 
  p. 
  11; 
  Noticed 
  in 
  Bull. 
  No. 
  26, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  Agr., 
  Div. 
  Ent., 
  

   p. 
  II, 
  and 
  in 
  Bull. 
  No. 
  iS, 
  N. 
  S., 
  p. 
  95.) 
  

  

  Reported 
  as 
  quite 
  destructive 
  to 
  sugar 
  beets 
  in 
  Oregon. 
  A 
  solution 
  of 
  Paris 
  

   green 
  — 
  half 
  a 
  pound 
  to 
  fifty 
  gallons 
  of 
  water 
  — 
  with 
  the 
  addition 
  of 
  three 
  pounds 
  of 
  

   whale-oil 
  soap 
  killed 
  the 
  beetles, 
  but 
  six 
  weeks 
  later 
  they 
  were 
  again 
  at 
  work. 
  Double 
  

   the 
  above 
  strength 
  of 
  poison 
  was 
  used 
  without 
  injury 
  to 
  the 
  beet 
  leaf. 
  

  

  1892.' 
  

  

  Bruner, 
  Lawrence. 
  — 
  Notes 
  on 
  certain 
  Caterpillars 
  attackiug 
  Sugar 
  Beets. 
  (Bull. 
  

   No. 
  24, 
  Neb. 
  Agr. 
  Exper. 
  Station, 
  Vol. 
  V., 
  Art. 
  II., 
  Sugar 
  Beet 
  Series, 
  No. 
  IV., 
  

   PP- 
  3-7; 
  Sixth 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  Neb. 
  Agr. 
  Exper. 
  Station, 
  App 
  , 
  pp. 
  47-51.) 
  

  

  . 
  Description 
  of 
  food 
  plants 
  and 
  natural 
  history 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  garden 
  web-worms, 
  

   with 
  illustrations 
  of 
  luirycrcoti 
  similis 
  (after 
  Riley). 
  Natural 
  and 
  artificial 
  remedies. 
  

  

  Bruner, 
  Lawrence. 
  — 
  Report 
  upon 
  Insect 
  Depredations 
  in 
  Nebraska 
  for 
  1891. 
  Sugar 
  

   Beet 
  Insects. 
  (Bull. 
  No. 
  26, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  Agr., 
  Div. 
  Ent., 
  pp. 
  10, 
  11.) 
  

  

  Adds 
  two 
  species 
  to 
  list 
  of 
  Nebraska 
  beet 
  insects, 
  and 
  two 
  others 
  are 
  reported 
  

   from 
  Oregon. 
  Notes 
  abundance 
  of 
  cutworms, 
  which 
  almost 
  destroyed 
  entire 
  crop 
  on 
  

   two 
  Experiment 
  Station 
  plats. 
  Observation 
  indicating 
  that 
  fall 
  plowing 
  followed 
  by 
  

   spring 
  plowing 
  may 
  prevent 
  injury. 
  

  

  