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that the Kearney pest poison acts very much like its Lodi prototype, 

 the only advantage over which it can claim being the faint coloring. 

 The Lodi Company sold a 1 lb. package for §1, which was to be dis- 

 solved in 120 gallons of water or more. The Kearney Company sell a 

 half pound package for 50 cents, which is to be dissolved in 60 gallons. 

 Of course either company could get any number of testimonials as 

 to the efficiency of their compounds. They herewith have mine. To 

 put forth the false claim of the circular I have noticed, is simple hum- 

 bug. There are plenty of farmers, who, rather than go to the trouble 

 of making their own mixtures, will send for such poison packages, 

 when they once know what the mixture is, where they would not 

 think of ordering a secret remedy. My advice to the manufacturers 

 would be " do not sail under false colors, or claim more than your 

 mixture deserves: let people know that there is just as much danger, 

 if not more, in its use, as there is in the use of Paris green in the wet 

 method. Do this, and put your article up in more secure j)ackages, 

 so that the poison in deliquescing does not soak and drip through in 

 hot weather as it now does ; and I believe you will still do a good 

 business, and deserve 7iot to be ranked as charlatans." 



THE ARMY y^O^'M—Leucania unipuncta Haw. 



FURTHER NOTES AND EXPERIMENTS THEREON. 



In the article on this insect in my last Report, certain important 

 and mooted questions as to the mode, place and time of oviposition 

 were settled definitely by observation. I have made further observa- 

 tions and experiments during the past year which are of interest as 

 completing our knowledge of this insect's natural history. They 

 were summed up in a brief paper read before the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science at its meeting in Buffalo, and 

 what follows is mainly taken therefrom. 



The eggs are thrust in between the sheath and stalk of well 

 grown grasses, whether cut or standing; or occasionally in between 

 the natural fold of the green leaf or the unnatural curi at the sides of 

 a withered leaf. On low blue grass, where my first observations were 

 made, they are, as stated last year, almost invariably laid in the fold 

 at the base and junction of the terminal leaf with the stalk. The 



