REMEDIES. 



At tirsL 1 ti'ied haiKl-i)ickiug bnt soou found tluit this would cost 

 more than the shrubs were worth. I theu showered them with Paris 

 Greeu in water in the proportiou of half a pound to fifty gallons of 

 water which quickly, destroyed all the larvae then on the shrubs. This 

 remedy should be applied when the eggs first hatch, and again when 

 the second brood appears. If rains occur it should be repeated. 



THE BUD MOTH. 



The Bud Moth {Tmetocer a ocellana, Fab.) has been very abundant 

 this year, and has done a greater amount of injury than I had for- 

 merly supposed it capable of doing. A careful estimate was made 

 with several trees and, as nearly as I could judge, more than half of 

 the flower buds were destroyed by this minute insect ; a very unde- 

 sirable condition of things in the "off year" for apples. The food 

 plants of these insects are apple, pear, plum, and laurel oak. 



If the trees had been showered with Paris Green in water at the 

 time the buds began to swell in the spring, and again about ten days 

 later, these bud-moths would undoubtedly have been destroyed, and 

 the apple crop nearly doubled on the trees mentioned above. The 

 same spraying would also have killed the tent caterpillars, canker- 

 worms and any other leaf-eating insects that might have been feeding 

 on them at that time. 



Severe criticisms have appeared in the Entomological journals on 

 the kind of work which has been published in some of the Experi- 

 ment Station bulletins by the entomologists. These criticisms 

 whether just or not, lead us to consider what is the proper work of 

 the entomologist, and how he can make his division most useful to 

 the farmers in his particular state. 



Entomologists have already accumulated a vast store of useful 

 knowledge which is now scattered through the publications of various 

 scientific societies and not generally accessible. In many cases these 

 papers are too technical to be of interest except to specialists, but 

 the facts of general interest to farmers and fruit growers can be se- 

 lected and given in a popular way so as to be easily understood. It 

 seems to me that this is perfectly in accord with the language of the 

 first section of the act establishing these stations, — " to aid in acquir- 

 ing and dift'usiug useful and practical information." 



