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bers of the pest may also be much reduced by keeping down the 

 grass and weeds in the vineyard, and particularly on light sandy 

 soils adjoining lands should be broken up and cultivated in annual 

 crops as far as possible, thus reducing the breeding grounds of the 

 pest. By bagging the grapes as soon as the fruit is set the clusters 

 may be protected from this as well as other pests and diseases 

 wherever such treatment is practicable. 



All recent work seems to indicate that the treatment with 

 arsenate of lead and molasses is the best means of control. The 

 spray should be applied before the beetles appear in large num- 

 bers and it may be necessary to repeat it once or twice. 



Self-boiled lime-sulphur has been said (Headlee) to act as a 

 repellant, but there is need for more experimental work before 

 this can be generally established. 



The Grape Leaf-hopper * 



Wherever the grape is grown in the United States and Canada, 

 the foliage will be found more or less infested with the small 

 Leaf -hoppers, often locally called " thrips," which feed and breed 

 on the under surface of the leaves during the season. By late 

 summer the vines may be covered with the hoppers, which will 

 fly off in clouds when disturbed, and every year there is serious 

 injury in various localities. The injury is done by the little 

 hoppers sucking out the juices of the leaves through their tube- 

 like mouth-parts. A small white spot first appears around the 

 feeding puncture, due to the loss of chlorophyll in the leaf, and 

 when the punctures have become numerous the leaf has a varie- 

 gated appearance. As the injury increases the leaf yellows and 

 finally dries up and falls to the ground. Where it becomes 

 general, this injury reduces both the quantity and quality of the 

 fruit. The pest is an insidious one, as it is not usually noticed 

 until it becomes very abundant in late summer, by which time 

 most of the injury has been done and it is too late to prevent it. 

 For this reason its control has been very generally neglected by 

 grape growers with a consequent loss the cause of which is often 

 unsuspected. 



* Typhlocyba comes Say. Family Jassidce. See Quaintance, I.e.; Hartzell, 

 I.e., and Bulletin 359, N. Y. Agr. Expt. Sta.; Quayle, I.e.; and M. V. Slinger- 

 land, Bulletin 215, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., and Fred Johnson, Bulletin 

 19, U. S. Dept. Agr. 



