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NEAT LEAF Rou,ER (Eccopsis permudana)T$ot so com- 

 mon as the foregoing. The moth is greenish. Mr. H. N. Starnes, 

 of the Georgia Station, says: "The caterpillar is green, with 

 a black head, and very active, attacking buds and flowers, which 

 it draws into its sewed-up leaf to feed upon undisturbed." He 

 thinks that hand picking and burning the plat in early winter 

 are perhaps the best remedies. 



SMEARED DAGGER (Apatela oblinata) This is another 

 enemy which attacks the leaves. Mr. Starnes says : "This cater- 

 pillar is the larva of a grayish moth. It is black, with red tufted 

 tubercles and variegated with bright yellow spots and bands. 

 Two broods appear: one, during the fruiting season, for which 

 the remedy is pyrethrum powder; the other, appearing in the 

 early fall, may be controlled by Paris green one ounce to sixty 

 gallons of water." 



STRAWBERRY SAW-FI^Y (Harpiphorusmaculatus) First de- 

 scribed as Emphytus maculatus. "The 'worm' or false cater- 

 pillar is a dirty yellow or yellowish naked caterpillar, not quite 

 three-fourths of an inch long. Its head bears three or more 

 brown spots. There are twenty-two legs," says Mr. R. H. Pet- 

 tit, of the Michigan Station. "Early in May the eggs are said 

 to be laid in slits cut in the leaf -stem of the strawberry leaf. 

 The eggs hatch, and the young false caterpillars attack the 

 leaves. ' ' A second brood appears in August or September. 



Mr. Pettit says that after the plants have bloomed and before 

 fruit begins to ripen, these pests may be killed with kerosene 

 emulsion, thoroughly applied so as to strike every worm. He 

 thinks air-slaked lime and sulphur or lime alone, sprinkled 

 through coarse bagging on the plants, would kill the worms. 



