TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 



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Your committee again feels it necessary to emphasize to 

 the members of the Society the indispensabihty of their vol- 

 untarily furnishing" information to the Committee on New- 

 Fruits ; for if the experimental work in that direction, that 

 the committee is expected to publish, be confined entirely to 

 the individual members of the committee, no report can be 

 presented, that is, of practical usefulness and of authorita- 

 tive value to the pomologists of Connecticut. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



GEORGE W. SMITH, 

 JOHN R. BARNES, 

 HARVEY JEWELL, 



Committee. 



President Rogers: I will call on the next committee, 

 the Committee on Injurious Insects, Dr. W. E. Britton, 

 Chairman. 



Report of Committee on Injurious Insects. 



The chief entomological feature of the season of 1911 in 

 Connecticut was the appearance of Brood II of the periodical 

 cicada or seventeen-year locust, Tibicen septendecim Linn., 

 The adults emerged from the ground beginning the last week 

 in May, and were present until about the first of July, oc- 

 curring in twenty-one towns in the southern central part of 

 the state, in parts of Hartford, New Haven and Middlesex 

 counties. They were most abundant in the wooded areas of 

 the high trap rock ridges, and the song or rattling noise of 

 the males made a perfect din while they lasted. As a rule 

 the insects did not occur on low ground. 



Considerable damage to fruit trees, and especially young 

 peach orchards situated near these infested areas, resulted 

 from ovipositing in the small branches. The weight of the 

 fruit and foliage, especially in wind storms, caused the 

 branches to break and the leaves and fruit to wither. Some 



