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THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The injury caused by tree crickets in laying their eggs 

 was reported as being very abundant at Storrs in the fall. 



The round-headed apple borer, Saperda Candida Fabr., 

 is a serious pest in many orchards, and a careful examination 

 and cutting out is the only certain remedy. In the Station 

 experimental orchard at Mount Carmel part of the trees have 

 been treated with various substances and mechanical devices 

 to ascertain their value in preventing injury by this insect, 

 Aphids, both the green aphis and the rosy aphis, were 

 more abundant than in 1910, and the latter caused considera- 

 ble injury by stinging the young fruit. Apparently the sum- 

 mer sprays of lime and sulphur do not control the rosy apple 

 aphis, as we had hoped, though they may check it to some ex- 

 tent. 



W. E. BRITTON, New Haven, Chairman, 



C. D. JARVIS, Storrs, 



F. A. BARTLETT, Stamford, 



Committee on Injurious Insects. 



President Rogers: We come now to the last of the 

 reports, that of "Demonstration Orchard Work of the Past 

 Year," and the report will be given by Dr. C. D. Jarvis. 



Report of Demonstration Orchard Work 

 of the Past Year. 



By Dr. C. D. Jarvis. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen : 



Two years ago the Pomological Society asked the col- 

 lege to co-operate with them in some orchard demonstration 

 work. As a result of this request the writer, representing 

 both the Society and College, undertook to demonstrate the 

 methods of orchard renovation in two sections of the state — 

 Cheshire and Pomfret. The Cheshire orchard is on the 

 farm of S. A. Smith & Son, and the one at Pomfret on the 

 farm of Joseph E. Stoddard. A report of the first season's 



