26 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The legislature passed a law giving more authority to the 

 State entomologist in fighting this insect ; imposing a heavy 

 penalty for transporting living specimens into the State, or 

 from the infested area to a region not hitherto infested ; mak- 

 ing it unlawful to hinder or obstruct the control work ; and 

 appropriating one thousand dollars, and as much more 

 (up to ten thousand dollars), as the State Board of 

 Control and the State Entomologist may deem necessary. 

 We expect to be able to exterminate the gypsy moth from this 

 region, but the work must be kept up for one or two seasons 

 after the last caterpillar has been destroyed. The pest may 

 also turn up at any time in other parts of the State. I have 

 just been informed that it has been found in Springfield, a 

 point very close to the Connecticut border. This makes it 

 necessary that considerable scouting be done in the northern 

 portion of the State. 



The severe winter destroyed a large proportion of the 

 San Jose scales, fully fifty per cent, in some localities, so that 

 this inject did not multiply as in 1906 ; yet late in the season 

 it appeared to increase with unusual rapidity. The chief 

 developments of the year in the way of remedies have been 

 toward the use of "soluble oils," though we still advise lime 

 and sulphur in the peach orchard. Two experiment stations 

 in the United States have been working with the preparation 

 of home-made "soluble oils" or emulsions. Bulletins 75 and 

 79 of the Delaware Station (Newark, Del.) and Bulletin. 49 

 of the Storrs Station, give formulas for preparing these 

 mixtures. 



The apple leaf miner {Tischeria malifoliella Clem.), 

 which was so troublesome in the eastern part of the State in 

 1906, appeared in large numbers the second week in May, but 

 fortunately a spell of cold, wet weather killed many of the 

 adults before they laid their eggs, and also prevented the hatch- 

 ing of many of the eggs which had already been laid. On 

 the whole, very little damage was done by this insect in 1907. 



The apple aphis {Aphis pomi DeGeer) again did con- 

 siderable damage by checking the growth of nursery stock 



