144 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Insects Ijvjurious to the Cranberry and 

 Other Fruits. 



BY I'ROF. CHA.S. H. FERNALD, AMHERST. 



Cranberry Insects. 



My attention was first called to the injuries caused by 

 cranberry insects seven years ago, and I was requested to 

 investigate the matter. My first thought was that the in- 

 dustry was not of sufficient importance to justify the ex- 

 penditure of time and money that would be necessary to 

 obtain results of practical value to those most interested. 

 I therefore looked into the matter, and learned, to my sur- 

 prise, that the cranberry industry was not only a large 

 and important one in this State, but that it was rapidly 

 increasing. 



The "Yarmouth Register" of Dec. 20, 1890, gave some 

 very instructive statistics regarding this industry during the 

 years 1883 to 1890 inclusive, showing an increase, during 

 those years, from 32,079 barrels in 1882 to 89,886 barrels 

 in 1890. These statistics indicate only the number of bar- 

 rels shipped over the Old Colony Railroad, and represent 

 only a part of the entire yield of the State. The number 

 of barrels given in the above-named paper for the year 1885 

 was 66,063, but the State census for that year gave 105,106 

 barrels for the yield of the entire State ; and when we con- 

 sider how the data for the State census was obtained, we 

 may feel confident that the entire yield was more rather 

 than less than the amount given in that report. The yield 

 for 1891 has been given as 157,000 barrels, and I have else- 

 where estimated that the value of the crop for that year 

 could not have been much below $1,000,000. Whether 

 these estimates were at all accurate, I do not know ; but 

 they were sufficient to assure me of the importance of the 



