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to show the location of the pupa-cell and drawings of the larva, pupa, 

 and imago. Practically, the insect can be dealt with rather easily. It 

 remains in the vines throughout the Winter, as a rule, or at least remains 

 in them until they are dead and dried. Burning the vines as soon as the 

 potatoes are harvested results in destroying all the beetles. Where vines 

 become infested moderately only— that is, not more than three or four 

 larvae to a vine — the liberal application of readily soluble fertilizers will 

 stimulate the plants, so that it will make and mature a crop in spite of the 

 injury done by the insects. 



Legislation Against Injurious Insects.— Bulletin No. 33 of the Division of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, treats of this subject at 

 some length, giving the full text of all the laws heretofore passed on the 

 subject, and in addition some of the decisions of the courts upon the 

 laws. It appears from this Bulletin that eleven States have passed laws 

 more or 'less completely covering the subject, British Columbia being 

 included in this enumeration. In Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, and 

 Nebraska grasshoppers alone form the subject of legislation. In Cali- 

 fornia legislation is most thorough and covers the entire subject. Oregon, 

 Washington and Idaho, as well as British Columbia, have tolerably com- 

 plete provisions. The New Jersey Act is intended to be comprehensive ; 

 but at present writing has not yet succeeded in passing the gauntlet of 

 House, Senate, and Governor and becoming actually effective. 



Foul Brood has become the subject of legislative action in New York 

 and in Utah, and, if the present agitation continues, something will prob- 

 ably be done in New Jersey. Most of the opposition in New Jersey comes 

 from the farmers themselves and practically from one section of the 

 country, where the insect question has not forced itself upon them very 

 strongly from the nature of their agriculture. Peculiarly enough, how- 

 ever, that very section which opposes general legislation suffers from 

 "Foul Brood," and is very anxious to obtain legislative action on this 

 particular subject. It aff'jrds a very pre|ty illustration of human nature, 

 and it shows that it always depends upon whose ox is gored as to whether 

 or not it becomes necessary to take active measures. 



It will become interesting if, in the future, we can obtain reports from 

 the various States in which laws exist as to their workings. I have fol- 

 lowed with some interest developments in New York State on the Black 

 Knot question, and was a great deal amused on one occasion in talking 

 with a farmer to have him declare that if it was anywhere within his 

 power the law would be enforced and he would see to it that no black 

 knots existed in his vicinity. A little later, strolling through his place, 

 I ran across a clump of old cherry trees on a hillside that were simply 

 covered with black knot, and I was further interested later on when I 

 asked him whether he knew of the existence of any such fungus on his 

 place that he asserted in the most positive way that nothing of that kind 

 could be found anywhere within his domains. 



