NEWSPAPER BULLETINS PUBLISHED IN 1901. 

 Chas. D. Woods. 



Whenever there is matter of importance which we wish to 

 bring promptly to the attention of the people of the State, we 

 -make as clear and concise a statement as possible in the style and 

 type of a newspaper column and mail it as a "Special Newspaper 

 Bulletin" to all the press of the Station exchange mailing list. 

 These Newspaper Bulletins are quite generally printed by the 

 papers and the Station is under obligations to the press for this 

 opportunity of specially and promptly being put in touch with the 

 people. 



During the year the Station has issued several special news- 

 paper bulletins on miscellaneous subjects and 12 monthly mete- 

 orological bulletins. The results of the meteorological observa- 

 tions thus reported are summarized beyond. The matter of 

 three of the newspaper bulletins has not appeared in any of the 

 regular bulletins of the Station and is therefore here reprinted 

 as a matter of permanent record. 



The Colorado Potato Bektle. 



Effects of poisons with and without Bordeaux mixture on badly 



infested fields. 



In a series of experiments in 1901 it was found that three 

 applications of Paris green at the rate of one-half pound to the 

 acre is sufficient to keep the vines free from the Colorado potato 

 beetle, provided the sprayings are made at such times as to have 

 the poison on all the foliage when the bugs first hatch. 



Every year many potato growers wait until the vines are well 

 covered with the bugs before beginning to fight them, and then 

 the Station is in receipt of letters of complaint against the quality 

 of the poisons, and requests for analysis. As this condition of 



