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or more from the nests and were destroying the leaves at a 
rapid rate. May 10. Colorado potato beetles [Doryp hora 
10-lineata] are now seen in numbers in gardens, and, as. 
potatoes are not up, the beetles are working on transplanted 
tomatoes. Early sown turnips and cabbages suffer severely 
from the cabbage maggot [Phorbia brassicae]. Canker 
worms are doing great damage in orchards where they were © 
numerous last season. The roadside shrubbery is about de- 
foliated by appletree tent-caterpillars. The Sugar maple borer — 
[Plagionotus speciosus] is doing considerable dam- 
age in this vicinity. Its work in various trees shows first in 
dead limbs 40 to 60 feet from the ground, and this renders its. 
control practically impossible. ‘The red wheat, where that has 
been sown, has suffered very little injury, perhaps 54 to 204. 
June 11. A large crop of what early promised to be good 
wheat will not be worth cutting on account of the Hessian fly 
[Cecidomyia destructor] injury. Some farmers are 
plowing up their injured wheat fields and sowing them with 
other crops, though many will not, as they are anxious to save 
the seed. Many full grown tent-caterpillars were crawling 
about the streets June 1 looking for places to spin up. Potato 
beetles, asparagus beetles [Crioceris asparagi] and 
striped cucumber beetles [Diabrotica vittata|] are pres- 
ent in usual numbers. Currant worms [Pteronus ribesii} 
are scarce. June 6. I am unable to learn of any white wheat 
that is not badly injured by the Hessian fly. The red wheat 
has not been injured to any extent as yet. June beetles have 
been exceptionally scarce, and cutworms are more than usually 
abundant. The cabbage maggot has never been so injurious. 
It took one fourth to one third of 200 early cabbages. Colorado 
potato beetles are exceptionally abundant on early potatoes. 
On vines 6 to 8 inches high, which were sprayed with bordeaux 
mixture and arsenoid, the beetles were pretty thiek, and. 
examination showed that they had been cutting off the 
leaves and eating into the stems of the plants. Bcth 
sweet and sour cherries have been nearly ruined by the 
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