﻿332 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  number 
  received 
  from 
  correspondents, 
  accompanied 
  usually 
  with 
  

   inquiries 
  of 
  their 
  name 
  or 
  means 
  of 
  control, 
  was 
  about 
  350, 
  from 
  52 
  

   individuals. 
  

  

  The 
  correspondence 
  of 
  the 
  office 
  has 
  not 
  varied 
  materially 
  from 
  that 
  

   reported 
  in 
  preceding 
  years. 
  The 
  record 
  of 
  letters 
  sent 
  is 
  1235. 
  Of 
  all 
  

   those 
  to 
  which 
  reference 
  might 
  be 
  desirable 
  hereafter, 
  copies 
  have 
  been 
  

   retained, 
  and 
  placed 
  on 
  file. 
  The 
  letters 
  received, 
  indorsed, 
  and 
  filed, 
  

   during 
  the 
  year 
  are 
  910 
  in 
  number. 
  

  

  The 
  year 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  marked 
  by 
  any 
  wide-spread 
  insects 
  ravages 
  in 
  

   the 
  state 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  or 
  by 
  the 
  introduction 
  of 
  any 
  formidable 
  insect 
  

   pest 
  from 
  abroad. 
  The 
  army-worm, 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  its 
  accustomed 
  

   limitation 
  of 
  serious 
  injury 
  to 
  a 
  single 
  year, 
  did 
  not 
  again 
  make 
  its 
  

   appearance 
  in 
  formidable 
  number. 
  The 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  is 
  not 
  spreading 
  

   rapidly 
  over 
  the 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  state 
  liable 
  to 
  its 
  introduction. 
  New 
  

   locahties 
  for 
  it 
  not 
  hitherto 
  reported, 
  are 
  Niagara, 
  Ontario 
  county; 
  

   Farmer, 
  Seneca 
  county; 
  and 
  Poughkeepsie, 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river. 
  

   Apparently, 
  conditions 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  favorable 
  for 
  its 
  spread, 
  and 
  it 
  

   is 
  very 
  encouraging 
  to 
  state 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  examinations 
  of 
  35 
  western 
  

   nurseries 
  by 
  my 
  assistant, 
  Dr 
  E. 
  P. 
  Felt, 
  in 
  not 
  a 
  single 
  instance 
  was 
  the 
  

   pest 
  discovered. 
  In 
  none 
  of 
  the 
  localities 
  in 
  the 
  state 
  where 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  

   detected, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  Long 
  Island, 
  has 
  the 
  scale 
  spread 
  to 
  any 
  

   serious 
  extent, 
  and 
  in 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  it 
  is 
  believed 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  exter- 
  

   minated. 
  .In 
  view 
  of 
  the 
  grave 
  apprehensions 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  entertained 
  

   of 
  the 
  destructiveness 
  and 
  stubborn 
  character 
  of 
  this 
  pest, 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  

   gratifying 
  to 
  have 
  received 
  the 
  recent 
  announcement 
  by 
  Dr 
  J. 
  B. 
  Smith, 
  

   entomologist 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Jersey 
  agricultural 
  experiment 
  station, 
  that 
  it 
  

   can 
  be 
  exterminated 
  by 
  spraying 
  the 
  infested 
  trees 
  with 
  pure 
  kerosene 
  

   during 
  the 
  winter 
  after 
  Jan. 
  i 
  and 
  again 
  in 
  July, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  

   summer 
  should 
  it 
  prove 
  necessary. 
  

  

  The 
  early 
  spring 
  months 
  indicated 
  an 
  unusual 
  prevalence 
  of 
  aphides 
  

   upon 
  crops 
  and 
  fruit 
  trees, 
  but 
  later 
  conditions 
  prevented 
  any 
  very 
  

   serious 
  injuries 
  from 
  them. 
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