﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist. 
  ]83 
  

  

  In 
  view 
  of 
  what 
  has 
  already 
  been 
  accomplished, 
  there 
  is 
  

   abundant 
  reason 
  for 
  a 
  continuance 
  of 
  the 
  appropriations 
  by 
  the 
  

   Legislature 
  of 
  Massachusetts 
  until 
  the 
  desired 
  extermination 
  is 
  

   secured, 
  or 
  until 
  the 
  insect 
  shall 
  have 
  been 
  reduced 
  to 
  entire 
  

   harmlessness 
  and 
  in 
  position 
  never 
  again 
  to 
  develop 
  in 
  injurious 
  

   numbers 
  or 
  to 
  invade 
  other 
  States. 
  Knowing 
  as 
  we 
  do, 
  the 
  

   frightful 
  ravages 
  of 
  the 
  gypsy 
  moth 
  in 
  the 
  past, 
  and 
  the 
  cer- 
  

   tainty 
  that, 
  if 
  left 
  to 
  itself, 
  its 
  natural 
  multiplication 
  would 
  soon 
  

   carry 
  it 
  over 
  the 
  entire 
  State, 
  it 
  would 
  unquestionably 
  be 
  a 
  wise 
  

   economy 
  if 
  its 
  extermination 
  could 
  be 
  attained 
  through 
  the 
  

   expenditure 
  of 
  a 
  million 
  of 
  dollars. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  recalled 
  in 
  this 
  

   connection 
  that 
  the 
  wheat-midge 
  inflicted 
  upon 
  the 
  wheat 
  crop 
  

   of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  in 
  one 
  year 
  — 
  1854 
  — 
  an 
  estimated 
  

   loss 
  of 
  fifteen 
  millions 
  of 
  dollars. 
  

  

  The 
  Destructive 
  Wheat-Midge 
  in 
  Western 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  This 
  last 
  named 
  insect, 
  Dvplosis 
  tritici, 
  has 
  been 
  noticeably 
  

   injurious 
  in 
  Western 
  New 
  York 
  this 
  present 
  season. 
  Attention 
  

   was 
  drawn 
  to 
  its 
  operations 
  in 
  the 
  wheat 
  fields 
  of 
  Orleans, 
  

   Genesee, 
  Monroe 
  and 
  other 
  neighboring 
  counties 
  during 
  the 
  

   last 
  of 
  June. 
  A 
  correspondent, 
  from 
  Monroe 
  county, 
  of 
  the 
  

   Country 
  Gentleman, 
  under 
  date 
  of 
  August 
  28th, 
  wrote 
  as 
  follows 
  

   of 
  it: 
  " 
  The 
  wheat-midge 
  has 
  done 
  much 
  damage 
  to 
  the 
  old 
  

   variety 
  of 
  wheat 
  — 
  the 
  Clawson 
  — 
  most 
  commonly 
  grown 
  here. 
  

   It 
  is 
  estimated 
  that 
  one-fourth 
  of 
  the 
  crop 
  has 
  been 
  destroyed 
  by 
  it, 
  

   and 
  farmers 
  are 
  alarmed 
  about 
  the 
  future 
  prospect 
  of 
  wheat 
  

   growing 
  in 
  this 
  section. 
  The 
  insect 
  has 
  approached 
  us 
  in 
  about 
  

   the 
  same 
  manner 
  as 
  in 
  18 
  J3-54 
  ; 
  lightly 
  at 
  first 
  but 
  increasing 
  

   until 
  the 
  entire 
  destruction 
  of 
  the 
  crop 
  in 
  1856, 
  and 
  continued 
  

   until 
  I860, 
  when 
  it 
  began 
  to 
  decrease 
  as 
  gradually 
  as 
  it 
  came, 
  

   until 
  it 
  disappeared. 
  The 
  best 
  safeguard 
  against 
  the 
  midge 
  is 
  an 
  

   early 
  variety 
  of 
  grain." 
  The 
  writer 
  commends 
  an 
  early 
  variety 
  

   of 
  red 
  wheat 
  grown 
  in 
  Michigan, 
  which 
  is 
  also 
  very 
  produc- 
  

   tive, 
  yielding 
  him 
  forty 
  bushels 
  to 
  the 
  acre 
  while 
  the 
  Clawson 
  

   seldom 
  exceeds 
  twenty 
  bushels. 
  

  

  Remarkable 
  Abundance 
  or 
  Aphides 
  or 
  Plant-Lice. 
  

   Without 
  entering 
  into 
  detail, 
  at 
  the 
  present, 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  

   operations 
  of 
  the 
  spring 
  and 
  summer 
  of 
  1893, 
  brief 
  reference 
  will 
  

   be 
  made 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  