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or more from the nests and were destroying the leaves at a 

 rapid rate. May 10. Colorado potato beetles [Doryphora 

 10 - 1 i n e a t a] 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 5$ to 20$. 

 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 a spar a gi] and 

 striped cucumber beetles [Diabrotica vittata] are pres- 

 ent in usual numbers. Currant worms [Pteronus r i b e s i i], 

 are scarce. June 6. I am unable to learn pf 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 thick, and 

 examination showed that they had been cutting off the 

 leaves and eating into the stems of the plants. Both 

 sweet and sour cherries have been nearly ruined by the 



