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figures may appear, they at least tend to show that our material wealth 
„and prosperity depend most intimately on the favor shown to science and 
the enco PM GU given to original research, however abstruse, by men 
of scientific t 
To save a iere of this annual loss of food stuffs and fruits should be 
the first object of farmers and gardeners. They eke out a bare livelihood 
n 
the "dst amount raised. 
Fig. 131. P 
Could they save what is wasted by 
e ' insects they would grow rich; 
a 
e 
ined use of proper remedies against the canker worm, and other noxious 
caterpillars and cut worms? A few of the more enlightened and indus- 
trious sort are forehanded and cae in restraining these pests. A law 
carried out by a proper State Entomological constabulary, if we may so 
designate it, would compel idle mma shiftless neighbors to clear their 
farms and gardens. We doubt that if a State would appoint a 
State Entomologist with ane cone ane who should dio the fields 
and report neglect in killing injurious insects to the town authorities, by 
whom delinquents should be fined, many times the cost of iE 
such a bureau would be saved to the State. Indeed, why should we n 
have an Insect law, as well as Fish and Game laws? 
Among some of the injurious insects reported on by Mr. Riley is a new 
st to the cucumber in the West, the Pickle worm ( Phacellura nitidalis 
Cramer, Fig. 126). This is a cater- 
pillar which bores into the cucum- 
"b n large enough to pickle, 
and it is occasionally found in 
Three o worm 
Fig. 132. 
a single one will cause the cucum- 
ber to rot. He also gives us 
excellent drawings of the Vine 
Acolcithus Americana. 
pupa; Fig. 128 adult ;), a sin 
ae ad of idea will som rat * strip a small vine of its leaves in 
a few nights," and sometimes nips off bunches of half-grown grapes. 
Another caterpillar, which sometimes is so abundant as to nearly defoli- 
e the e is the Alypia 8-maculata Fabr. (Fig. 129; a, larva; b, 
