REPORT UPON CRANBERRY AND HOP INSECTS. 



By John B. Smith. 



Sir: Herewith I transmit my report on cranberry and hop insects, to th<- study or 

 which, under your direction, I devoted the past summer. The note- with which you 

 furnished rae, and the aid and information given me during the summer in several 

 difficult matters, materially lightened the work, and enabled me to report more folly 

 than would have been otherwise possible. The damage done to both cranberries and 

 hops this season was great — greater than it had been for years past — and fully justi- 

 fied your selection of these plants as requiring special investigation. For the deter- 

 mination of larva? which I failed to raise to maturity, and for the notes on the insects 

 raised from larvae sent you, I desire also to express my thanks. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



JOHN B. SMITH. 



Prof. C. V. Riley, 



United States Entomologist. 



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To ascertain the history of these insects, I visited some of the cran- 

 berry boys of New Jersey, and some of the Cape Cod bogs. At Cape 

 Cod, Hyannis was the center of my investigations, and thence I visited 

 the bogs at Harwich and vicinity, and Cotuit and vicinity. To Mr. 

 George J. Miller, at Hyannis, I am indebted for information as ro the 

 location of the larger bogs, and as to the persons best able to aid me ; 

 to Captain Ames, at Cotuit, and Captain Cahoon, at Harwich. I am in- 

 debted for much information; while to all others, growersand those in- 

 terested in the cranberry culture, I owe thanks for uniform courtesy 

 ready assistance. My researches in the New Jersey district were princi- 

 pally carried ou in the vicinity of Bornerstown and Prospertown, and 

 most largely on the Lahaway plantations, where Dr. J. H. Hrakeley. him- 

 self no mean entomologist, and a very careful observer, gave me all as- 

 sistance' in his power, aided me in my experiments, and placed at my 

 disposal his house and all his bogs. To him and to Mr. J. T. l>rakele\ 

 I would express my sincere thanks for their courtesy. A diary kept by 

 1 >r. Iirakeley. recording the firsl appearance oi' the insects m the various 

 stages, the times of greatest plenty and the number oi' broods, togethei 

 with the experiments looking toward their destruction and I heir su. 

 or non-success, proved of greai service to me. as 1 knew thus, at least 

 approximately, what 1 had to expect. The insect enemies of the cran- 

 berry are not alike in New Jersey and Cape Cod in all respects. The 



