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In the spraying operations described no glucose was used, yet the 
poison has adhered to the vines in a satisfactory manner. 
On the merits of arsenate of lead as a remedy for the fir eworm the 
writer wishes to take a conservative stand until the matter has been 
subjected to another year’s testing. From the results of the present 
season it would seem that in this insecticide we may have a remedy for 
the most important insect enemy of cranberry culture. 
Mr. Mally called attention to the prevalence of a cranberry insect, 
Teras minuta, in Ohio nurseries, where it attacked the tips of growing 
shoots. 
Mr. Forbush stated that in 1898 the cranberry bog mentioned in Mr. 
Kirkland’s paper had been sprayed with Paris green with negative 
results. 
Mr. Marlatt pointed out that the great superiority of arsenate of lead 
lay in the possibility of using strong solutions without injury to foliage. 
_ The next paper was by Mr. Webster: 
AN INTERESTING OUTBREAK OF CHINCH BUG IN NORTHERN OHIO. 
‘By F. M. Wester, Wooster, Ohio. 
In Bulletin 17, new series, Division of Entomology, U.S. Department 
of Agriculture, Dr. L. O. Howard, the author, stated that in 1886 
a timothy meadow located near Wakeman, Huron County, Ohio, was 
considerably injured by chinch bugs. Since that time the species 
has never been reported from that section of the State, and I have found 
that depredations of that particular character are only committed by 
the more or less brachypterous race. This has been supposed to be 
largely confined to the northeastern portion of the State, though there 
seems to be no good reason why it should not appear in northwestern 
Ohio also. Owing to these facts, this single occurrence in meadows, 
recorded by Dr. Howard, has puzzled me greatly. 
Last fall there came reports of very serious destruction of meadows 
in Huron and Lorain counties, which lie contiguous to each other, the 
cause being attributed to the dry, hot weather. But an eccanninatien of 
the meteorological records for that section revealed the fact that there 
had been no weather condition sufficiently severe to affect timothy 
meadows in that way. A survey of the affected meadows during early 
spring of the present year revealed the presence of great numbers of 
brachypterous chinch bugs hibernating in these meadows, and the 
problem was solved. The species had doubtless been doing more or 
less injury since 1886, entirely unknown to the farmer or anyone else, 
thus showing the extent to which their secluded life in meadows pro- 
tects them from observation. ‘This section of the State is largely 
devoted to dairying, and the meadows are not as rapidly rotated with 
