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other crops aS where the cereals are grown more extensively. It 
looks as though we might soon discover that the price of butter and 
cheese had a decidedly beneficial influence on the chinch bug, even if 
it does not aid in the diffusion of this brachypterous, maritime race. 
The matter stands in about this position: The higher the price of dairy 
products, which is due to consumption of these products of course, the 
greater the area of timothy meadows; and as this lessens the area 
devoted to cereals there will be less rotation, thus allowing the mead- 
ows to remain intact for years, so far as the plow is concerned, thereby 
offering this peculiar form of the chinch bug the very conditions most, 
favorable for its increase and diffusion. 
Mr. Mally called attention to the fact that in the insects involved in 
this outbreak variations were found from the brachypterous almost to 
the long-winged form. 
Association adjourned to 11 a. m., August 19. 
MORNING SESSION, AUGUST 19. 
Association met pursuant to adjournment, President Marlatt in the 
chair. 
The first paper presented was the following: 
SOME INSECTS OF THE YEAR IN GEORGIA. 
By A. L. QUAINTANCE, Experiment, Ga. 
There seems to be but little collected data on the injurious insects 
occurring in Georgia, and the following notes on certain insects sent in 
by correspondents, or on those observed by myself, principally at the 
experiment station, may be of interest to the Association. 
The beanleaf-beetle, Cerotoma trifurcata, has been very numerous in 
various parts of the State. At the station adults were noticed on 
garden beans in considerable numbers by April 20, and from this date 
they seemed to increase in abundance for a period of about two weeks. 
In many bean patches the plants were quite stripped of leaves, and for a 
period of three or four weeks bean plants were practically at a standstill, 
and while, in most cases, plants eventually started growth again, the 
effect of defoliation was quite marked in the small yield of. beans. 
Early cowpeas were also badly damaged and made but little growth 
while infested with the beetles. 
Tests with Paris green against this insect were disappointing. The 
strongest spray—l pound of Paris green to 75 gallons of water—did not 
seem to kill them, and but little, if any, diminution in their number 
could be noticed on a patch entirely sprayed with this strength of the 
poison. Although the mixture was neutralized with an excess (2 
pounds) of lime, bean foliage was badly scalded. 
