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pests were fully as destructive as elsewhere. Aside from the great 
injury inflicted upon sugar bush here and there, these caterpillars 
attracted great attention from their appearing in large numbers on 
shade trees in many villages and cities. Had it not been for most 
energetic efforts on the part of both local authorities and private 
parties, a large proportion of the thousands of sugar maples which 
adorn the village of Saratoga Springs would have been defoliated. So 
serious was the situation that a special circular was issued and dis- 
tributed through the village, in order to place in the hands of every 
person concise directions for controlling this pest. Shade trees in 
Albany, Schenectady, and other places along the Mohawk River were 
attacked, and in a number of instances the trees were defoliated. In 
certain villages 10 cents a quart was offered for all cocoons collected. 
As a result, 1,350 quarts were purchased by the village of Glens Falls, 
450 by Mohawk, and reports of similar work in several other places 
also came to my knowledge. 
ELM LEAF-BEETLE. 
In Albany, Troy, and vicinity, this pest, Galerucella luteola, has been 
as injurious as in preceding years, except as it has been controlled by 
Spraying with arsenites. As this pest has established itself in force 
at Worcester, Mass., and in a number of towns in the same county, it 
is very probable that it will in the course of-time make its way over a 
much larger portion of the State of New York than has hitherto been 
supposed it might occupy. Up to the present I have yet to learn of its 
establishing itself recently in new territory in the State. In both 
Albany and Troy large amounts of arsenate of lead have been used 
with most excellent results when the applications have been timely and 
thorough. W. H. Swift & Co.’s prepared paste was used at the rate of 
4 pounds to 100 gallons of water. In Troy over 1,500 pounds of this 
insecticide was applied to the trees, and the party using it is highly 
pleased with the results. Probably an equal amount was used in 
Albany. Troy furnishes an interesting example of what the elm leaf- 
beetle can do. Its ravages there have been much worse than in Albany, 
and yet the city authorities did nothing to check it, except some spray- 
ing in public parks. There was a great demand for spraying apparatus 
operated by skilled men, and the result has been that one individual 
has fitted up two power-spraying outfits of a most approved type. The 
first one began operations last summer and the second one the present 
season. Their owner has had more work than he could attend to, and 
it is to be presumed that he has not lost money. 
ASPARAGUS BEETLES. 
The twelve-spotted asparagus beetle, Crioceris 12-punctata, was found 
at Brighton, N. Y., in 1893. Last August I was somewhat surprised 
to receive examples of the same species from M. F. Adams, of Buf- 
