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Mr. Osborn said that there had been an unverified report of its oceur- 
rence in Iowa. He believes that the plaster treatment of the dung will 
be practicable in his State. — 
Mr. Fletcher said that many remedies which are considered imprac- 
ticable by farmers prove eventually to be very practicable, and he in- 
staneed the poisoned ball system for cutworms, and said that standing ~ 
grain can be sprayed with knapsack pumps. 
The Secretary then read the following, which was addressed to the 
President, Mr. Fletcher : 
NOTES OF THE SEASON. 
By ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, St. Albans, England. 
You pay me the compliment of suggesting that I should send a short 
report of my entomological work of this year up to present date. 
But though it would indeed be a gratification to me if anything I could 
mention should be thought of interest, yet I feel such a hesitation in 
submitting anything I can say to such a supremely well skilled tri- 
bunal as that of the meeting of the Association of Hconomic Entomolgists 
at Washington, that I will rather endeavor to give, in letter form to 
yourself, some notes of what we have been doing, from which, if you 
judge fit, you could lay some points, with my best- respects, before 
the meeting. 3 
Paris green.—\ think that I may now report the use of Paris green 
in fluid state (as a remedy for attacks of orchard caterpillars) as 
having thoroughly taken root in this country. It is not yet as widely 
spread as could be wished, but the very large amount of inquiry 
sent me during the spring and Summer months as to the nature and 
method of application of the remedy gives me good hope that its use 
is extending. | 
We have nearly, if not entirely, overcome the clamor as to the use of 
a ‘deadly poison,” and now I have rather to attend to the other side of 
the question and warn as to the necessities of care. 
My correspondents are not without a sort of dry jocoseness in the 
matter, for having cautioned one inquirer that if he sprayed his goose- 
- berries he had better have a large gooseberry pie made and consumed 
by himself and household as a proof that all was right, I presently 
received a donation of as fine green gooseberries as could be desired. 
Did he wish to transfer the experiment, | wonder? About effect of 
Paris green on leafage, one of my correspondents reports to me that in 
his plum gardens (32 acres) he syringed twice with Paris green at a 
strength of 1 ounce to 10 gallons, using the ‘‘ Gelair” sprayer. He did 
not begin until the plum blossoms fell, and had to syringe twice because 
of the badness of the attack, also because rain came. The syringing 
was very carefully done so that there was no observable dropping from 
