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itself on the side of hills or the upper portion of slopes where the veg- 
etation is scattered. Its near ally, D. carolina,is found throughout 
North America following civilization in cattle yards, roads, and streets. 
He had also seen the dead locusts in one locality in eastern Colorado 
and considered that they had been killed by hail. 
Mr. Popenoe said that he had really found that they had stopped 
trains, but upon steep grades only and by greasing the rails. 
Mr. Osborn has found this species in southwestern Kansas in the 
higher portions of river valleys and feeding upon the grass along the 
roads. 
Mr. Beckwith presented the following: 
NOTES ON A CORN CRAMBID. 
By M. H. Beckwitu, Newark, Del. 
[Secretary’s abstract. ] 
For three years the author had heard complaints in the southern 
counties of Deiaware of an insect called by the people a “ Cutworm.” 
This year at the experiment farm at Dover many hills were destroyed by 
this insect which he had had an opportunity to study. The land was in 
Timothy last year and planted to Corn the present season. Large num- 
bers of the larvee were found, sometimes 30 in a hill, working around the 
outside of the stalk below the surface of the ground in silken galleries, 
but not boring into the heart of the stalk. He had sent specimens of 
the moth which he reared to the Department of Agriculture and it 
had been determined for him as Crambus caliginosellus. He had tried 
Paris green, but does not know with what effect: 
Mr. Smith had heard of a similar attack on Corn in New Jersey. He 
advised the farmers to put on a heavy dose of kainit just after plowing 
and had heard no more complaints. 
Mr. Osborn suggested that if the insect works like Crambus exsiccatus 
plowing at the right time will prove effective. 
Mr. Howard said that the insect was abundant in 1886 at Bennings, 
Md., and that the only remedy which he was able to suggest at that 
Fe was plowing immediately after harvest. 
Mr. Alwood doubted whether kainit would act as well as the refuse 
salt from meat-packing establishments, which he had found to be a good 
cut-worm remedy if sowed before planting. 
Mr. Smith recommended kainit because it is a fertilizer as well as an 
insecticide. 
Mr. Alwood stated that kainit is a bad form of potash for tomatoes 
and potatoes. 
Mr. Southwick said that his grandfather used to drop a salt herring 
into each corn hill as a preventive against Cutworms. ; 
