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Grasshopper Outlook in California for 1892. 
We were visited by grasshoppers in this vicinity last year and much damage was 
done by them. We should very much like to know whether there is a probability 
of their being with us another year or not.—[C. M. Silva & Son, California, February 
16, 1892. 
REPLY.— The subject of grasshopper damage in your State was investi- 
gated last year by an agent of this Division, under instructions. The probabilities 
favor a decided decrease over the damage of last season. The natural enemies of the 
locust were reported as being present in considerable numbers, and the probabilities 
are that we will have a season comparable to that of 1886, when, after the very severe 
locust year of 1885, almost no damage was done.—[February 23, 1892.] 
Loss from Grain Weevils in Texas—The Bisulphide of Carbon Remedy. 
For many years in succession J had my corn in the bin more or less ruined by wee- 
vils. From my own experience in this line, and what I know from other sources, I 
should judge that there is an annual loss of over a million of dollars from weevils | 
in Texas alone. 
Last fall, in putting up my corn, I placed two open bottles containing bisulphide of 
carbon about 4 feet apart on the floor of the bin. The mouths of these bottles were 
covered with a single layer of cheese-cloth, and each bottle covered with an old 
broken box. The corn was thrown on these boxes and the bin filled to its utmost 
capacity. 
The result of this experiment was highly successful. What live weevils were 
admitted from the field were destroyed, and none further appeared. Thus at a cost 
of 50 cents, with very little trouble, 1 effectually protected about 500 bushels of corn 
against the weevils. Another feature about this experiment is that I have noticed 
neither mouse nor rat in the bin, nor any traces of them, which was not the case 
before, for in previous years they too had done great damage to the corn.—[G. P. 
Hackenberg, M. D., Texas, January 28, 1892. 
Addition of Lime to the Arsenical Spray. 
* + * The first application to my apples was made when the apples were about 
the size of cherries, with blossom end erect, using London purple in the proportion of 
4 ounces to 50 gallons of water, to which was added about 6 or 8 pounds of slaked 
lime. The second was made about two weeks later and the third in three weeks, just 
before harvest, the last solution containing one-half pound London purple to 50 gal- 
lons of water and about 10 pounds lime. As to results, our apples were practically 
free from worms, and in the many bushels which we have used in the past winter but 
one wormy apple has been found. Before picking time an examination of the trees 
showed that on the unsprayed trees fully 50 per cent were wormy, while on the sprayed 
those which were wormy were very few, and these all fell off in the fall. The trees 
retained their leaves late in the fall and the fruit was very free from the green fun- 
gous growth which affects the apple in this section. The two last results I attribute 
to the large quantity of lime used, the leaves looking as if whitewashed after dry- 
ing. No such perfect and fair fruit was raised in ourimmediate section as my own.— 
[E. P. Carroll, jr., Pennsylvania, February 22, 1892. 
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Physianthus vs. the Codling Moth.—A Disclaimer. 
= * * I note your reference on page 98 of your Annual Report for 1887 to Physi- 
anthus. My connection with the matter was, however, misunderstood by most of 
the newspaper people who wrote on the matter. A friend of mine residing at Wan- 
ganui sent me some seeds of the Physianthus, stating that he believed that it would 
be useful by catching the Codling Moth, and asked me to distribute the seeds among ~ 
