Vol. V, No. 4.] INSECT LIFE. [Issued April, 1893. 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



The Delay in this Number.— The publication of the present number of 

 Insect Life has been unusually delayed, partly on account of the 

 illness and absence of the Entomologist during January, and partly for 

 other reasons. The volume will probably be completed in five numbers 

 instead of six as in Volume iv, and will contain approximately the 

 same amount of matter as the preceding volumes. 



Bulletin 20 of the Massachusetts Experiment Station.* — In this bulletin 

 Prof. 0. H. Fernald treats of several insects which have been selected 

 at the request of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, 

 the Society appropriating funds by which the edition of the bulletin 

 has been increased to three times its usual size. The insects are all 

 well known pests and while they have been carefully studied at the 

 Amherst station, the author has attempted to present brief digests of 

 habits rather than to give anything new. He recommends legislation 

 to compel negligent farmers to destroy the nests of the Tent-caterpillar 

 and to provide for its destruction on public lands and forests. The in- 

 sects treated are canker-worms. Apple-tree Tent-caterpillar, Fall Web- 

 worm and the tussock moths. The tussock moths mentioned are the 

 common White-marked {Orgyia leucostigma), the Willow Tussock-moth 

 {Orgyia definita)^ and the Imported Tussock-moth {Orgyia antiqua). 

 For canker-worms, banding and the Paris green treatment are recom- 

 mended; for tent- caterpillars and Fall Web-worm the destruction of 

 the eggs and tents, and for the tussock moths spraying with Paris 

 green. 



Bulletin 48 of the Cornell Experiment Station.!— In this Bulletin Mr. E. 

 G. Lodeman discusses the efficacy of spraying apple orchards in a wet 

 season against fungus diseases and insect pests, chiefly the Codling 



''Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Bulletin 

 No. 20. Report on Insects. Amherst, Mass., January, 1893. 



tBulletin 48, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. Horticultural 

 Division. Ithaca, N. Y., December, 1892. Spraying Apple Orchards in a Wet 

 Season. By E. G. Lodeman, Assistant in Horticulture. 



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