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deserve. More likely it is because our economic papers do not fairly 
reflect our progress in this respect, and it may be that if we were to 
exchange ideas and experiences upon these topics at this meeting we 
should iind ourselves able to improve each other's practice materially. 
A similar statement may be made respecting new economic methods 
also; that is, new methods of prevention and remedy applicable to 
insect injury. We are generally busying ourselves with those we are 
already acquainted with, or, at most, with unimportant modifications of 
the old, and have this year proposed nothing radically new. 
The insecticides and apparatus for their distribution are still prom- 
inent in our work, but I have nothing to report in the way of new in- 
secticide apparatus or of new insecticides, unless Bruner's suggestion 
of corn meal for the Cabbage Worm may be mentioned under the latter 
head. Twenty articles giving new results of experiments with stand- 
ard insecticide substances are on my list, the freshest and most notable 
of which are three on the destruction of insect eggs, by Cook, of Mich- 
igan, Smith, of New Jersey, and Slingerland, of Cornell. Others relate 
to cabbage worms, white grubs, the grass leaf- hoppers, the codling 
moth, the cutworms, the granary insects, and so on. The Bordeaux 
mixture has been further tried for entomological purposes, as reported 
by Garman of Kentucky, and a single combination experiment with 
insecticides and fungicides is described in the Cornell Bulletin. Slin- 
gerland's careful trap-lantern experiments (Canadian Entomologist for 
March) may also be mentioned here. 
I find six references to the importation of insect parasites sufficiently 
important to deserve our notice, most of them, as heretofore, contrib- 
uted by the United States Division of Entomology; one, however, by 
the West Virginia Station, whose Entomologist, Hopkins, visited 
Europe with a view to the special importation of the parasitic enemies 
of insects infesting forest trees. 
The fungous diseases of insects seem to have received but little atten- 
tion during the year, if one may judge from the slight and infrequent 
contributions to this subject. Almost the only item of special interest 
I have seen is an account of an unsuccessful experiment to destroy 
the American white grub by means of Giard's Isaria densa, a fungous 
parasite of the vers blanc of France, sufficiently prevalent there to have 
been cultivated artificially on a large scale and offered for sale to 
farmers. I may say here that our own experiments with this fungus, 
made last year, were moderately successful in the laboratory, where 
gelatine cultures were made without difficulty, and various species of 
melolonthid larvae were infected successfully by dusting .with ripened 
spores; but diseased white grubs placed in the earth with healthy ones 
did not convey the infection. 
General agricultural methods have been quite fully discussed by 
Smith for cranberry insects in his bulletin for December, 1892, but I 
think by no one else; and some curious observations on the effect of 
