REPORT 
ON THI 
OP THE 
STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
By Asa Fitch, M. D. 
Executive Committee of the New-Yorlc State Agricultural Society: 
I herewith present a second Report on the Noxious and other 
Insects of the State, continuing the account of those species which 
are injurious to fruit and forest trees, and commencing those 
which are injurious to field crops. The Report heretofore pre¬ 
sented has been so favorably received, and has made the plan 
and character of the work in which I am occupied so generally 
known, that no explanations upon this subject are required. 
Nor is it necessary that I should say a word upon the importance 
of this Survey of the Economical Entomology of our State, our 
citizens being universally aware of its value, and of the benefits 
which will result to agriculturists, orchardists, and others 
from being informed how they may manage their crops, treat 
their fruit trees, &c., to shield them from the depredations of in¬ 
sects. Yet but a small part of the injury which we are sustain¬ 
ing from this class of creatures is at present known. Many of 
them are so minute, so seemingly insignificant and powerless, 
and conduct their operations where they are so concealed from 
view, that the damage which they occasion is currently imputed 
to other causes, and the real culprit is never suspected. Thus, 
h is commonly supposed that the reason why we now fail to 
raise such crops of wheat as our lands produced when they were 
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