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3. THE HOP. 
AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 
Eating numerous holes of various sizes in the leaf, often consuming nearly 
all the leaves except their veins; a small pale green worm with whitish 
stripes and black dots placed symmetrically. 
The Hop-vine Snout-moth, Hypena Humuli. Harris, H. rostralis ? Linnxus. 
(plate 1, fig. X.) 
Although throughout our country generally, no attention is 
given to the cultivation of the hop, it is a staple product of a 
few of the central counties of our own State, and at times a most 
lucrative crop, yielding its growers munificent returns. Nearly 
three-fourths of all the hops produced in the United States are 
raised in the State of New-York, the single county of Otsego, 
according to the cenus of 1850, yielding over a million of pounds, 
and the adjoining counties of Madison, Oneida, and Herkimer each 
much surpassing any other districts of similar extent in any part 
of our country. 
In England, where the hop has been extensively cultivated 
for a long time, it is well known that it is liable to be severely 
depredated upon at times, by insects ; insomuch that the revenue 
which the government derives from this source is extremely 
fluctuating, frequently varying to the amount of half a million 
of dollars per annum. And Kirby and Spence, alluding to this 
subject, say: “ The hop-grower is wholly at the mercy of insects. 
They are the barometer that indicates the rise and fall of his 
wealth.” In our own country this crop appears to be similarly 
exposed to injury from this class of beings, that it is abroad. 
The larvae of the insect which we have named above, is with us 
the most universal and formidable of these depredators, making 
their appearance suddenly, and in a few days sometimes, and 
before their presence is noticed, completely riddling and destroy¬ 
ing the leaves of whole fields. 
These worms begin to appear upon the leaves as early ns the 
fore part of June, and by the middle of that month they will be 
found of all sizes. The vines are now rapidly climbing the poles, 
a nd the older leaves, near the ground, where the dense foliage 
enables the worms to secret themselves more securely, are those 
