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From Dr. Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, I learned 
th at this malady had ^edjn «ate, — onj 
^gricuWnral^xperimen? Statiom^^In a* subsequent letter, the lat¬ 
ter gentleman contributed the interesting information that Prof. 
Arthur the botanist of the station, had experimented with refer¬ 
ence to the contagious character of the disease X^lfvTng P a °'i 
tions of the bodies of larvse recently dead. to still living amA 
healthy worms, the effect being the spfeedy sickness and deathof 
thim treated From William Saunders, Fsq., or uiiv.an.. 
Canada I learned October 5, 1885, that there seemed to be no 
traces of the disease among the cabbage worms of his vicim J; 
Prof Snow of Topeka, Kansas, likewise informed me in 188o 
that it certainly had not appeared in his vicinity; but m August, 
1886, I received from correspondents m Kansas specimens appar¬ 
ently suffering from a mild form of this affection. Mr. E. • 
Doran* of Loudon, Tennessee, Assistant Entomologist to the 
Board of Agriculture of that State, reported to me both m ISSo 
and in 1886 that he was unable to detect any evidence of - 
occurrence there. 
In the southern part of the State the solitary caterpillar 
(CaWmorpha lecontei) has lately become excessively numerous 
H-.iV A period of il. .otivitj lri« '»™' 
capable of great injury to raspberry plants The caterpi ^ 
the stems, maw the. swelling buds, and eat tne }oun 
leaves as fast as they put forth. Spraying with arsenic has proved 
ineffective, because the rapidly unfolding leaves aftoid.an al 
dance of fresh food soon after the application of the poison. 
Hand picking has given the only satisfactory protection. 
In the course of a series of experiments performed upon the 
CODLING MOTH (Carpocapsa pomonella), this ispecies has en d 
at our hands extraordinary attention m all its relatmns. Aae 10 
orate account of our observations respecting its 1We history and 
its susceptibility to remedial measures is given m anothei aitic e, 
and I add here only facts showing the ab ^ nt ^ n ^ 0 ° jg^m- 
during the two successive years. Of near y . ’ . -^-ioqk q 
med from trees used as checks upon our experiments m 1885^ and 
which, consequently, had not been treated (With an . nsecU 
oide fifty-nine per cent, had been infested by the cod. g 
a proportion doubtless unusually great, and due m pait to t 
exlxaordinarv scarcity of apples following a year of great abun¬ 
dance. In 1888, onihe other hand, 
abundant one, following the scanty crop of rine 
ilar examination of 5,000 apples showed that only thirty-nine p 
*,ent. were infested. 
That dread enemy of the cereal crops, the notorious army m OR! 
/ HTnMiunivuneta), occurred in injurious numbers m 188. 
SougCt SoXern Illinois, from Bond and Wabash counties t< 
