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NOTES OF OBSERVATIONS OF INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
Report. Tlie subject is one of great importance to the country, and 
can only be met by well-grounded practical measures; what these 
measures are we can only tell from the experience of those who have 
carried them on in the different methods required by different soils, 
weather, and surroundings. It has been said we want statistics of the 
amount of loss from insect injury. It is hardly possible to give these 
disconnected from other points; but for those who wish to follow up 
the subject there is much information as to the amount of destruction 
our injurious insects are capable of, and the extent and amount of loss 
by special attacks, in the earlier volumes of the ‘ Journal of the Royal 
Agricultural Society,’ in the ‘ Transactions of the Entomological 
Society,’ and occasional notes in the reports of the crops in the 
‘ Gardener’s Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette.’ 
Those interested practically in the subject do not need information, 
but to the outside observer the reflection that “the crop had to be 
resown ” means that the labourer’s wages, cost of use of horses and 
implements, and cost of seed, were thrown away, besides many 
incidental expenses, including, in some cases, a certain amount for 
rent of land that has made no return, will give some general idea of the 
loss (or the proportion in which in lesser attacks it is to be calculated) 
per acre. If we look at the notes in this Report there is scarcely one 
observer who does not record definite loss; and this is hardly as one 
in a million to the amount which, in the aggregate, makes up what has 
this year been lost to the country at large. ' 
Many of those whose constant occupation keeps them from studying 
what is needed, and who find that the regularly stated remedy for the 
attack frequently fails them from want of adaptation to their particular 
circumstances, would be happy to benefit by the advance in knowledge 
of the last few years as to remedies tried and proved to be of service 
in different soils and different agricultural and climatal circumstances, 
and would probably in return make their own experience known if 
they had the opportunity. 
Any notes or communications will be received with pleasure, as 
before, by the Rev. T. A. Preston, Marlborough; E. A. Fitch, Esq., 
Maldon, Essex ; or by myself, at Dunster Lodge, near Isleworth ; and 
any information wished for will be gladly given as far as it may be in 
our power. 
E. A. ORMEROD, F.M.S. 
Dunster Lodge, near Isleworth. 
December 19 th, 1879. 
WEST, NEWMAN AND CO., PRINTERS, 54, HATION GARDEN, LONDON, E.C. 
