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owing to the thinness of crop. There is no doubt the Weevils would 
not have done a quarter of the injury had it been a growing time, but 
the weather was cold, and the Peas could not get away. The loss on 
the nine acres of Peas cannot be put at less than £50, without 
reckoning the increased foulness of the land and loss of straw together 
probably £20 more. On the Vetch crop the damage was over £20. 
For all from £90 to £100 loss must be laid to the score of this 
insect pest. 
Professor Allen Harker, writing from the Eoyal Agricultural 
College on the subject of Sitones in the Peas and Vetches, mentions 
—“I have no doubt they liybernate, as individual specimens have 
occurred now and then since January.” 
PINE. 
Pine Beetle. Hylurgus piniperda, Curtis. 
1 and 2, Pine shoots pierced by beetles ; 3, 4, Pine Beetle, nat. size and magnified ; 
e e, jaws ; f g, chin, with feelers, &c., magnified. 
Mr. Robert Coupar, Old Scone, N.B., remarks relatively to Pine 
Beetles having been observed laying their eggs in the bark of growing 
trees, that he has noticed this, but that in every instance which he 
observed the trees had fallen into a sickly state, and therefore were 
quite suitable for attack from the beetle. He remarks that although 
the beetles do not breed in trees too far gone in decay, yet that he has 
never met with quite robust and healthy trees being selected for egg- 
laying and breeding purposes, but the most healthy are attacked by 
the beetles for food, and in these they tunnel the young shoots. Mr. 
Coupar notes that in one young plantation where attack was bad he 
found many of the cones tunnelled. 
The best methods of keeping off attack are noted (as before) to be 
