INDEX

A Page Acronycta impressa ...... 42 Agricultural Committee ...... II Agricultural Division ...... : . . . VII Agrilus ruficollis ...... 51 Agrotis ypsilon ...... 77 Alypia octomaculata ...... 72 Ampelophaga myron ...... 71 Amphicerus bicaudatus ...... 66 Anarsia lineatella ...... 74 Anasa tristis ...... 80 Angumois Grain Moth ...... 42 Animal Husbandry Division ...... • . XI Anomola marginata ...... ·' ; ...... 54 Ant Hills in Lawns ...... 179 Anthonomus signatus ...... 52 Aphis, Black, on Violets ...... • . . . 189 Aphis cucumeris ...... 80 Aphrophora 4-nota ...... • . . . . • 67 Apple Twig Borer ...... : ...... 66 Arctomys monax ...... • 162 Arsenate of Lead ...... 115 Arvicola ...... 148 B Bacon, Digestion experiments wnn ...... 270, 272 Barn Swallow ...... 132 Basswood, Galls on ...... 185 Bay-Winged Bunting ...... 134 Buds, common ...... 12S Blight of potatoes defined...... 1 Board of Regents ...... II Bolting-Cloth Beetle ...... 46 Bordeaux Mixture for potato blight and rot ...... 5 Borer, Stalk ...... 51 Bordeaux Mixture ...... 83, 115 Box Elder, Gallmakers on ...... 185 Blackberry Insects ...... 47 Black-capped Titmouse ...... 135 Blight on Melon ...... • ...... 83 Blue Bird ...... 129 Bracon brevicornis ...... 36 Bracon hebetor ...... 36 Bramble Crown Borer ...... 49 Bridge-grafting ...... ·...... 157, 164 278 INDEX

Brooder Houses • ...... 248 Brown Aphis on Violets ...... 189 Bud Moth ...... 52 Bulletins Published during the Year ...... CV ...... Bumble Flower Beetle ...... 4 73 Byturus unicolor ...... 52 c Cabbage Maggot ...... 17?, Cabbage Worm ...... 174, 178 Cacoecia rosaceana ...... 54 Cadelle ...... 46 Calandria granaria ...... 41 C. oryza ...... 41 Gane Borer, Red-necked ...... 51 Caterba catenaria ...... 53 Cecidomyia aceris ...... 172 C. negundinis ...... 186 C. robiniae ...... 188 Chain- dotted Geometer ...... 153 Chemical Division ...... IX Chickadee ...... 135 Chickens, marketing ...... 257 Chicks, Food and Care of ...... 25~ Chinch Bug ...... 15 Ghremylas rubiginosus ...... 36 Combination of Humus with Phosphates in soils ...... 205 Combination of Humus with Potash of soils ...... 208 Composition of Heavy and Light 'Veight Seeds ...... 218 Confused Flour Beetle ...... 43 Ccrn, Gi'Itenous and starchy ...... 221 Correspondents, Reports of ...... 121 Corrosive Sublimate Treatment for scab ...... 8 Cottage Cheese, Digestibility and Nutritive Value of ...... 2GO 272 Cottony Manie Scale ...... 67, 181 "Cotton-tail" ...... 149 Craponius inaeoualis ...... 74 Cryptorhyncus lapathi ...... 115 Crop rotation ...... 192 Cucumber Insects ...... 80 Cucumber Beetle, Striped ...... 81 Cucumber Flea Beetle ...... 82 Currant and Gooseberry Insects ...... 5G Currant Borer, Imported ...... 56 Currant Worm, Imported ...... 58 Currant Caterpillar, Spiny ...... 61 Currant Fly ...... 63 Currant Fruit Worm ...... 63 Currant Plant Louse...... 59 Currant Span Worm ...... 60 Cut Worms ...... ·...... ·...... 7·7, 171 D Dairy Division ...... IX Desmia maculalis ...... 69 Diabrotica, 12 Spotted ...... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 8p Diabrotica, 12 punctata ...... 82 INDEX 279

Diabrotica vittata ...... 81 Di<>;est!on Experiments ...... 259 Directors Report ...... V Downy Woodpecker ...... 136 D~1st Sprayers ...... 106 E l".cbccerus maxillosus ...... 44 Eight-spotted Forester ...... 72 Empoasca albopicta ...... 59 Empoasca mali ...... 91 Entomology Division ...... XI Ephestia kuehniella ...... 17 Euphoria inda ...... 73 Epitrix cu cum eris ...... : ...... 82 English sparrow ...... 142 Eupithecia interruptofasciata ...... 61 Eudemis botrana ...... 73

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F~lse Chinch Bug ...... 16· Farm manure ...... 192 Fidia viticida ...... 64 Field Mice ...... 144, 153, 156 Financial statement ...... V Flax Seed, light and dark colored compared ...... 226 Flea-like Negro Bug ...... 55 Flicker ...... 137 Flc;wer Garden, Entomological Suggestions for the...... 17'7 Food Habits of Some of Our Common Birds ...... 128 Formula for Dry Bordeaux Mixture ...... 6 Formc1la fer wet Bordeaux Mixture ...... 5 Frit Fly ...... 14

G Geomys bursarius ...... 146 GL1'.:enous and Starchy Grains ...... 219 Golden-winged Woodpecker ...... 137 Gooseberry Fruit ·worm ...... 62 Gooseberry Insects ...... 47 Gophers, Field Mice, etc ...... 144 Gor;her, Gray ...... 154, 158 Gopher, Pocket ...... 146, 153, 158 Gopher, Thirteen-lined ...... 151, 157 Gopher Gun ...... 160 Gopher Trap ...... 160 Grain Plant Lice ...... 190 Grains, heavy and light weight ...... 214 Q-ranary Weevil ...... 41 (}rape Insects ...... 63 Qrapta comma ...... , ...... - ...... 61 (}rape-vine Fidia ...... 64, 67 Grape-vine Flea Beetle ...... 68 Grape:vfne Phylloxera ...... 63 Grape Curculio ...... 74 Grape Leaf Folder ...... 69 28Q INDEX

Grape Leaf Hopper ...... · ...... ·...... ·70 Grape "Thrip" ...... -· .. ; .. : . .• : ...... •. : ...... 70 Grape-vine Sphinx ...... : ..... ·...... : .. : . . .71 Grass Finch ...... ; ...... ·.. , ...... - . , .. : ...... ·...... ·134 Ground Squirrel ...... ·. ; ..... '..: ...... ;_, .. : ... .'....• 154, 158 H. Haltica chalybea ...... ~ : . , : -~ · Harpalus pennsylvanicus ...... ·.... ' .. :. 7~ . Heavy and Light Weight Grains ...... : ...... '... 214 · . Hens, laying, Fall and Winter care ..... ; ...... ·. , 254 Hessian Fly ...... • . . . .. Hi· High-hole ...... : ...... : ...... : 1.37 · Horticultural Division ...... VIII •· Hydraecia nitela ...... ·...... · .... , .. ". . . . 51 .. :

Idechthis ephestiae ...... _...... ·... · 30 Identification of insects ...... , .. .'. . . 124 Incubation, artificial ...... : : ...... : ... : 246 Incubation, natural ...... : ...... ·. 251- Indian Meal Moth ...... ·...... · 42 Influence of crop rotations on ,fertility of soil ...... ; ...... · 192 Inspection of Nurseries ...... :.·;.;, ..• 119. K Kero-water Sprayers ...... • . . . . . 104 Key to Insects Affecting Raspberries, Blackberries,'Curripits, etc .. · 47 L Lachnosterna fusca . . . . . • ...... 76 Leaf Bug, Four-lined ...... : ...... 60 Leaf Hopper ...... ·. . . . . 59 Leaf Hopper, Work Against ...... : ...... 84 Leaf Roller, Oblique ...... 54, 77 Lepus americanus ...... · ...... 149 Lepus campestris ...... 148 L. nutalli sylvestris ...... • ...... 149 Letter of Transmittal ...... - ...... III Light and Dark Colored Flax Seeds ...... 226 Light-loving Anomala ...... 54, {'8 Losses of Nitrogen during humification ...... 209 Louse, Melon ...... 80 Lygaeus turcicus ...... 16 Lygus pratensis ...... 53

M Macrodactylus subspinosus ...... 69 Marsh Hawk ...... 140 May Beetle ...... 76 Meadow Lark ...... 133 Meal Snout Moth ...... 43 Mediterranean Flour Moth ...... 17 Melon Blight ...... 83 Melon Louse ...... 80 INDEX 281

l\ilelori Insects . , ...... : .... , ...... 80, ·83 Meromyza americana, Fitch ...... : . ··'...... ·15 MiCe Field· ...... ·.. : ...... 144, 153, 156 Mildew. on Roses·, ...... · ...... , ..•.· ...... 179 Milling, Tests of ·Wheat ...... · ...... 232 Mole ...... :, ... ., .. : ..... ·.... .- ... , .. , ...... '. ... : ...... 145, 154, 163 lHottled.. Willow. Bore.r .•...... , ..... : ...... _...... 115 N :Nem~tus '-ventricosus ...... 58 ·~}gpt'· Ba wk' ...... 139 ··'Nitrogen in Humus ..... '. . .,...... 210 : Northeast Experiment Farm ...... XIII Northwest Experiment Farm ...... •...... XIII .. Nozzles ...... -...... 98 . N_ursery .Inspection ...... 119 · ·Nutriel).ts in Heavy and Light Weight Seeds ...... 218 .. ~ysius. angustatus ...... 16

0 Oats, Glutenous and Starchy ...... 224 Obere.a bimaculata ...... 50 Oeca.nthtis, sp ...... , ...... 49 01Ircers of Station .... : ...... ·.... II Onion Maggot...... 17 4 Oscinis soror, 1\!Iacq ...... 14 p Paeeilcicapsus · uneatus ...... 61l Pale Brown ~Y.turus ...... 52 Peas, Digestion Experiments with ...... 267, 270 Pelidnota punctata ...... 72 Pigeon ·woodpecker ...... 137 Phoebe ...... :...... 130 Phoxopteris comptana ...... ·...... 77 Phyllotreta vittata ...... 78 Phylloxera vastatrix ...... 63 Pitchy-legged Otiorhyncus ...... 75 Plant Bug, Tarnished ...... 53 Plant food of soils ...... 198 Plant lice ...... 177 Plea for Some of Our Common Birds ...... 128 Plodia interpunctella ...... 42 Plum Curculio, an Enemy to Apples ...... 109 Polychrosis viteana ...... 73 Poplar Borer, Striped ...... l SA. Potato Blight ...... ·...... 175 ·Potato Bug ...... 175 Potatoes at University Farm ...... 1 Potatoes, Seedling ...... 9 Potato yields ...... 2 Poultry Culture in Minnesota ...... 239 Poultry Division ...... ·. . . . XII Poultry Houses and Runs ...... 242 Prionus laticollis ...... 48 Production of Humus in soils ...... 203 282 INDEX

Publications of Experiment Stations for Fiscal year ending June 30th, 1905...... IV Pulvinaria innumerabilis ...... 181 Pyralis farinalis ...... 43 R Rabbits ...... 144, 148, 152, 155 Rabbit, Jack ...... 144, 148, 152, 155 Rabbit, Cottontail ...... 144, 148, 152, 155 Raspberry and Blackberry Insects ...... 47 Raspberry Cane Borer ...... 50 Raspberry Dagger Moth ...... 53 Raspberry Fruit Worm ...... 55 Raspberry Geometer ...... 55 Red Headed Systena ...... 71 Remedies for Rabbits, Mice, etc ...... , ...... 154 Reports of Correspondents ...... 121 Rhopalosiphum violae ...... 189 Rice, Digestion Experiments with ...... 2G3, 2G7 Rice Weevil ...... ·...... 41 Root Borer. Giant ...... 48 Rose Chafer ...... G9, 74, 178 Rose Beetle ...... ' ...... 69, 74, 178 Rose Bug ...... ~ ...... 69, 74, 178 Rot of Potatoes defined ...... 1 Jl ~1sted \Vhea t ...... 228 Rusted Wheat Straw, composition of ...... 229 Rye, Glutenous and starchy ...... 224 s San Jose Scale ...... 57 Saw-toothed Grain Beetle ...... 45 Scab of Potatoes ...... 7 Scale, Cottony Maple ...... 181 Scale, Lecanium on Scotch Pine ... ·...... 183 Sciapteron polistiformis ...... '...... 65 Screech Owl ...... 141 8eedling potatoes ...... 9 Sesia tipuliformis ...... ·...... 56 Silvanus surinamensis ...... 46 Sitotroga cerealella ...... ·. . . . . 42 Slender-horned Four Beetle ...... 44 Slugs ...... 179, 180 Slugs on Lettuce ...... 17fi Snail, Naked ...... 180 Snowy Tree Cricket ...... 49, 66 Soft Maple, Gallmakers on ...... 185 Soil investigation ...... 192 Soils, Plant Food of ...... 198 Soils, Humus in ...... 200 Some of our Common Birds ...... 128 Spelosoma virginica ...... 62 Spermophilus richardsonii ...... 1!}2 S. franklinii ...... 151 8. tridecemlineatus ...... 15·0 Spittle Insect ...... '...... 67 Spotted Paria ...... 77 INDEX 283 ·

Spotted Pelidnota ...... , ...... 72 Spraying and Spraying Machinery ...... 92 Spraying Machinery, List of Manufacturers ...... 97 Squash Insects ...... 80 Squash Bug, True ...... 80 Stal~ Borer ...... 51, 78, 175;, 177 Stat10n Officers ...... '. II Strawberry Insects ...... 47 Strawberry Weevil ...... 52, 7g Strawberry Root Borer ...... 74 Strawberry Crown Borer ...... 75 Striped Cucumber Beetle ...... 81 Striped Flea Beetle ...... 78 Synchlora glaucaria ...... 55 T Tarnished Plant Bug ...... 78 Tenebrio molitor ...... 45 Tenebroides mauritanicus ...... 37, 46 Thymaris slingerlandana ...... 73 Toad, The Common, a Friend to Gardeners ...... 166 Tmetocera ocellana ...... ·...... 52 Trapezonotus nebulosus ...... 16 Tribolium confusum ...... 36, 44 Turkeys ...... 258 Tyloderma fragariae ...... 75 Typhlocyba, sp ...... 70 v Varieties of potatoes ...... 3 Vesper Sparrow ...... 134 Vesper Bird ...... 134 Veterinary Division ...... X w Weevil, Strawberry ...... 52 \Vheat ...... 219 Wheat, Glutinous and Starchy ...... 219 Wheat, Milling Tests of ...... 232 Wheat, Rusted ...... 228 Wheat Stem Maggot ...... 15 vl'heat straw, rusted, composition of ...... 229 Wire Worms ...... 76, 172 \Voodchuck ...... •...... 162 y Yellowhammer ...... 137 Yell ow Bear, Common ...... 62 Yellow Meal Worm ...... 45 z Zophodia grossulariae ...... 62