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 . ..