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Show Through the kindness of lion. .los. Howell, vc publish in part a letter received by him fiom the Agricultural Department at Washington, which explains Itself. "The Insect which ou sent Is the common tent caterpillar of the orchard (Malacosoma, Cllslocampa, Disstria Hubncr.) These caterpillars can be killed by spraying the trees with parts green or London purple in the proportion of a quarter of a pound of the poison to forty gallons of water. I regret that wc have no literature on tills species. Very Respectfully, L. H() WAUL). |