. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 90 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. March 21, 1908. INSECT NOTES. Practical Remedies for Insect Pests. The article reprinted below, dealing with for the destruction ot insect pests affecting agricultural crops, is from the pen of Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy, formerly Entomologist on the staff of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, and now holding a similar position under the Government of India. Although some of the insects referred to by Mr. Lefroy are not found in the West Indies, yet many of the remedial measures
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 90 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. March 21, 1908. INSECT NOTES. Practical Remedies for Insect Pests. The article reprinted below, dealing with for the destruction ot insect pests affecting agricultural crops, is from the pen of Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy, formerly Entomologist on the staff of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, and now holding a similar position under the Government of India. Although some of the insects referred to by Mr. Lefroy are not found in the West Indies, yet many of the remedial measures recommended are of general utility, and are reproduced as illustrative of lines of treatment that may with advantage be adopted in combating the ravages of insect posts in these colonies:— The ultimate aim of the study of (U•^tructive insects Is the discovery of some feasible mctlind. whereby their increase and destructiveness may eked crops preserved from their attacks. , In siu-li a quest, not only must the habits and characteristics u( each individual pest be considered, but it is of equal iniportancc to take into account the conditions under which the croj) is grown, and the iacili- ties there are for adopting anyniethod of repression. It is [irobable tliaf the scicntitic methods that appeal^ to the skilled fainier u{ iMirojieap countries will tie of little value uheu applied to the cou(litions of Indian .\griculture, and the best method that science reveals eau scarcely be regarded as suilable to the present ijroblem. In very many cases, the habits of a pest are sueli that ]iraetieally nothing is possible unless we can utilize the most up-to-date metiiods. In others, a weak |ioint can be found in the life of the jiest when it can be successfully attacked I'V .some very simiile means, (iiven some such simple remedy, thorough co-operation in its a]iplicatioii over some area is usually also necessary, and this is perhaps to he obtained only when ail unnsnal abundance of a
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