. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XV. No. 382. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 411 ?when the May rains come on, and in the latter case the August dry weather would soon put an end to their activity. HAED BACK ENEMIES. In lyi-t yir. Moore found a parasitic grub feeding on a hard back grub. The adult parasite turned out to be Tiphia parallela, the same species of S 'oliid wasp which is believed to control the browD hard back (Pliytalus sndthi) in Barbados. In 1915 numerous cocoons of this same wasp were found in one of the fields at Xon Pareil estate in
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XV. No. 382. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 411 ?when the May rains come on, and in the latter case the August dry weather would soon put an end to their activity. HAED BACK ENEMIES. In lyi-t yir. Moore found a parasitic grub feeding on a hard back grub. The adult parasite turned out to be Tiphia parallela, the same species of S 'oliid wasp which is believed to control the browD hard back (Pliytalus sndthi) in Barbados. In 1915 numerous cocoons of this same wasp were found in one of the fields at Xon Pareil estate in the earth about the cane stools. The parasites had nearly all emerged. Parasitic eggs and larvae were also found attached to hard back grubs. Dielis dorsatu, another Scoliid wasp, was occasionally observed in cane fields, but whicli particular hard back it parasitizes has not been determined. Kopkop ants were noticed feeding on the grubs of the small black hard back. • UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The editorial in a recent issue of the Experiment Station Reiord states that an Act has recently been passed which considerably extends and enlargens the functions and activi- ties of the United States Department of Agriculture, and establishes a new high-water-mark in the appropriations for its maintenance. Some of the more interesting directions in which more money is to be spent may be referred to in this note since they are not devoid of signifiance with regard to the West Indies. It may not be out of place also to make definite acknowledgement of the great value to the West Indies of much of the literature issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, though perhaps this is in view of the large amount of space devoted to American information in this Journal. In regard to the special subject under consideration, the Weather Bureau is to receive an increase of $81,210, of which -540,000 is for the of the weather service to the Ca
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