. [Report of the commissioners] [microform] : appendices C to F inclusive, containing evidence taken by the commissioners, special reports, etc. in vols. III, IV and V. Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. AN IMPORTATION FROM THE STATES. This Province was free from the insect, almost entirely, not many years ago and it has been imported from the United States, where it has existed for a very much loneer time. •' ° LATE SOWING SUGGESTED. I remember proposing some years ago, as a measure of protection, that the seed should he sown very
. [Report of the commissioners] [microform] : appendices C to F inclusive, containing evidence taken by the commissioners, special reports, etc. in vols. III, IV and V. Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. AN IMPORTATION FROM THE STATES. This Province was free from the insect, almost entirely, not many years ago and it has been imported from the United States, where it has existed for a very much loneer time. •' ° LATE SOWING SUGGESTED. I remember proposing some years ago, as a measure of protection, that the seed should he sown very late, but that would be a very ticklish remedv, as the danger would be very great of the crop not maturing. Another remedy I proposed was that some good seed of an early variety should be sown very early in the spring, and that, as soon as the crop aiatured, a portion of it should be sown again, in order to get a second crop the same season, in which the beetle would not have time to mature. Such a plan is possible with great care, but it is not an easy thing to carry two crops of peas to maturity in one year. "' THE ALGOMA DISTRICT FREE FROM THE BUG. Mr. Saunders stated that the Algoma District was entirely free from the bu", and that it consequently afforded a Held from which to obtain a supply of uninfested' seed peas. It would appear that the insect did not thrive there, for he (Mr. Saunders), had known infested peas to have been sown without any subsequent appearance of the bu<^. Mr. Betiiune, resuming, and in reply to Mr. Sauxdeus, said : THE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY—Pieria vapoi. The insect most injurious to the cabbage at the present time is a recent importation from Europe, the Pieris raj^fv, or caljbage Fig. ;iy. Fig. 41. Fig. SO shows the ; F!i,.p %\w female ; a,ui Fi,j. U (a) tho larva, . (1.) Uif chryHulis. [J/r. lifthunc]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced fo
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