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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
New Jersey farmers have suffered severely from two notorious pests.
The older and more destructive is the Japanese beetle, first discovered in
1916 at Cinnaminson. This bright metallic-green native of Japan, three-eighths of an inch in length and about the same in width, has blazed a
destructive trail over most of the State and adjoining sections of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Control methods have been devised, but the beetles
are still responsible for a vast amount of damage to the business of nurserymen and to deciduous foliage -- from peach trees to roses -- in the New
Jersey area. The second pest is the Mexican bean beetle, a native of Central
America, which was reported by bean growers in 1927 as doing some
damage in Cape May County. Spraying and dusting have proved effective
in controlling the spread of this prolific insect, which kills bean plants by
feeding on the leaves until only a lacy shell remains. About one-quarter
of an inch in length, the Mexican bean beetle has yellow or copper-colored wings with sixteen small black spots.
In recent years there has been decided progress in methods of marketing farm produce. Through the leadership of the State department of
agriculture, standard grades have been established and ways and means
provided for marketing much produce cooperatively. Motor trucks have
largely displaced the railroads as carriers of produce, and New Jersey farm
products are now marketed at roadside stands in large quantities.
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