HOP'HINSVILLE. A city and the county seat of Christian County. Ky., 75 miles northwest of Nashville, Tenn.; on the Louisville and Nash ville and the Illinois Central railroads I Map: Kentucky, I) 4). It is the sent of the South Ken tucky College (Christian), established in 1849, Bethel Female College (Baptist ).founded in 1831, and of the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. The city is principally engaged in tobacco maim faeture and trade, but has a considerable business also in flour, wheat. corn, hay, and live stock. Iiopkinsville was settled in 1797 and incorporated in 1798. As provided by a charter of 1893, re vised in 1S96. the government is administered by a mayor. elected every four years, and a munici on the hop plant, and called in England 'hop-fly.' In certain years this insect causes an almost total loss of the hop crop in parts of England and New York, and a number of years ago forced the abandonment i f this industry in Wisconsin. About 1890 it made its first appearance in the States of Oregon and IVashington, and has since done great damage. The winter eggs are laid on in the neighborhood of the hop-yards. These eggs hatch in the spring at the time when the buds are about to burst, and three generations of wingless, parthenogenetic females are born upon the plum-trees. Then a fourth generation, eon
ship, Gloucester County, New Jersey, December 3, 1771. At sixteen years of age he was apprenticed to an uncle in Philadelphia to learn the trade of a tailor. In early manhood he became an active and leading member of the abolition society founded sisting of winged agamic females, makes its pearance. These females fly to the hop fields and establish themselves there, giving birth to living young which, agamic and wingless, give birth to individuals like themselves. The tenth or elev enth generation is winged. flies back to the plum, and gives birth to true sexual females which are wingless, but which mate with winged males which fly in from the fields. The winter egg is then laid once more upon the plum twigs. (See ALTERNATION or GENERATIONS, and APHID.) The best remedy for this injurious creature is to cut down all but one or two of the plum-trees near the hop-yard, and then to destroy in Nay all of the lice on the one or two remaining trees by spraying with a dilute kerosene-soap emulsion or a fish-oil soap wash.