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In Quebec Province the following counties were infested: Pontiac, Wright, 

 Eichelieu, Quebec, Portneuf and Champlain. 



In New Brunswick these counties were infested: Kings, Queens, Sunbury, 

 York, St. John, and Albert. 



In Nova Scotia : Yarmouth, Digby, Queens, Annapolis, Kings, Hants, Lunen- 

 burg, Halifax, Colchester, Cumberland, Pictou, Antigonish, Guysboro, Cape 

 Breton and Inverness. 



In the western provinces no injury which we could trace to the Army-worm 

 occurred. In several instances reports of injury were received, but upon investiga- 

 tion the insect was found to be the Sugar Beet Webworm (Lorostege sticticalis) . 



Fig. 10. — Individual corn plant, showing Fig. 11. — Army-worms in trench, near Kin 

 complete defoliation by army-worm, burn, Ont., July 1914 (Original). 



Kinburn, Ont., July, 1914 (Original). 



In Manitoba the moths of the Army-worm were present in numbers in the 

 earlier part of August, which would indicate that caterpillars were numerous in 

 some localities. No injury, however, was reported. 



The crops attacked were oats, barley, corn, hay, spring wheat, alfalfa, clover, 

 peas, mangolds, beets, turnips and millet. The chief damage was done to oats 

 and to pasture lands. In Ontario in the counties of Oxford, Brant and Elgin, 

 where the Army-worms were most abundant, whole fields of oats, com, and 

 barley were devastated. 



It is difficult to estimate the loss caused by the Army-worm during the past 

 summer, but undoubtedly, all things being considered, such as destruction of crops, 



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