THE WHEAT MIDGE. ^^ 



summers to the wheat in some degree, and not done much harm, 

 yet if the good providence of God had not hindered it, they 

 might have ruined all the crops of wheat in the nation." 



History of its Progress. 



137. The following records of the appearance of this destruc- 

 tive insect will furnish a tolerable idea of the extent of its ravages 

 on the American continent : — 



1820. 

 Wheat midge first appeared in "Western Vermont.(i) 



1827. 

 Occasioned local injury in Athens County, Ohio(?)(2) 



1828. 

 Committed extensive depredations in Northern Vermont, and 

 the frontiers of Lower Canada. 



1829. 

 Greatly destructive in Vermont and parts of Lower Canada 



and New Hampshire. 



1830. 



Appeared in North-eastern New York. 



1831. 

 Considerable injury in Eastern New York. 



1832. 



Very destructive in Eastern New York ; cultivation of wheat 



abandoned. 



1834. 



Commenced its depredations in the State of Maine. First 

 appeared in numbers in Lower Canada, near Montreal. 



1835. 



" 7th or 8th July, 1835, I discovered the fly on my wheat in 

 myriads. They disappeared on the 11th or 12th July. They 



(1) Mr. Jewett— New England Farmer; 



(2) Statement of Mr. Elner Eowell, page 252. Pat. Off. Rep., 1852r3. 



