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tive over by far its greater portion, ranging from its extreme east to the 

 west and from the north to the soutli. The insect has been authentically- 

 reported from fifty-five of the sixty counties, but has probably been pres- 

 ent, to a greater or less extent, in all. The following are known to 

 have been infested to a greater or less extent : 



Albany. 



Allegany. 



Broome. 



Cattaraugus. 



Cayuga. 



Chautauqua. 



Chemung. 



Chenango. 



Clinton. 



Columbia 



Cortland. 



Delaware. 



Dutchess. 



Erie. 



Essex. 



Franklin. 



Fulton. 



Genesee. 



Greene. 



Herkimer. 



Jefferson. 



Kings. 



Lewis. 



Livingston. 



Madison. 



Monroe. 



Montgomery. 



Niagara. 



Oneida. 



Onondaga. 



Ontario. 



Orange. 



Orleans. 



Oswego. 



Otsego. 



Putnam. 



Queens. 



Rensselaer. 



Rockland. 



Saratoga. 



Schenectady. 



Schoharie. 



Schuyler. 



Seneca. 



St. Lawrence, 



Steuben. 



Suffolk. 



Sullivan. 



Tioga. 



Tompkins. 



Ulster. 



Washington. 



Wayne. 



Westchester. 



Wyoming. 



It has not been reported, so far as known, in the following counties : 

 Hamilton, New York, Richmond, Warren and Yates. 



From the nature of the attack, and from the reports at hand, it would 

 be useless to estimate the damage caused by this insect to the farming 

 interests of the State of New York the past year. The habit that the 

 caterpillars have of feeding largely under cover of darkness, renders it 

 quite safe to assume that in each of the fifty-five counties from which 

 they liave been reported, considerable injury to the crops has resulted. 

 Besides the injuries reported, there are many individuals who have suf- 

 fered considerable loss in silence. In addition to this, there is also the 

 damage inflicted by the insect unknown even to the owners of the prop- 

 erty involved. The two latter items would swell the total loss caused 

 by this insect in the State the past year to a very formidable sum. The 

 following newspaper items will give some idea of its abundance and de- 

 structiveness in the State of New \ ork in its recent invasion : 



In the vicinity of Easthampton [L. I.] the army-worm has appeared 

 to the number of many thousands and has destroyed crops belonging to 

 farmers, as well as fields and lawns of private residences. 



The Journal, July 9. 



