8 FARMERS’ BULLETIN 640. 
Mr. W. J. Phillips found similar flaxseeds in Agropyron about Rich- 
mond, Ind., May, 1908. During September of the same year Mr. 
BH. O. G. Kelly found the Hessian fly breeding in abundance in Agro- 
pyron smithii in the vicinity of Wellimgton, Kans. This appearance 
of the Hessian fly in this grass during 1908 and 1909 was very marked 
Fic. 9.—Healthy young wheat plant. (Author’s illustration.) 
indeed, owing to the fact that the grass was growing within the Chi- 
cago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway right of way. The dried 
grass was burned off, so that the fresh growth came up just at the time 
that the Hessian flies were abroad depositing their eggs. The young 
grass plants were not only abundant but convenient and the flies 
