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November 4 Dr. E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y., reported, on the 
authority of Mr. M. F. Adams, that there bad been injury to lawns 
at Buffalo, N. Y. 
In January, 1900, Mr. Webster informed the writer that the fall 
army worm had been injurious in Ohio the previous fall, and named 
Haverhill, Scioto County, Buck Run, Adams County, and Urbana, 
Champaign County, as localities in that State where the insect had 
been reported in destructive numbers. 
February 3, 1900, Prof. J. B. Smith wrote that this insect had been 
injurious in New Jersey the previous season and for the first time in 
his experience. It attacked clover, grass, and wheat. 
The fall army worm became the subject of some newspaper com- 
ment, and quite a number of newspaper paragraphs, in addition to 
those which have been cited, appeared in reference to the pest, par- 
ticularly in Chicago dailies. In one of these the insect was identified 
as the boll worm, //eliothis armiger, and the *‘ kissing bug” was stated 
to be an effective destroyer of the ‘‘ worms.” Insome instances injury 
was confused with that of certain caterpillars which infested fruit and 
shade trees. In some other journals published farther west, however, 
the ravages of this insect were noticed, and the identification vouched 
for by entomologists. 
According to Press Bulletin, circular series No. 2, University of 
Nebraska, by Prof. W. D. Hunter, which reached the writer after the 
reports previously recorded, injury was very severe in that State, par- 
ticularly to alfalfa, whence the name *‘ alfalfa worm,” which became 
very generally applied to the caterpillars. The species was identified 
from Johnson, Gage, Nemaha, Saline, Fillmore, Douglas, Washing- 
ton, and Dodge counties, and was also reported from Boyd and Daw- 
son counties. In some localities the alfalfa fields suffered the loss of 
the third cutting. Many beet fields were attacked, also those of corn, 
Kafir corn, wheat, oats, cabbage, and grasses. Cowpeas, millet, and 
other general and truck crops, according to Prof. E. D. Sanderson, 
were infested in that State. 
The editor of the Indiana Farmer stated in his issue of September 2, 
1899, that the fall army worm was reported in the corn fields and gar- 
dens within 4 miles of Indianapolis in large numbers. In a subse- 
quent issue, September 9, it‘was reported on the authority of A. C. 
Harvey that this insect had made its appearance at New Lafayette, 
Ind. The larvee started from a piece of oats ground which had been 
plowed up for wheat; the army had crossed into a tender millet 
patch and devoured it, and was at the time of writing in buckwheat. 
In the Ohio Farmer of November 2, 1899, complaint was made by a 
correspondent of injury to wheat by this species at Haverhill, Ohio. 
“The worms” were doing much damage, taking ‘‘the fields clean as 
they go.” An answer to this letter was given by Mr. Webster, with 
short notes on the insect’s habits and suggestions as to remedies. 
