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Onondaga county. Mrs A. M. A. Jackson, of Warner, finds little 
evidence of the fly and no serious injury. We have been unable 
to learn of material loss in this county. 
Orleans county. An examination of local wheat fields showed 
that from 25 to 75 per cent of many had been destroyed, 5 or 6 
puparia being found at the base of some stalks. There were in 
these fields some rust, some smut and undoubtedly winter killing 
in low places. The latter was held by some to be responsible for 
most of the injury, though we are of the opinion that the work 
of the Hessian fly was greatly underestimated. Several poor wheat 
fields were also observed in Orleans county east of Albion, some of 
the damage, as in other places, being undoubtedly due to winter 
injury. 
Mr Clark Allis, of Medina, reports some fields of wheat as being 
hardly worth harvesting on account of winter injury rather than 
damage by Hessian fly. We saw no evidence the latter part of 
June in that section of serious damage to wheat by insects. 
Ontario county. Mr W. T. Case, of West Bloomfield, reports 
wheat “used up” in the western part of the county and much dam- 
age to barley. He can recall but one other occasion when it was 
so bad as this year though a few fields of Dawson’s golden chaff 
escaped and produced a good crop. 
Seneca county. Mr M. C. Brokaw reports in June the appear- 
ance of Hessian fly in gold coin wheat and adds that he is unable 
to estimate the damage due to insects and that wheat at best will 
make only a fair crop. Mr B. R. Hewlett, of Interlaken, estimates 
the yield at 20 bushels an acre, the normal being 30, and the per- 
centage of infested fields ranging from 10 to 27. 
Wayne county. Mr E. W. Catchpole, of North Rose, states 
that there was not enough wheat grown in that section to give a 
satisfactory estimate, though the injury was variously placed at 
10 to 15 per cent more than usual. 
Wyoming county. Mr P. A. Kemp, of Wyoming, states that 
the Hessian fly has caused considerable damage in the town of 
Middleburg, the most of it apparently being confined to the portion 
bordering on Bethany in Genesee county. He adds that Messrs 
A. C. and N. M. Ewell estimate the loss in Middleburg at several 
thousand dollars. These gentlemen, in a later communication, place 
the yield at 10 to 20 bushels an acre and the loss at 5, the normal 
being 20 to 25. They estimate that 75 per cent of the fields were - 
infested and the loss at 33% per cent. Some wheat fields appear 
