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Cut-worms, (Agrotis sp.)—A species of this genus injured the corn in 
Erie County, New York; another injured tobacco in Louisa County, 
Virginia; another was heard from in Lapeer County, Michigan. 
Cabbage-worms (Pieris sp.) were destructive in Aroostook County, 
Maine, and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. A worm like the 
common cabbage-worm covered the heads of the sorghum, when in full 
bloom, in Montgomery County, Tennessee. 
Chinch-bugs (Micropus |Rhyparochromus| leucopterus) did more or less 
damage in Pittsylvania, Halifax, and Mecklenburgh Counties, Virginia ; 
in Burnet County, Texas; in Russell County, Kentucky; in Adams 
County, Ohio; in Jennings County, Indiana; in Clinton, Pope, White, 
and Boone Counties, Illinois; in Greene and Dane Counties, Wiscon- 
sin; in Miller, Benton, Crawford, Lawrence, and Laclede Counties, 
Missouri; in Neosho, Bourbon, Montgomery, and Labette Counties, 
Kansas, and in Gage County, Nebraska. In Labette County, Kansas, 
they devoured the rag-weed. p 
Grub-worms (Lachnosterna sp.) were active in Atascosa County, Texas, 
and in Platte County, Missouri. In Monroe County, West Virginia, 
they honeycombed the meadows and pastures; in Mercer they badly 
injured the corn. It was probably the same insect that destroyed the 
growing wheat in Putnam. 
Hessian-fly, (Cecidomyia destructor.) ‘This insect has been heard from 
in Russell County, Kentucky, and in Jennings County, Indiana, 
Wheat-midge, (Diplosis tritici.) This insect troubled small grain farm- 
ers in Mercer and Putnam Counties, West Virginia. 
Boll-worms (Heliothis armigera) injured cotton-crops in Edgefield, 
North Carolina; in Upson, Marion, Twiggs, Stewart, Coweta, and Cal- 
houn Counties, Georgia; in Jefferson County, Florida; in Saint Clair, 
Macon, and Perry Counties, Alabama; in Lowndes, Noxubee, and Ran- 
kin Counties, Mississippi; in Rusk County, Texas; in Columbia County, 
Arkansas. 
Cotton-caterpillar, or army-worm, (Anomis xylinw.)—The visitation of 
this pest has been one of great severity in the more southern cotton 
States. It appeared without doing much damage in five counties of 
South Carolina, Richland, Williamsburg, Laurens, Marlborough, and 
Orangeburgh. It was reported as not very injurious in Brooks, Lee, 
Muscogee, Macon, Worth, Glynn, Baldwin, and Twiggs Counties, Geor- 
gia; but its ravages were quite serious in Decatur, Schley, Marion, 
Karly, Coweta, Calhoun, Jefferson, and Stewart. In Karly County itis 
stated that those worms which had not webbed up were eating the 
young bolls. In Macon the caterpillar required a longer period for pro- 
creation and showed far less of destructive energy than formerly. A 
few persons in this county denounced the effects of poisons as worse than 
the injuries of the worms, but no specific facts were presented. 
In Florida injuries were comparatively light in Jackson, Gadsden, 
Columbia, Alachua, Hamilton, and Suwannee Counties, but more severe 
in Jefferson, Liberty, Wakulla, Madison, and Leon. Experience varies 
in regard to Paris green and other poisons. In Liberty the worms 
‘appear to ignore and despise all efforts for their extirpation. In Madi- 
son few had faith enough to try any remedies. In Jefferson some were 
successful for the time, but complained that the worms returned after ten 
or twelve days. In Leon judicious efforts of this kind were quite suc- 
cessful. 
In several counties of Alabama the caterpillar was quite active even 
