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upon all fall crops till they were killed by the severe freeze of October 
28. In Redwood County, Minnesota, they were particularly damaging 
to potatoes, beans, and buckwheat. In Sioux, Harrison, Monona, and 
Plymouth Counties, lowa, they injured all the crops. In Clay County, 
Missouri, aud in Smith County, Kansas, they were also mischievous. 
In Madison County, Nebraska, ‘the prospects of a fine crop this year 
were greatly depressed by these pests; they were also heard from in 
Antelope and Nemaha Counties; they were rife in the western part of 
the State. In San Luis Obispo County, California, they injured pota- 
toes. They were troublesome in Clay County, Dakota, in Lewis and 
Clarke County, Montana, and in Bonhomme County, Dakota. 
Potato-insects.—Our correspondents would confer a favor by designat- 
ing the particular kind of insects depredating upon potatoes. Many of 
them speak simply of potato-bugs, but it appears sufficiently evident 
that in most, if not in all, cases the Colorado beetle (Doryphora decem- 
lineata) is meant. Injuries are reported in Garland County, Arkansas: 
in Marion, Brooke, and Tyler, West Virginia; in Anderson and 
Livingston, Kentucky; in Washington, Franklin, Medina, Lorain, 
Crawford, Geauga, Hamilton, and Mercer, Ohio; in Calhoun, Oceana, 
and Livingston, Michigan; in Martin, La Porte, and Ohio, Indiana; 
in Tazewell, Mason, and Boone, Illinois; in Calumet, Saint Croix, and 
Washington, Wisconsin; in Kandiyohi and Steele, Minnesota; in Fay- 
ette and Audubon Counties, lowa; in Pettis and Maries, Missouri; and 
in Clay, Dakota. An insect formerly destructive of potatoes 
(Cantharis marginata) attacked spinach and other garden vegetables in 
Elk County, Pennsylvania. Paris green is used with increasing effect- 
iveness in abating these nuisances. 
Insects designated by the unmeaning term corn-worms (probably 
Heliothis armigera) were mischievous in Waldo, Maine, and in 
Bandera and San Saba, Texas. Grub-worms (Lachnosterna sp.) 
injured the corn in Bland, Virginia, and in Washington, Wisconsin. 
The weevil (Sitophilus or yz) infested the corn-crop of Wilkinson 
Mississippi. : 
Chinch-bugs (Micropus (Rhyparochromus) leucopterus) are reported as 
shortening the corn-crops of Gibson, Dearborn, and Ohio, Indiana; 
ana; in Pike and Boone, Illinois; in Jasper, Gasconade, Miller, 
Douglas, Texas, Perry, Phelps, Maries, and Dallas, Missouri ; 
in Labette, Montgomery, Woodson, Wilson, Neosho, and Cherokee, 
Kansas. Our correspondent in Labette, states that the fourth 
brood of these insects were destroyed by frost, and inquires 
whether this will not arrest their reproduction the coming year. The 
eggs of the chinch-bug have been found by the entomologist in the 
ground in midwinter awaiting only the warmth of coming spring to 
hatch them out. 
Cabbage-worms (Pieris. sp.) are reported in Wyoming, New York, 
and in Franklin, Ohio. 
Tobacco-worms (probably Macrosila Carolina) did some damage in Dick- 
son, Tennessee; in Nicholas, Kentucky; in Franklin, Missouri. 
Fruit-insects, undesignated, were observed in Marion and Whitfield 
Georgia. The apple-crop was affected by core-worms (Carpo- 
capsa pomonella) in Harrison, West Virginia. A great variety 
of insects, nanies not given, were destructive to crops in Grundy and 
Montgomery, Tennessee. In the last report notice was taken of 
the absence of birds from the forests in this State. The correspond- 
ence of the Department shows that the pernicious practice of shooting 
birds has gained ground in the South in the last few years. The great 
increase of insect “depredators may be partly traced to this cause. 
