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Ziweato) has made its appearance iu Pennsylvania in two counties, in one of 

 which the damage is reported as quite light. South of IVIason and 

 Dixon's Line this insect is reported in one county in each of the States 

 of Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee, but in all these 

 the injuries ar^e reported small. Their greatest annoyance is in the 

 States north of the Ohio Eiver. In Ohio several counties report 

 greater or less injuries, not so severe, however, as those reported from 

 Michigan. In Indiana this beetle is more or less destructive, while in 

 several counties of Illinois it is despairingly pronounced a permanent 

 scourge. In one county only (Outagamie, Wisconsin) are they pro- 

 nounced worse than in 1871. In Minnesota and Iowa they are disappear- 

 ing in most of the counties reported, while iu Kansas they are but 

 incidentally mentioned. In Clarke County, Virginia, the Cantharis or 

 common potato beetle is injuring the crops to some extent. The 

 counteracting agency of other insects destroying the Colorado beetle is 

 mentioned with much satisfaction in difterent parts of the country. 

 The ravages of this insect are comparatively trifling the ])resent year. 

 A correspondent in Erie County, Ohio, states that the Colorado po- 

 tato-beetle abounds, this being their worst season ; but by concert of 

 action through the county it is kept iu check; that when the weather 

 is hot, the best way to destroy them is to keep the land well cultivated, 

 and when the light, well-pulverized soil is liot, in the middle of the day, 

 knock them off the vines, and the heat of the ground will kill them. 

 When the weather will not admit of this, a tablespoonful of Paris green 

 in a pailful of water sprinkled on the vines will be effectual. 



Cut-worms. — The cut- worm is reported" in a few counties of New Eng- 

 land and the Middle States as destructive to corn, tobacco, meadows, 

 and fruit. In North Carolina an insect, probably another variety of the 

 cut- worm, is reported as injuring cotton. In Sullivan County, Tennessee, 

 the worms are dug out of the ground, as many as sixty having been 

 found in a single hill of corn. In Upshur County, West Virginia, and 

 in several counties iu Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, the ravages of the 

 cut- worm have been quite severe. This insect is occasionally mentioned 

 in the reports from Illinois and Missouri. 



Locusts. — The locust or Cicada has made its regular seventeen- 

 year visitation in Wise County, Virginia, especially injuring young 

 fruit orchards. Locusts also are annoying the peach-growers of Madison 

 County, North Carolina. In Red River County, Louisiana, they injured 

 young cotton-plants. In Richland County they appeared May 14 and 

 departed June 12. They were present in immense numbers in Laurel 

 County, Kentucky, from May 13 to June 20, but did no serious damage. 

 They were more destructive, however, in Shelby, Jefferson, Jackson, and 

 Pulaski Counties. They are reported also in Highland County, Ohio. 



Aphides. — Aphides or plant lice have been found in the hops in 

 Oneida County, New York. In Bladen, Moore, and Perquimans Counties, 

 North Carolina, and in Marlborough County, South Carolina, this pest 

 has been annoying to the cotton-planter. 



Cateepillars. — A small, dark grey caterpillar has injured the goose- 

 berries and currants iu Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Rice caterpillars 

 have been destructive iu the rice districts in Georgetown County, South 

 Carolina, and in Glynn County, Georgia. In Crittenden County, 

 Arkansas, caterpillars are at work among the apples. In Kane County, 

 Utah, this pest is devouring the corn. 



Grasshoppers. — Grasshoppers are numerous, but not destructive, 

 in Milam County, Texas, and are reported in Rice County, Kansas. 

 In Morgan County, Utah, they destroyed half the spring grain and a 

 fourth of the potatoes. 



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