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although we had a very dry season, yet we would have harvested at least ninety per 

 cent of a corn crop, and there would have been an average yield of wheat and oats. — 

 M. L. Br. it is impossible, at this time to closely approximate the damage in dollars and 

 cents sustained by them this year, but may safely place it at one-half of the entire 

 wheat, oats and corn crop of the county, for notwithstanding the drouth which pre- 

 vailed, we certainly would have harvested a full crop of wheat and oats, and one-half 

 of corn. — J. A. r. 



Wni'7'en County. 

 4 — Can't make any estimate in figures; would say about 50 per cent, on all up- 

 lands; on creek and river bottom lands the damage has been small. — d. p. d, 



Washington County. 

 3 — No efibrts made to overcome them; very few of your reports in this county. — w. k. 

 4— As to the damage done by them it is hard to determine ; we raised about one- 

 fourth of a crop of corn and oats, and it is the opinion of our best farmers that the 

 bugs hurt it much more than the drouth. Wheat escaped pretty much, as it was very 

 forward. * * * — w. r. 



Wright County. 



3— There have not been' any systematic effort made as yet. We know nothing 

 about your Report. -^ * * — e. b. g. 



4 — Corn is damaged, I think, probably, one-third ; oats the same ; wheat so little I 

 could not estimate it. I have no way of getting at the amount in dollars and cents, but 

 it is immense. My opinion is that Fall plowing, thorough cultivation of the land, and 

 as early planting and seeding as possible, will in a great measure overcome their rav- 

 ages ; such has been my experience.— e. b. g. 



THE FLAT-HEADED APPLE-TREE BO^'^K—Chrysohothris femo- 



rata'^ (Fabr.) 



(Ord. CoLEOPTERA ; Fam. Buprestidje.) 

 This insect, owing to tlie enfeebled condition of many fruit and 

 shade trees — a condition superinduced in part by excessive drouth, 

 in part by defoliation, in the country ravaged by locusts — has been 

 IFig. 12.] exceedingly injurious all over the western por- 



tion of the country. Specimens and complaints 

 have reached me not only from many parts of 

 Missouri, but from Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas 

 and Nebraska; while the injurious work of this 

 borer was so apparent wherever I traveled that 

 I deem it advisable to publish a more extended 

 account than was given in the Report for 1868. 

 Considering the fatality of its work and the 

 number of valuable fruit and shade trees which 

 fl.Va^^v^T'.ioi^aivtewT^^ it attacks, few insects are more to be dreaded 



c, swollen thovacic joints of ,1 , 1 • ttii j. i i j a ^ l n 



larvafrom beneaui 5 d, beetle, than this same Jb lat-headcd Apple-tree i5orer. 



•Crotch in his Lisf makes alabamce Gory, i-impressa Gory, Lesueuri Gory, fastidiosa Gory, ioror 

 Lcc, inisella'Lec., obscuraL.ec. and semisculpta Lee., varieties or synonymes of /cmora/a. My own 

 experience so far as it goes in breeding this insect from difl'erent trees bears out Mr. Crotch's opinion. 



