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founded not on any direct observations on the eggs, but on the locali- 

 ties from which the worms were noticed to come last spring ; and as 

 the experience of some of my correspondents on these points is inter- 

 esting, I give a few extracts herewith : 



First noticed on low and level land— [Dr. A. H. Dye, Lamar, Barton county. 



On level land ; tlie opinion prevails here that they were most numerous on land 

 that had been previously cropped to oats or Hungarian grass — Wu. H. Avery, same 

 place. 



First noticed in old meadows — [S, S. Smith, Bertrand, Mississippi county. 



My opinion is that they originate in wet meadows — [J. M. Anthony, Frederick- 

 town, Madison county. 



In every Instance, so far as we have been able to observe in this neighborhood, 

 they came from the stubble near and among the roots of the grass in meadows ; and 

 they were noticed about tlie roots of the grass when as small in diameter as the finest 

 needle — PRobt. E. Caskie, Rocheport, Boone county. 



All whom I have spoken to describe them " to seem to just come out of the ground 

 in old meadows, regardless of high or low situation." In some instances they came 

 from old iitraw stacks, 2 years old. — [\Vm. Rieiil, Potosi, Washington county. 



There were some Army Worms in a few localities in low meadow land in this and 

 the east edge of Callaway county. — [E, 11. Brown, Montgomery City, Montgomery 

 "County. 



The worms hatched in low meadows first, and afterwards on higher lands, such 

 as meadows and wheat fields, and in some Instances they hatched in fields planted in 

 ■corn. — [Henry Bruihl, Appleton, Cape Girardeau Co. 



On low land. — [S. S. Bailey, Dundee, FrankUn Co. 



Noticed on both high and low, but were far more numerous on low meadow 

 lands. No prairie here. They seemed to come from wheat straw cut in June and 

 trashed in October; timothy cut in June and July, old dead weeds, and trash of all 

 sorts that had lain over winter seemed their native home. Pastures or meadows pas- 

 tured bare previous Fall, were not infested. — [VVm. Carr, Belleview, Iron Co. 



They were first observed on high land and appeared in our flower garden, where 

 we had used considerable straw and trash as a mulch. — [W. S. Goodman, Mt. Vernon, 

 Lawrence Co. 



On the farm of Mr. Henry Elliott, joining my wheat, are extensive Timothy mea- 

 <lows and old pastures of the same of twenty years standing, all of which were ruined 

 so far as the then growing crop was concerned. Certainly they must have been bred 

 in those meadows and pastures ; if not, I know not from whence they came. High and 

 low lands were alike infested. A few seemed to start from woodland pastures where 

 stock fodder had been fed twelve months before, making their way into growing corn 

 near by. This I observed in two places half a mile apart. — [Tiios. Mitchell, Boon- 

 ville. Cooper Co. 



I think their appearance as a general thing was first in low lands, but in a very 

 short time they spread over the hill lands as though they all came up out of the ground 

 at once. They were most destructive near old straw piles. — [J. B. Douglass, Columbia, 

 Boone Co. 



In every old hay or straw stack place there were more or less of them, and to such 

 an extent did they come from such places, that such places were fired to destroy them. 

 On our place there were but few, and those from hay stacks; the hay was cut the latter 

 part of the June preceding. — [L. A. Brown, Boonsboro, Howard Co. 



There were none noticed on the upland in this county, but they were very numer- 

 ous on creek bottoms in the southern part of the county. — [D. P. Dyer, Warrenton, 

 Warren Co. 



A piece of my farm was adjoining a straw rick, some of which was from the crop 

 of '73, some from '72, and I am thoroughly convinced that the Army Worm has its origin 



