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be exempt thus far from attack. (J. U. Metz, East Amherst, 
Erie ¢o.) 
J. F. Rose of South Byron reports as follows: A large acre- 
age of what early promised to be good wheat will not be worth 
cutting as a result of Hessian fly attack. A few farmers are 
plowing up their wheat but as the wet weather has been favor- 
able for a good catch of clover, many will not plow it up as 
they are anxious to save the seeding. Very little or no white 
wheat will be harvested in this vicinity. Some farmers I saw 
yesterday had not been in their wheat fields for a few days and 
the grain had gone to the bad very rapidly since they saw it. I 
visited and examined wheat fields in three towns today and I 
have heard some bad reports from other neighboring towns. ~- 
Several fields of red wheat have been examined and they are not 
badly infested as yet. 9074, however, of the wheat in this section 
is white, a variety known as no. 6. It has been exclusively 
grown for some years, as the quality is good and it is a fine 
yielder. The red wheat is known as no. 8. As regards prox- 
imity of other fields, there is so much grown that all fields are 
comparatively close. Probably there is no field that is a half 
mile from another and most of them are much nearer or within 
a quarter mile of one another. The prospect early was very 
good for yields of 20 to 85 bushels an acre in all fields, as there 
was little winter injury. A field near here belonging to G. G. 
Chick was not sown till the first week in October and it looked 
well much later in May than early sown fields, but today Mr 
Chick tells me that there will be no wheat. This wheat is no. 6. 
One farmer reports that the fly can now be found in barley. 
Regarding the farmers from whom I have reports, it is quite 
certain that some of them have estimated their yield of wheat 
too high. The few stalks standing are about as thick as hoop 
poles and when pulled up it is found that they are infested with | 
the fly to some extent. The damage will hardly exceed 5¢ in 
the fields of red wheat. The following are reports from fields 
of wheat in this vicinity: 
