710 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
William Scoins of Stafford township has 4 acres of white 
wheat sown September 7 or 8 and he will not get his seed 
back. 16 acres sown September 20 is no better than his earlier 
sown pieces, though it did not show injury as early in the 
spring. 
Charles Buckland of South Byron has 15 acres of red wheat 
sown September 5 and 7524 to 80¢ of it is apparently all right. 
George Kelly of South Byron has 8 acres of red wheat sown 
September 1 and 804 of it is free from injury. Another field 
of 42 acres of red wheat sown between September 3 and 8 
looks well and bids fair to yield 25 to 30 bushels an acre. 
William Cork of South Byron sowed 8 acres of red wheat 
September 9 and 754 of it is all right. In sowing this field, the- 
drill skipped two strips across the field and when the wheat 
came up the omission was seen and white wheat was sown in its 
place. The Hessian flies have destroyed all of this white wheat. 
John Berlin of Elba township sowed 54 acres of red wheat 
between September 10 and 18 and he estimates that his crop 
will average more than 20 bushels an acre. ‘There is very 
little evidence of insect injury. 
The Hessian fly is also in rye, timothy and barley in this 
vicinity. A perfectly reliable farmer tells me that he has found 
as many as 50 larvae of the fly in one stalk of barley. One of 
our large farmers in South Byron is now cutting his barley and 
curing it for hay, it is so badly infested with Hessian fly. I 
went yesterday to see some wheat in Leroy township that is 
locally known as golden chaff or Clauson’s golden chaff. This 
is a white wheat and has been but little troubled with the 
Hessian fly. It is no more injured than the red wheat, known 
as no. 8. Many farmers will sow this kind and the red wheat 
but if none of the flies’ favorite no. 6 be sown, Mr Rose is 
inclined to think that these more or less resistant varieties will 
suffer another year. 
R. L. Darrison of Lockport, Niagara co. investigated the in- 
juries by Hessian fly in his vicinity and the reports received 
by him do not vary very much from those made by other parties. 
