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Jefferson county. Mr F. E. Robertson, manager of tlie county- 

 fa rm bureau, reports three small outbreaks with a total loss of not 

 over $150 and a freedom from injury in the clay soil districts. 



Livingston county. Prof. G. A. Bailey of the Geneseo Normal 

 School, reports a general distribution of the pest near Mount Morris, 

 the damage, however, appearing to be confined to a relatively small 

 area. He estimates the severely injured area at nearly 900 acres. 



Monroe county. Mr Lewis A. Toan, manager of the county farm 

 biireau, reports injury from only five towns, there being a few fields 

 with perhaps one or two acres of sod that were considerably damaged. 

 He values the crop on this land at about $5 an acre, consequently 

 the total loss was not heavy. 



Niagara county. Mr L. F. Strickland, horticultural inspector of 

 the State Department of Agriculture, reports an infestation, es- 

 pecially in the southeastern comer where 60 acres of oats, 1 1 acres of 

 com, 5 acres of barley and about 10 acres of pasture were destroyed. 

 In addition, some 20 acres of hay were injured before cutting. He 

 estimates the severely injured area in the southern part of Niagara 

 county at 300 acres. 



A similar report was received from Mr E. H. Anderson, manager 

 of the coimty farm bureau. 



Ontario county. Mr D. D. Luther reported a somewhat severe 

 though very restricted outbreak at Naples, and so far as we have been 

 able to learn, there were no extended injuries in that county. 



Oswego county. Mr E. Victor Underwood, manager of the county 

 farm bureau, reports a limitation of the injury to two sections, 

 namely, in the region of Mexico and in the northern part of the county 

 in the vicinity of Sandy Creek. In the latter region the oats were 

 cut for hay and the resultant loss was therefore not serious. 



Queens county. Dr David T. Marshall of Hollis states that the 

 pests occurred in isolated fields and lawns and, in his judgment, the 

 damage was not great. 



Suffolk county. Mr Roy Latham of Orient states that practically 

 all timothy fields were infested, and as a result the grass was cut two 

 to three weeks before maturity. The army worms then migrated 

 and caused much damage to com. There were very few parasitic 

 flies observed on the first brood of caterpillars and, as a consequence, 

 the second brood, appearing in July and August, were very destruc- 

 tive. These latter were abundantly parasitized and the third gen- 

 eration in late September and October appeared in Hungarian grass 

 and caused very little damage. 



Tioga and Tompkins counties. Mr V. B. Blatchley, now manager 

 of the Tompkins Coimty Farm Bureau, reported the pests as very 



