﻿PAST 
  HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  ARMY 
  WORM. 
  95 
  

  

  is 
  a 
  displayed 
  colnmn, 
  and 
  their 
  progress 
  is 
  as 
  distinctly 
  marked 
  as 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  a 
  fire 
  

   which 
  has 
  overrun 
  the 
  herbage 
  in 
  a 
  dry 
  pasture. 
  Not 
  a 
  blade 
  of 
  grass 
  is 
  left 
  standing 
  

   in 
  their 
  rear. 
  From 
  the 
  ai)pearance 
  of 
  the 
  worm, 
  it 
  is 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  same 
  which 
  

   usually 
  infests 
  gardens, 
  and 
  is 
  commonly 
  called 
  the 
  cut-worm. 
  We 
  are 
  informed 
  that 
  

   about 
  forty 
  years 
  ago 
  the 
  same 
  kind 
  of 
  worm 
  made 
  great 
  destruction 
  in 
  ploughed 
  laud,, 
  

   among 
  spring 
  grain, 
  but 
  jjarticularly 
  in 
  fields 
  of 
  flax. 
  

  

  ^lie 
  Albany 
  Argus 
  adds 
  to 
  the 
  above 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  This 
  black 
  worm 
  is 
  also 
  destroying 
  the 
  vegetation 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  towns 
  of 
  Rensse- 
  

   laer 
  and 
  eastern 
  sections 
  of 
  Saratoga. 
  Many 
  meadows 
  and 
  pastures 
  have 
  been 
  ren- 
  

   dered 
  by 
  their 
  depredations 
  as 
  barren 
  as 
  a 
  heath. 
  It 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  same 
  species^ 
  

   of 
  worm 
  that 
  has 
  ci-eated 
  so 
  much 
  alarm 
  in 
  Worcester 
  County, 
  but 
  we 
  suspect 
  it 
  is^ 
  

   different 
  from 
  the 
  cut-worm, 
  whose 
  ravages 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  confined 
  to 
  corn. 
  

  

  In 
  1818 
  or 
  1820 
  the 
  worm 
  appeared 
  in 
  large 
  numbers 
  in 
  Union 
  Oountyy 
  

   Illinois, 
  as 
  Walsh 
  was 
  informed 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  correspondents. 
  

  

  1825. 
  — 
  In 
  this 
  year 
  the 
  worms 
  damaged 
  the 
  timothy 
  crop 
  in 
  parts 
  of 
  

   Ohio, 
  as 
  appears 
  from 
  an 
  article 
  by 
  Jos. 
  Bradshaw 
  in 
  the 
  Farmer's 
  Ee- 
  

   porter 
  (Ohio), 
  1835, 
  copied 
  in 
  the 
  American 
  Farmer's 
  Eegister 
  of 
  the- 
  

   same 
  year. 
  They 
  also 
  appeared 
  this 
  year 
  in 
  Perry 
  County, 
  Illinois, 
  ac- 
  

   cording 
  to 
  Walsh. 
  

  

  1826. 
  — 
  Damaged 
  the 
  crops 
  in 
  Perry 
  County, 
  Illinois. 
  (Walsh.) 
  

  

  1830. 
  — 
  Did 
  much 
  injury 
  in 
  Illinois, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  Kew 
  England 
  

   Farmer 
  of 
  July 
  2, 
  1830. 
  

  

  1834. 
  — 
  Perry 
  County, 
  Illinois. 
  (Walsh.) 
  

  

  1835. 
  — 
  According 
  to 
  Yolume 
  V 
  of 
  the 
  Cultivator 
  (Boston), 
  the 
  Army 
  

   Worm 
  this 
  year 
  appeared 
  in 
  Missouri— 
  nineteen 
  years 
  earlier 
  than 
  the 
  first 
  

   appearance 
  in 
  this 
  State, 
  given 
  in 
  our 
  Eighth 
  Missouri 
  Entomological 
  

   Keport. 
  In 
  this 
  instance 
  is 
  mentioned 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  the 
  good 
  which 
  

   the 
  worms 
  occasionally 
  do 
  by 
  stripping 
  off 
  the 
  leaves 
  affected 
  by 
  rust. 
  

   It 
  also 
  damaged 
  the 
  timothy 
  crop 
  in 
  Ohio 
  this 
  year, 
  as 
  we 
  learn 
  from 
  the- 
  

   article 
  of 
  Jos. 
  Bradshaw 
  mentioned 
  above. 
  It 
  also 
  appeared, 
  according: 
  

   to 
  Thomas, 
  in 
  Vermillion 
  County, 
  Illinois. 
  

  

  1837. 
  — 
  Vermillion 
  County, 
  Indiana. 
  (Old 
  agricultural 
  newspaper.) 
  

  

  1838.— 
  Union 
  County, 
  Illinois. 
  (Walsh.) 
  

  

  1839.— 
  Perry 
  County, 
  Illinois. 
  (Walsh.) 
  

  

  1811.— 
  Perry 
  County, 
  Illinois. 
  (Walsh.) 
  

  

  1812. 
  — 
  This 
  was 
  a 
  year 
  of 
  more 
  extended 
  appearances. 
  According 
  to- 
  

   Walsh 
  it 
  damaged 
  the 
  crops 
  of 
  Union, 
  Perry, 
  and 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  northern 
  

   counties 
  of 
  Illinois. 
  Fitch 
  states 
  that 
  it 
  appeared 
  this 
  year 
  at 
  numerous^ 
  

   points 
  in 
  Northern 
  Illinois, 
  and 
  from 
  an 
  oldnumber 
  of 
  the 
  Country 
  Gen- 
  

   tleman 
  we 
  learn 
  that 
  it 
  did 
  some 
  damage 
  in 
  Western 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  1845. 
  — 
  Northern 
  Illinois 
  (Walsh); 
  numerous 
  points 
  in 
  Northern 
  Illi- 
  

   nois 
  (Fitch). 
  

  

  1849. 
  — 
  This 
  year 
  it 
  again 
  appeared 
  in 
  Illinois, 
  according 
  to 
  Walsh,, 
  

   and 
  also 
  in 
  Southwest 
  Michigan, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  Michigan 
  Horticult- 
  

   urist. 
  

  

  1850. 
  -Illinois. 
  (Walsh.) 
  

  

  1854. 
  — 
  According 
  to 
  the 
  statement 
  of 
  Mr. 
  M. 
  P. 
  Lentz, 
  of 
  Eocheportj, 
  

  

  