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  EEPORT 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  COMMISSION. 
  

  

  pla<iing 
  the 
  damage 
  at 
  from 
  25 
  to 
  50 
  per 
  cent. 
  The 
  total 
  amount 
  of 
  oats 
  

   in 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  will 
  not 
  fall 
  behind 
  the 
  crop 
  of 
  last 
  year, 
  owing 
  

   to 
  a 
  much 
  greater 
  acreage. 
  Many 
  farmers 
  have 
  put 
  in 
  oats 
  on 
  account 
  

   of 
  the 
  failure 
  of 
  winter 
  wheat. 
  In 
  the 
  southern 
  part 
  of 
  Newton 
  County, 
  

   Indiana, 
  the 
  damage 
  done 
  was 
  very 
  great. 
  Mr. 
  Kent, 
  of 
  Kentland, 
  who 
  

   owns 
  several 
  farms, 
  says 
  that 
  while 
  his 
  individual 
  crops 
  should 
  liave 
  

   been 
  50,000 
  bushels, 
  he 
  would 
  be 
  happj^to 
  realize 
  10,000. 
  He 
  says 
  that 
  

   the 
  loss 
  in 
  Kentland 
  townsijip 
  will 
  easily 
  be 
  75 
  per 
  cent, 
  of 
  the 
  crop; 
  

   but 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  realizes 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  local, 
  and 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  cro^) 
  of 
  

   the 
  State 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  will 
  be 
  immense. 
  

  

  The 
  previous 
  season. 
  — 
  The 
  persons 
  interviewed 
  seemed 
  to 
  be 
  unan- 
  

   imous 
  in 
  the 
  opinion 
  that 
  the 
  last 
  season 
  was 
  very 
  wet 
  during 
  the 
  early 
  

   part, 
  and 
  that 
  this 
  Avas 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  very 
  dry 
  late 
  summer 
  and 
  fall. 
  

   Last 
  winter 
  was, 
  as 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  country, 
  a 
  very 
  severe 
  one, 
  while 
  the 
  win- 
  

   ter 
  before 
  was 
  remarkably 
  open. 
  The 
  present 
  season 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  very 
  

   favorable 
  one, 
  the 
  spring, 
  however, 
  being 
  rather 
  dry. 
  

  

  The 
  previous 
  crop. 
  — 
  In 
  fields 
  which 
  were 
  worst 
  injured 
  I 
  always 
  

   took 
  pains 
  to 
  inquire 
  concerning 
  the 
  previous 
  crop, 
  and 
  found 
  consid- 
  

   erable 
  diversit3^ 
  In 
  two 
  cases 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  corn, 
  in 
  two 
  oats, 
  in 
  one 
  flax, 
  

   in 
  one 
  barley, 
  and 
  in 
  one 
  prairie 
  land. 
  In 
  several 
  cases 
  also 
  it 
  was 
  win- 
  

   ter 
  wheat 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  plowed 
  ujj 
  in 
  April. 
  The 
  damage 
  in 
  all 
  these 
  

   fields 
  this 
  year 
  was 
  exjually 
  great. 
  

  

  Method 
  of 
  work.— 
  The 
  method 
  of 
  work 
  in 
  oats 
  is 
  the 
  same, 
  as 
  in 
  

   timothy 
  and 
  wheat, 
  as 
  described. 
  The 
  fruit-stalk 
  is 
  stripped 
  of 
  its 
  leaves, 
  

   and 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  cut 
  off 
  and 
  falls 
  to 
  the 
  ground, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  usually 
  eaten 
  

   to 
  a 
  greater 
  or 
  less 
  extent. 
  Some 
  farmers 
  have 
  taken 
  advantage 
  of 
  this 
  

   fact, 
  and 
  have 
  turned 
  in 
  their 
  swine 
  to 
  feed 
  upon 
  the 
  fallen 
  grain, 
  and 
  

   at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  they 
  undoubtedly 
  destroy 
  many 
  worms 
  and 
  i^upae. 
  

  

  No 
  marching 
  whatever 
  has 
  been 
  noticed. 
  The 
  worms 
  appeared 
  sim- 
  

   ultaneously 
  all 
  through 
  the 
  helds, 
  and 
  having 
  plenty 
  of 
  food 
  there 
  was 
  

   no 
  occasion 
  for 
  going- 
  farther. 
  This 
  fact 
  has 
  given 
  rise 
  to 
  an 
  opinion 
  

   among 
  many 
  farmers 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  Army 
  Worm 
  but 
  a 
  cut-worm 
  

   that 
  is 
  always 
  present 
  in 
  the 
  fields. 
  This 
  fact 
  also 
  puts 
  an 
  effectnal 
  

   estoppel 
  upon 
  the 
  u?e 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  remedies, 
  and 
  there 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  no 
  

   way 
  to 
  destroy 
  the 
  worms 
  in 
  the 
  fields 
  without 
  a 
  sacrifice 
  of 
  the 
  crop. 
  

  

  Facts 
  bearing 
  on 
  number 
  of 
  broods.— 
  That 
  the 
  brood 
  damag- 
  

   ing 
  oats 
  this 
  year 
  was 
  at 
  least 
  the 
  second, 
  and, 
  in 
  case 
  of 
  larval 
  hiber- 
  

   nation, 
  the 
  third, 
  seems 
  most 
  probable. 
  The 
  injurious 
  brood 
  in 
  Illinois 
  

   has 
  been 
  usually 
  in 
  June, 
  the 
  worms 
  pupating 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  

   month, 
  and 
  the 
  moths 
  appearing 
  Irom 
  the 
  20th 
  to 
  the 
  30th 
  of 
  the 
  month. 
  

   In 
  the 
  places 
  visited 
  this 
  year 
  the 
  worms 
  were 
  first 
  noticed 
  from 
  the 
  

   12th 
  to 
  the 
  15th 
  of 
  July, 
  and 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  were 
  of 
  the 
  size 
  

   of 
  a 
  ^' 
  small 
  straw." 
  

  

  In 
  one 
  instanc<^ 
  several 
  empty 
  egg-shells 
  of 
  Leucania 
  were 
  found 
  in 
  

   the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  a 
  last 
  winter's 
  fodder 
  stack. 
  They 
  were 
  in 
  the 
  fold 
  of 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  basal 
  leaves 
  of 
  the 
  stalk. 
  These, 
  from 
  their 
  position, 
  may 
  have 
  

  

  