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Broome county. Mr E. R. Minns, manager of the county farm 

 bureau, states that the damage was not very serious, being confined 

 mostly to city lawns or gardens and a few farms. A few fields of 

 oats were cut for hay in order to save them from injury. 



Cattaraugus county. Mr H. E. Crofoot, manager of the county 

 farm bureau, records some injury to corn and serious damage to oats, 

 the loss being about one-third on 500 to 600 acres, the average yield 

 from uninfested fields being 27 bushels an acre. 



Cayuga county. Mr C. R. Teall, manager of the county farm 

 bureau, reports an infestation comprising about 150 acres, many of 

 which were practically ruined, while in others the injury was small, 

 it averaging for the infested area approximately 50 per cent. 



Chautauqua county. Mr Hawley B. Rogers, manager of the county 

 farm bureau, states that the pest was generally prevalent and esti- 

 mates the damage to the oat crop at approximately 10 per cent, 

 though in some fields it ran as high as 25 per cent. 



Chemung county. Mr M. E. Cleubbuch, manager of the county 

 farm bureau, states that the army worm did not do much damage. 



Cortland county. Mr E. H. Forristall, manager of the county farm 

 bureau, reports two local outbreaks, one resulting in the destruction 

 .of a large piece of oats and the other not causing any amount of 

 damage. 



Dutchess county. Mr F. H. Lacy, manager of the county farm 

 bureau, reports a number of complaints of injury to oat fields, the 

 loss ranging under 25 per cent and being confined to a relatively 

 small proportion of the planted area. The aggregate loss in the 

 count 3^ would run into thousands of dollars. 



Erie county. Mr F. L. Strickland, horticultural inspector of the 

 State Department of Agriculture, reports a general infestation with 

 occasional severe injury in the northern half of the county, some 

 twenty acres of pasture near Lancaster being destroyed in addition 

 to injury to corn, in a few cases the entire crop being ruined. 



Mr W. L. Markham, agent of the farm bureau, placed the loss at 

 thousands of dollars and states that the injury occurred here and 

 there over the county and in some cases acres of oats were practically 

 destroyed. 



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

 the State Department of Agriculture, reported a general infestation 

 in the northern half of Genesee county and records five acres of corn 

 and at least forty acres of pasture as being destroyed by the pests. 



