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Onondaga county. Airs A. M. A. Jackson, of Warner, rinds little 

 .evidence of the fly and no serious injury. We have been unable 

 to learn of material loss in this county. 



Orleans county. An examination of local wheat fields showed 

 that from 25 to 75 per cent of many had been destroyed, 5 or 6 

 puparia being found at the base of some stalks. There were in 

 these fields some rust, some smut and undoubtedly winter killing 

 in low places. The latter was held by some to be responsible for 

 most of the injury, though we are of the opinion that the work 

 of the Hessian fly was greatly underestimated. Several poor wheat 

 fields were also observed in Orleans county east of Albion, some of 

 the damage, as in other places, being undoubtedly due to winter 

 injury. 



Air Clark Allis, of Medina, reports some fields of wheat as being 

 hardly worth harvesting on account of winter injury rather than 

 damage by Hessian fly. We saw no evidence the latter part of 

 June in that section of serious damage to wheat by insects. 



Ontario county. Air W. T. Case, of West Bloomfield, reports 

 wheat " used up " in the western part of the county and much dam- 

 age to barley. He can recall but one other occasion when it was 

 so bad as this year though a few fields of Dawson's golden chaff 

 escaped and produced a good crop. 



Seneca county. Air M. C. Brokaw reports in June the appear- 

 ance of Hessian fly in gold coin wheat and adds that he is unable 

 to estimate the damage due to insects and that wheat at best will 

 make only a fair crop. Air B. R. Hewlett, of Interlaken, estimates 

 the yield at 20 bushels an acre, the normal being 30, and the per- 

 centage of infested fields ranging from 10 to 27.' 



Wayne county. Air E. W. Catchpole, of North Rose, states 

 that there was not enough wheat grown in that section to give a 

 satisfactory estimate, though the injury was variously placed at 

 10 to 15 per cent more than usual. 



Wyoming county. Air P. A. Kemp, of Wyoming, states that 

 the Hessian fly has caused considerable damage in the town of 

 Aliddleburg, the most of it apparently being confined to the portion 

 bordering on Bethany in Genesee county. He adds that Alessrs 

 A. C. and N. AI. Ewell estimate the loss in Aliddleburg at several 

 thousand dollars. These gentlemen, in a later communication, place 

 the yield at 10 to 20 bushels an acre and the loss at 5, the normal 

 being 20 to 25. They estimate that 75 per cent of the fields were 

 infested and the loss at 33J/3 per cent. Some wheat fields appear 



