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be exempt thus far from attack. (J. U. Metz, East Amherst, 

 Erie co.) 



J. F. Rose of South Byron reports as follows: A large acre- 

 age of what early promised to be good wheat will not be worth 

 cutting as a result of Hessian fly attack. A few farmers are 

 plowing up their wheat but as the wet weather has been favor- 

 able for a good catch of clover, many will not plow it up as 

 they are anxious to save the seeding. Very little or no white 

 wheat will be harvested in this vicinity. Some farmers I saw 

 yesterday had not been in their wheat fields for a few days and 

 the grain had gone to the bad very rapidly since they saw it. I 

 visited and examined wheat fields in three towns today and I 

 have heard some bad reports from other neighboring towns. 

 Several fields of red wheat have been examined and they are not 

 badly infested as yet. 90% however, of the wheat in this section 

 is white, a variety known as no. 6. It has been exclusively 

 grown for some years, as the quality is good and it is a fine 

 yielder. The red wheat is known as no. 8. As regards prox- 

 imity of other fields, there is so much grown that all fields are 

 comparatively close. Probably there is no field that is a half 

 mile from another and most of them are much nearer or within 

 a quarter mile of one another. The prospect early was very 

 good for yields of 20 to 35 bushels an acre in all fields, as there 

 was little winter injury. A field near here belonging to G. Gr. 

 Chick was not sown till the first week in October and it looked 

 well much later in May than early sown fields, but today Mr 

 Chick tells me that there will be no wheat. This wheat is no. 6. 

 One farmer reports that the fly can now be found in barley. 

 Regarding the farmers from whom I have reports, it is quite 

 certain that some of them have estimated their yield of wheat 

 too high. The few stalks standing are about as thick as hoop 

 poles and when pulled up it is found that they are infested with 

 the fly to some extent. The damage will hardly exceed 5$ in 

 the fields of red wheat. The following are reports from fields 

 of wheat in this vicinity: 



