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William Scoins of Stafford township has 4 acres of white 

 wheat sown September 7 or 8 and he will not get his seed 

 back. 16 acres sown September 20 is no better than his earlier 

 sown pieces, though it did not show injury as early in the 

 spring. 



Charles Buckland of South Byron has 15 acres of red wheat 

 sown September 5 and 75$ to 80$ of it is apparently all right. 



George Kelly of South Byron has 8 acres of red wheat sown 

 September 1 and 80$ of it is free from injury. Another field 

 of 42 acres of red wheat sown between September 3 and 8 

 looks well and bids fair to vield 25 to 30 bushels an acre. 



William Cork of South Bvron sowed 8 acres of red wheat 

 September 9 and 75$ of it is all right. In sowing this field, the 

 drill skipped two strips across the field and when the wheat 

 came up the omission was seen and white wheat was sown in its 

 place. The Hessian flies have destroyed all of this white wheat. 



John Berlin of Elba township sowed 54 acres of red wheat 

 between September 10 and 13 and he estimates that his crop 

 will average more than 20 bushels an acre. There is very 

 little evidence of insect injury. 



The Hessian fly is also in rye, timothy and barley in this 

 vicinity. A perfectly reliable farmer tells me that he has found 

 as many as 50 larvae of the fly in one stalk of barley. One of 

 our large farmers in South Byron is now cutting his barley and 

 curing it for hay, it is so badly infested with Hessian fly. I 

 went yesterday to see some wheat in Leroy township that is 

 locally known as golden chaff or Clauson's golden chaff. This 

 is a white wheat and has been but little troubled with the 

 Hessian fly. It is no more injured than the red wheat, known 

 as no. 8. Many farmers will sow this kind and the red wheat 

 but if none of the flies' favorite no. 6 be sown, Mr Rose is 

 inclined to think that these more or less resistant varieties will 

 suffer another year. 



R. L. Harrison of Lockport, Niagara co. investigated the in- 

 juries by Hessian fly in his vicinity and the reports received 

 by him do not vary very much from those made by other parties. 



