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florist in the nortliern part of the State complained bitterly of the 

 ravages of the pest in his carnations set out of doors. Carnations in 

 the experiment station greenhouses suffered severelj' in March from 

 the attacks of cutworms {Peridroma saucia), which fed on the petals 

 and burrowed into the unopened bttds, working chiefly at night. 



The Southern turkey gnat {Simidium meridioncde) became quite 

 abtindant in Wayne County during May, catising considerable uneasi- 

 ness among teams working in the fields near their breeding jDlaces. 

 One of these places was located not far from Wooster, in a little brook 

 fed by springs and flowing over a rocky bed. Adults were abundant 

 May 11, and larv?e — some of them very small — and pupae, as well as 

 adtilts, were all found on the 16th of same month. 



The Southern corn leaf-beetle {^Iijochrous deuticodis) did not reap- 

 pear in destructive abundance this year in the area where it did so 

 mttch injury to young corn last year. VTe now know that it hiber- 

 nates, in part at least, in the adult stage. 



Brucliopliagiis funebris is widely distributed over the State, and its 

 injuries to red clover seed are frequenth' reported during autumn. 



The gTapevine root Avorm {Fidia vUicida), which was less destruc- 

 tive last year than it had been for some time, seems to have taken on 

 a new vigor, and is this year again very abundant on the grape. 

 Strangely enough, its ravages are still mostly confined to the grape 

 region abotit Cleveland, extending therefrom much farther to the east 

 than to the west. In a small nursery, near Tif&n, some 85 miles to 

 the west, a small lot of yoting grapevines was attacked and the 

 leaves \evy badly eaten, while in no other part of the grounds were 

 the gi'apevines attacked. Arsenate of lead has not given tis much 

 satisfaction in fighting this pest, and the results of this year's experi- 

 ments with this insecticide in the vineyards have not been very satis- 

 factorj', though not conclusive. 



The canker worm {Pcdeacrda vernata) was present in many sections 

 of the State in increasing numbers. There was some complaint of 

 the inefficiency of arsenate of lead against these, but in all cases of 

 failure investigated the spraying had been done in an inefficient man- 

 ner, and the result could hardly have been otherwise than inelf ecttial. 



The corn worm [Helioiliis armiger) not only attacked young grow- 

 ing corn, but also worked in the broom corn, doing considerable 

 damage to the latter. 



The western corn root worm [Diahrotica longicorn is), though it occurs 

 locallj' eastward to the Atlantic coast, is not known as a pest east of 

 central Ohio. Its advance across the State from the west has been 

 observed by entomologists, and this advance throughout the corn- 

 groAving sections has been indicated in the bulletins of the experi- 

 ment station. During the last nine 3'ears everyone connected with 

 the entomological department of the station has watched carefully 

 for the first appearance of the insect about Wooster, but not until last 



