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The Iowa agent, Prof. Herbert Osborn, gives a general summary of 

 the ' injurious insects of Iowa for the season of 1892, reports upon 

 farther experiments upon grass insects, and gives an account of cer- 

 tain tests made with the White Grub fungus of Europe against our 

 American species. 



The Missouri agent, Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt (who was also fur- 

 loughed at the close of the last fiscal year on account of the reduction 

 in the appropriation), gives in her report an account of certain insects 

 which have been prominent in her vicinity during the season, bringing 

 out, notably, an important point in the life-history of the Cabbage 

 Curculio, and describing a serious attack upon Spinach by a small 

 leaf-beetle. 



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