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insect answering completely to my description in dead patches of 

 his meadow, which he had first noticed the preceding fall. From 

 Eberle, Effin2:ham county, Mr. Geo. Strong wrote of the ocurrence 

 of the meadow maggot in no very great numbers, adding that his 

 attention was first attracted to it by the work of the hogs in 

 pasture and meadow, rooting up patches of the sod. From San 

 Jose, Mason county, Mr. Wm. M. Duffy wrote that deadened ^ 

 patches such as I described were very numerous, and that on May 

 4 he found in these patches a few of the maggots mentioned. 

 From Arlington, in Bureau county, Mr. Louis Zearing wrote April 

 25 that this insect was not a new thing in his vicinity, but made 

 its first appearance there fifteen years before, its ravages being 

 then almost exclusively confined to blue-grass sod. From Milton, 

 Pike county, Mr. J. O. Bolin reported that for two years these 

 insects had injured his pastures in small patches, mostly blue- 

 grass sod; and Mr. E. H. Robb, of Waynes ville, DeWitt county, 

 wrote April 27 that he found them in both meadow and pasture 

 by the thousand, having first noticed them some six weeks before, 

 when breaking up meadow for corn. 



The injuries thus far reported are not of a gravity or frequency 

 to make special remedial measures seem important. Indeed, in 

 the Old World, where these insects are very much more destruc- 

 tive than here, and have been long well known, no remedies 

 have been devised which are satisfactory or would apply to our 

 agricultural conditions. If our species becomes so destructive as 

 to require special attention, it will probably be found best to plow 

 up the sod and plant to some other crop. It is worthy of re- 

 mark, however, that in a case reported from Los Angeles county, 

 California, by Dr. Eiley, great numbers were destroyed by driving 

 a flock of three hundred sheep over their haunts. Close tram- 

 pling of the earth by the slow passage of a drove of pigs would 

 doubtless answer the same purpose, which is that of destroying 

 the larvae lying free upon the surface or barely imbedded among 

 the roots (>f the grass. 



