check hj'" the present crop rotation spste.us. Losses v/ere henvj-', hov/over, in 
Saskatchewan end Alherta. In' the lorner Province damage v/as x-irides^Dread and 
severe* averaging as high as 10 'percent in some aneas and 15 to 20 percent 
in others. In Alherta, losses wore general and more severe than anticiioaked, 
some fields shoviing a rcdnction of vield of 3 'to 10 bushels per acre. Sur- 
veys aAso showed severe losses in severaA northern areas v/here such dafiage 
had not previously ';ecn recorded, 
^'^-ea.t crop losses due to stinkhug were more extensive in Alherta 
than in any season since 193 ^ • ' 
DanaP;e h;?' the whcathea.d ann;/worn estina„tod at 0,5 to 5 percent occurred 
in west-central Saskatchewan, affecting chiofly wheat seeded on stuhhle land, 
Considerahle damage to pastures and field cro'ps oy white grubs wa.s 
reported in southern and south— central Onta.rio, 
The beet webvn rn was widespread- in the Peane Liver district and through- 
out the Prairie Provi'nces. In southern Alberta a small percentage of the 
beet crop va5 destroyed and yields vrere red'O-Ced on so ^e 10,000 acres. 
The usual reports of conspicn.ous abimdance of the irnorted cahbage worn 
vfCTQ received from various points in the Dominion, 
Plea* beetles were noted as inj’arious to crops in the Annapolis Valley, 
ITova Scotia, and in southern sections of Quebec, Alberta, and in the Victoria, 
district, British Columbia., 
The codlin^ moth infestation in the Berwick district, hova Scotia, was 
unusuadlj^ heav;:a, anc’ for the first time evidence of a second generation v/as 
obtained^ In Dorfolk County, Ontario, first-bnood ac.ults were taken as late 
a.s September 3, Injury in this area varied from a trace in well-sprayed 
orchards to as much as- 25 percent, - Inf estations. were hcav;'^ in so'uthwostern 
Ontario, but less sovere than in 19 ^ 0 , in spite of favorable weather condi- 
tions, In the Okanaa’-an Valley, British Columbia., where the most serious out— 
breaJc on record had been feared, damage from late codling n^th attack wa.s 
less tha.n evnected. This . wa-s a.s'sociated with an lunseanonably cool- and wet 
September:,' ^ 
Second-generation oriental fruit moth tv/ig infesta.tion in the Niagara 
district, Ontario, was only 3 *^ percent, compared with 24,3 percent in 1940, 
There ha.s .been a genera.1 reduction in the numbers of the Europea.n spruce 
sav/fly in the Iiaritine Provinces a.nd Quebec, east of the St. Lawrence. The 
species vjb.^ recoroed for the first tine in Howfoundland on August S. 
