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Hew York, IT, Y, State Coll, A.'^r, lTe\'/s Letter (Au^U-st): In eastern Hew York, 
in Hestchester Countv, the corn car v/orn wo.s causing danage of aLout 10 
percent on August 4, and in western Suffolk County on August 11 it was 
increasing in nuLUlcrs, Lcing present in the tips of the corn, and nainly 
in the young larval sta„gos. In v;estcrn Hew York la-rvae wore just hc- 
ginning to appear in Erie Coimty on August 19. 
Maryland, C, Grahan (July 30 Present at Bel Air and To\i^son on corn plant- 
ings , 
1, P, Ditnan (July and August): Moths increasing generaAly in sweet 
corn fields. 
Ohio. E, \>J^ Mendenhall (Au.gust 28): Corn oar worms a.re quite general in 
sweet corn ana causing considerable damage. 
Missouri, II. E. Brovn (August 29): Sweet corn maturing August 7*"46 was 32- 
percent infested. Some damayce, not serious,, has been noted to tomatoes, 
Minnesota,, A, G-. Puggles, et al, (August): Moderabely abundant on sweet 
corn on August 12, and during the latter ]part of July in Saint Paul and 
Minneapolis, 
Hebra,ska, 0, S, Pare (August 13) J Reported as dana^ging beaus in Garden 
Cotuity and tomatoes in York and Merrick Co'antics on July 19 and August 
5, Also reported as being numerou.s and damaging corn and tomatoes in 
Lancaster County d.u.ring the period from July l6 to August 13* 
Tcxa,s, P, Ewing et al, (July 26): At Ricsel, in McLennan County, 3f600 
oars of corn inspected showed an average of 5^»6 emergence holes per 100 
cars, (August 2): CH.it of 3»600 cars of corn inspected the aucrage v;as 
75 holes per 100 ears, 
Montana. E. J. Plctsch (August 20): Rather genera,! infestation on corn at 
Helena, Bozeman, and Billings, 
Utah, G, P, Knovrlton (July 25): Attacking field corn cans, and have damaged 
most ta,ssels, (July 29): Very destructive in sv/ect corn. All un- 
treabed patches heavily infested. Infesting 25 percent of the field 
corn examined at Roy, (July 31 )* hundred percent of the cans of 
corn examined in a pa,tch at Logan vrere infested, (Awqust 2): All sv/ect 
corn examined at Logan, Hyrum, and Wellsville, was infested by the corn 
ca.r worn, usually more than one larvae being present per ear, (August 
4): Scr iously attacking sv/eet corn at Pleasant Grove and Oron, and dam- 
aging sv/eet and field corn at Grantsville, (August 12) i Injury has 
lessened generally during the last 10 days, althougli largo percentages 
of the sv/ect corn arc still infested, (Au.gust 23)* Banaging sweet corn 
at Mendon, aud 70 percent of the cars infested in a patch examined east 
of Murray, 
