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.•adults, they distributed themselves evenly over the rowed crops and 
deposited eggs at or near the base of each plant. Second-generation 
nynphs are in the second instar and nay cause considerable injury* Danag 
is accentuated by the hot, dry weather, which has favored the young bugs 
but has retar led the growth of the plants. 
Oklahoma. P. A. Pent on (July 24); Chinch bugs in barley at Sparks, in Lincoln 
County, and at Keystone, in Tulsa County. Infestation considered more 
severe than last year. Although winter survival approximately the sane 
as a year ago, the unusually dry spring favored the development of the 
bugs. In many places, owing to the failure of the grain crop, sorghums 
were planted in the sane field, -with disastrous results. There has been 
an increase in grain and barley acreage in this State and, if this contini 
we look for serious trouble. 
COHN LPAP APHID ( Aphis maid is Pitch) 
Illinois. H. A. Blanchard and J. H, Bigger (July 12): Doing serious damage to 
com in a number of fields in Union and Alexander Counties. Tassels and 
upper parts of plants seriously affected in 20 to 25 percent of the plants 
in some fields. 
COEN EAR WORM ( Helipthis armigera Hbn. ) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (July IS): Only a fe ir ’ seen on s^eet corn. 
New York, N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (July 24); Readily found in most 
fields of sweet corn on Lon-** Island, 'but injury less severe-then usual. 
(July 17); On Long Island the earliest plantings of corn had infestation 
by the first brood, although in general infestations were relatively low. 
Peak of the first— brood infestation apparently past. In Columbia County 
a few corn ear "-orms, nearly full grown, were noted. In Rockland County 
ear worms have caused about a normal amount of injury, 'about 10 percent 
of the ears being infested. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (July 27): At Norfolk sweet com 
maturing about July 10 was severely damaged, whereas the same varieties 
maturing about 10 to 15 days later, were only slightly injeired, 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (July l4) ; Reported on com. at Henagar, northeastern 
pent of the S^ate, on June 11. 
Mississippi, C, Lyle (July 24); Damage reported as heavy in the east-central, 
southeastern, and Delta counties. 
Illinois. J. M. Magner (June 2j): Pour acres of sweet corn in the Monsanto area 
a total loss owing tc damage. Larvae of all stages observed in the ears, 
as many as four per ear. ' 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (July 24): Unusually abundant and attacking both sweet 
and field - ' corn in the southeastern part of the State. 
