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Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 26): More abundant than for many years, and sone 
conspicuous loss in yields* First reports- received this month. Reported 
from all parts of the State. 
WHEAT JOINTWORM ( Harnolita tritici Fitch) 
Ohio, T. H, Parks (July 27 ) - In 3^ counties where wheat ha„s been inspected 
this pest has increased in sone counties and caused sone loss of heads in 
a few fields. Average for the State was 8.7 percent, as compared with 7*25 
percent 1 year ago. 
WHEAT STEM MAGGOT ( Meromyza anericana Fitch) 
Minnesota. A. G. Rugglcs and assistants (July 8): Reported as causing consider- 
able trouble in Wabasha, Wabasha County. 
Nebraska. H. D. Tate (July 17)? Damaging wheat in Gage County on June 19. 
THRIPS (Thysanoptera) 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles and assistants (July 8): Moderately abundant at 
Hastings. Wheat dried up in places. Immature insects abundant at ba.ses 
of leaves. Very few adults on July 5* 
CORN 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus leucopterus Say) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (July l): Occurring in great numbers at Ripley, 
Lauderdale County, where they destroyed 2 acres of oats end 3 acres of corn 
near the oats. This is the second outbreak in the State in the last 20 
years. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (July 24): No serious outbreak has developed. Enough 
occurred in a whoatfield in Allen County to damage seriously several rows 
of corn adjoining the wheat. Not numerous enough elsewhere to cause concern, 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 26 ^: Late- reports of local outbreaks in the northern 
part of the State still being received. This has been a most unusual season 
for chinch bugs. Weather conditions until recently have slowed up develop- 
ment. Infestations in eastern Indiana have centered in Huntington, Wells, 
Adams, and Blackford Counties. In western Indiana the heaviest and most 
general infestations have been in Benton and White Counties, local outbreaks 
occurring in Newton, Lake, Jasper, Pulaski, Marshall, and Fulton Comities 
to the north, and in Warren, Tippecanoe, Clinton, and Montgomery Counties to 
the south. Despite unfavorable weather there is a heavy carry-over in the 
larger area of the State, where the bugs overwintered successfully. 
