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Hew York 0* R» Crosby and assistsnte; This insect is doing considerable 
• damage on several -unprotected cabbage seed "beds in Genesee County. 
A severe infestation was noticed in several cabbage fields which 
were about 1/4 grown in Wayne County on June 6. 
M» D„ Leonard (June 9): Dr. Chupp reports, cabbage mag :: pts generally 
prevalent and des tractive to early cabbage in the field in Albany 
and Schenectady Counties. Many growers are planning to use 
corrosive sublimate treatment. 
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C. R. Crosby and assistants: Early cabbage in the field is receiving 
considerable injury as is late cabbage in the seed bed in Onondaga 
County. ■ Apparently it is more serious than last year. 
Ohio Eugene Mendenhall (June 5): The cabbage maggot is quite troublesome 
in the vicinity of Columbus this spring. 
H. A. Gossard (Ji^ne 23): The cabbage maggot has been quite destructiv 
locally about Wooster. The experimental plots on the Experiment: 
Station Farm were destroyed by the maggots before their presence 
was discovered and no preventive treatment had been followed from 
the date of transplanting. From one dozen to thirty or forty maggots 
could be found on the roots of every plants 
Indiana J. J. Davis (June 24): Reports of injury to cabbage and radish 
continued to be received from northern Indiana up to June 1. 
Illinois W. P. Flint (June -18.): .The cabbage maggot. has, according to C. C. 
Compton,been much more abundant ". than usual in this State. Severe 
damage has already occurred in many of -t ie 1 rge trucking sections. 
Wisconsin E. L. Chambers (June .10): The cabbage maggot is doing serious 
damage to radishes, cabbage, and cauliflower. Specimens of injured 
plants submitted were badly infested. 
Oregon Don C. Mote- (May 20): Very abundant and doing considerable damage, 
according to observations and reports. 
CABRAGE APHID ( Brevicoryne brasFicae L. ) 
Nebraska M* H. Swenk (May 22- June 2£): The cabbags aphid has been rather, 
more than normally injurious this spring. One extensive growerr.of 
cabbage in Boone County, has had to resort to spraying this year 
f6r the first, time. 
STRIPED FLEA BEETLE ( Phyllotreta vittata Fab. ) 
Illinois W. P. Flint (June 18): C. C«, Compton reports the cabbage flea 
beetle more abundant than usual this spring, causing severe injury 
to cabbage and cauliflower seedlings. 
ONION THRIPS ( Thrips t abaci Lind. ) 
Hew York H« C. Hucke.tt (June 13): Are becoming numerous In the seed bed of 
cauliflower at Riverhead. 
