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and southeastern" Arkansas. In a large part of this area all oat fields 
have been rather generally infested. In Arkansas County, where there are 
approximately 80,000 acres of winter oats, probably one-fourth of the 
crop was lost. Scattered injury has appeared in other counties of the 
northern part of the State. This injuryls spotted, occurring only in 
occasional fields, and in spots within the fields. There has been some 
damage to row crops and pastures. Migrations of armyworms have usually 
been from oats to other crops. The outbreak is in Benton, Boone, Washing- 
ton, Crawford, Franklin, Independence, Pulaski, Lonoke, ■ Prairie, Saint 
Francis, Monroe, Lee, Jefferson; Arkansas, Phillips, . Lincoln, Desha, Drew, 
and Chicot Counties. It now seems to be well under ■ control. 
Fort Smith American (May IS): Crops in the immediate vicinity of 
Fort Smith, Sebastian County, are being damaged 'seriously by armyworms. 
Oklahoma. C. F. Stiles (May 20): The true army worm is present throughout the 
State.. It is severely injuring all small grains, especially wheat, rye, 
and barley. This is, the most severe outbreak Oklahoma has experienced. 
Wheat that a week ago would have made UO -bushels per acre is now not worth 
cutting, and the ravages continue unchecked. (May 27): Armyworms are 
devouring everything in northeastern Oklahoma. ■ ■ 
F. A. Fenton (May 2'+): On May 13 a report was received of infesta- 
tion from the true armyworm at Grandfield, Tillman County, in southwestern 
Oklahoma. Following this, calls for help were received from widely scat- 
tered counties— Jackson, Comanche, Cotton, Caddo, Grady, Garvin, and 
Jefferson— in the southwestern part of the State. The infestation ex- 
. ;■ tends across Oklahoma into Osage County and to the Kansas border. The 
damage is mostly in wheat, but oats and barley are also being injured. The 
larvae are beginning to move out into row crops, mostly corn and cotton. 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (May 17-21): Armyworms reported in wheat and causing 
injury in Wilbarger, Clay, and Grayson Counties on the Red River. ' They are 
about two-thirds grown. 
FALSE. WIREWORMS ( Eleodes spp. ) 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (May 21): The plains 'false wireworm (E. opaca 
Say) is extremely abundant in the drier areas' of South Dakota and is doing 
much damage to wheat,. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swe.nk (May 12): The latest report of the season for the Plains 
false wireworm was on May 12, when these pest 3 were reported to be dam- 
aging the roots of wheat plants, in Hitchcock County. 
Idaho. C. Wakeland (May 25): Larvae of E. hispilabris Say and E. extricata 
Say are injuring spring-planted and fall-planted wheat in dry- farming 
areas in eastern Idaho. A control district operating in Teton expects to 
distribute poisoned bait over an area of approximately 10,000 acres' not 
treated last fall. Approximately 15,000 acres were poisoned last fall. 
