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Noticeable damage is occurring in one field at Farmington, where 
the first-generation adults are now emerging . 
TOBACCO WORM ( protouarce auincuemaculata Haw.) 
K. L. Cockerham (April 22): The first specimen was found on 
the above date and since that time they have become numerous 
enough to necessitate hand picking on tomato plants in a garden 
at Biloxi. Many of the plants were "being severely defoliated. 
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CABBAGE 
CABBAGE MAGGOT ( Hylemyi a brassicae Bouche) 
Weekly News Letter, N. Y. State Coll. Agr. (June): The cabbage 
maggot is doing considerable damage in central and western 
New York. 
T. H. Parks .(May 22): The cabbage magsot was unusually 
abundant inWouthern Ohio this spring. Many growers lost a 
-part of their planting. 
E. L. Chambers (June 24): The cabbage maggot is again very 
serious on cabbage and radishes in many sections of the State 
where control measures are not being employed. 
W. B. Mabee (June 23): Cabbage maggots, although very 
abundant last season, ere scarce in comparison this year. 
G. F. Knowlton (June 18): Cabbage worms have done moderate 
injury to cabbage at Cottonwood and Murray. 
KARLEQJJIN BUG ( Murgantia histrionica Hahn) 
Z. P. Metcalf (June 20): The harlequin bug is very abundant. 
G. M. Bentley (June 13): The harlequin bug is scarce in Knox 
County. 
J. M. Eobincon (June 20): The harlequin bus: is very abundant 
in Birmingham. 
R. W. Karned and assistants (June): The harlequin bug is 
doing considerable damage to cabbage in the south-central part 
of the State, 
CABBAGE CURCULIO (Ceutorhynchus rapae Gyll . ) 
J. J. Davis (June 20): The c?bbage curculio was reported as 
damaging 75 per cent of the cabbage plants in a commercial seed 
bed at Vincennes, May 24, according to F. E. Lotbrop. 
