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that section of the State. On volunteer wheat eggs have been de- 
posited in alarming numbers and considerable trouble will no doubt 
develop where fields of volunteer wheat are permitted to stand 
throughout the fall and winter and then give off flies in the spring. 
Weather conditions have delayed wheat seeding 3nd have no doubt 
helped materially in the northern part of the State, with the fly 
problem on the coming crop. South of the Missouri River condi- 
tions have been different; the fall rains stopped in time for early 
seeding and unfortunately too much of the v;heat in the counties 
south of the Missouri River v;ent into the ground from one to three 
weeks too early. Ps s result of this early seeding s number of 
farmers are already reporting the serious situation, asking for help 
in the way of saving the crop th3t is now doomed. /'s an illustra- 
tion one grower in Jackson County whose letter is just before me, 
dated October 16, states that his 80 acres of wheat v/as seeded on 
September 10, and that it is now heavily infested, some of the flies 
already approaching the flaxseed stage. This wheat of course is 
doomed if the fly is as abundant as he reported and it is of course 
too late to plow under and prepare the ground for reseeding. Through 
Central Missouri the fly is depositing eggs later than usual, no 
doubt due to the prolonged cold rainy spell which did not desist 
until about October 6- Generally speaking in the northern half of 
the State the fly situation looks more promising than earlier, while 
south of the river, v/here in spite of our protests early seeding 
has occurred, the situation looks much more threatening though the 
fly is apparently not so abundant sou£h of the river as it appears 
to be on volunteer wheat north of the river." 
CORN 
CORN E/R T VORM ( Chloridea obsoleta Pab.) 
Maine E, M. Patch (October 8). "In September, 1892, Maine experienced a 
visitation of this insect. The next time this insect appeared in -•- 
such numbers as to attract attention was late in September, 1915. 
Then we forgot what it looked like until October 1 to October 7, 1921, 
when early- instar specimens began to rash in and reports of serious 
infestations were received from Skowhegan, Charleston, Port Clyde, 
and .'uburn, n . . 
Massa- H. T. Pernsld (October 13 )„ "A most unusual outbreak of the corn ear- 
chusetts worm occurred during the latter half of September and the first half . 
of October. We usually h^ve from two to three cases a year from the 
extreme southeastern part of the State only. This year four reports 
were received from September 13 to September 27. Reports then start- 
ed to come in in numbers and by October 13 twenty-five additional 
reports had been received. Sweet corn seemed to have been most 
seriously infested, in some cases the infestation being as high as 
95 to 100 per cent. Field corn and ensilage corn were slightly in- 
fested, and one report was received of damage to popcorn.'' 
