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SMUT BEETLE (F halacru s politus Melsh. ) 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (June 15-July 10): An abundance of the smut beetle 
on ripening wheat was reported from Furnas County during the last 
week in June. 
77HEAT JOINTTCORM ( Karmolita t ritici Fitch) 
North Carolina F. Sherman (July 5): Tnis is usually a minor pest with us. There 
have been several recent reports. 
Missouri 
Kansas 
L. Baseman (July 20): Stubble infested as follows: 
Springfield 
Charleston 
Cuba 
2 per cent 
per cent 
17 per cent 
Columbia - 1.7 per cent 
Maryville - per cent 
St. Louis - 11.5 per cent 
It is worse in some fields than the Hessian fly. 
WHEAT STBAWWOEM (H armolita grand is Riley) 
J. W. -licColloch (July 19): The wheat strawworm, while it was very 
abundant in the fields of northwestern Kansas this year, apparently 
..:didrnotr reduce the yield as much as was anticipated. This is pro- 
• bably due to the fact that the second brood was delayed somewhat 
in its emergence, and at the same, time conditions were favorable 
for early maturity of the wheat crop. While practically every 
straw was infested, yet the infestation did not take place in time 
for the heads to become blighted. (July 20): The area of heav- 
iest infestation was in the northwestern part of the State from 
Graham and Finney Counties westward. Slight injury was general 
over the State. No actual figures are available yet as to the 
real loss. Many samples of wheat had every straw infested and 
the heads blighted or poorly filled. 
COFN 
CHINCH BUG ( Elissus leucopterus Say) 
Indiana 
Illinois 
Missouri 
J. J. Davis (July 22): No reports of injury or abundance of this 
insect have been received so far. 
W. P. Flint (July 21): The heavy rains of May and June have so 
reduced the numbers of this insect that there will probably be no 
necessity of taking any active measures of combating this pest 
during the present summer. It is present in fields in central 
and southern Illinois in smaller numbers than has been the case 
since 1912. 
L. Baseman (July 20): The pest, in spite of rains, has done some 
migrating in southwestern and north-central Missouri, though over 
the State as a whole the chinch bug situation is favorable. Some 
signs of fungus are present. 
