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BILLEUGS ( SphenoTohorus spp. ) 
L. Haseraan (June 20): A small species of "billVag Inas "been reported 
■by a nvdher of groTrers in the central part of the State. 
'J. W. McC-olloch {Jvne 10): l.!aiz3 billbngs, S^^henpphoros naidis 
Chittenden, \iere reported ncmerous in fields at i5ariun, iT^Otot of the 
injury heing on hotton land. (Jnne 12): Sr^henciphor^ao callqeus 
Oliv. has destroyed cne-half of the com in a tield near Ola the. 
SUOAR-C^iffi BSiTIS '2uetheola ra.^ ice-ns Lee.) 
G. M. Bentley (June 17): Several reports h^ve "been received of 
adult injury to aro-ning corn caiised hy the carrot heetle or sugar- 
cane beetle - 
E. 17. Harned (June 20): Complaints in re^rd to the rough-headed 
com stalk-heetle have "been received from Montgomery, Neshoba, Yazoo, 
Carroll, and Oktibbeha. Coimties. 
BAIJDED FLEA- BEETLE (System taeniata Say) 
J. J. Davis (Ilay 24): P.eceived I.Iay 24 to June 5, from Veedersb^irg 
and west to Frankfort, Fairmoijnt , and Fort Tayne on the north and 
east. The larvae burrowed i.nto the roots and developing shoot, 
b§fore and after it appeared above ground. All records shovr it to 
be common only in fields "hich -.^ere in weedy sod or other weedy 
ground last fall. The most severe injiorj* is in spring plowed land. 
The species has not been positively identified as it has not been 
reared. 
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C. C. Compton (June 10): Tlie larvae of the pale-striped flea-beetle 
has severely injtured sprouting corn in the field in Xjhdall and 
LaSalle CoLUities. Eeplanting was necessary in fields totaling 68 
acres, (June 18): The larva of this insect has been found injur- 
ing corn in a n""jmber of fields in the central and northern parts of 
the State. 
SEED-COEIT MAGC-OT ( Hylemyia cilicr^ora Bond. ) 
C." E. Crosby (June 17): At Auburn 14 acres of corn were so badly 
injured "oy Pho rbia fugcioeiDs that it will be necessary to plow it 
up and replant. 
T. K. Parks (J^one 23): Damage to corn occ-orred generally from this 
pest, which destroyed germinating kernels of corn during Iviay. Cold, 
wet weather greatly dela^'ed germination and growth of the seedling, 
E. H. Pettit (J-une 19): Tie are svffering from an attack of the bean 
maggot, both in beans and in sprouting corn. While this attack is 
not nearly so serious as the one a few years ago yet it is fairly 
common. So far as I can determine at this stage of the ^me, men 
who seeded their land early, who seeded a.t a depth of one-half inch, 
and who used rotted manure have escaped. Of course, in the case of 
alfalfa worse roots keep the maggot so mv.ch longer. Fall plowing 
is necessary. 
