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H. E. Jaques (August 27) : Chinch "bugs are very abundant in 
Clay County. 
L. Haseman (September 28): The chinch bug is very abundant on 
late sweet corn, tomatoes, and on garden beans in Columbia. 
There are 2 or 3 to an ear of late corn. 
H. R. Bryson (September 25): Chinch bugs are very scarce at 
Manhattan. Damage was not so severe in the south-central and 
southeastern counties as might heave been expected from the number 
of old bugs which successfully passed the winter. 
J. M. Robinson (August 20): The chinch bug was abundant in 
cornfields August 10, at Huntsville, Madison County. 
CORE LANTERN FLY ( Pere,;rinus maidis Ashm.) 
C. Lyle (September 22): Specimens of the corn lantern fly, 
were abundant in a cornfield at A. & M. College on September 17. 
CORN LEAF APHID ( Aphis maidis Fitch) 
M. H. Swenk (August 1 to 31): During the period from August 
12 to 21 there were numerous complaints of an abundance of the 
corn-leaf aphid on the tassels and in the leaf axils of the corn. 
These reports came mostly from the central part of the State, 
from Platte and Boone Counties north to Holt County and south to 
Clay and Franklin Counties. Apparently, however, no very serious 
damage was done. 
CLOVER 
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North Carolina 
Tennessee 
GREEN CLOVER WORM ( Plathypena scabra Fab . ) 
C. R. Willey (September 28): The green clover worm did being 
considerable damage to soybeans in Hanover County, several fields/ 
badly damaged on August 10. Many moths were flying and pupae 
were easily found in debris on the ground. 
W. A. Thomas (August 19): A few fields of soybeans in the 
vicinity of Chadboum have become so heavily infested that the 
growers have been forced to harvest them for hay several weeks 
earlier than the usual harvesting date. Practically every field 
in the section is more or less injured. Snap beans a.re also 
being attacked. There is little parasitism. 
C. H. Brannon (August 12): An unusually serious outbreak is 
occurring all over eastern i'North Carolina, damaging soybeans 
mostly. Damage to alfalfa, in the Piedmont also noticed. 
C. Benton (August): A rather severe and general outbreak was 
observed occurring on soybeans and occasional field of cowpeas 
