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food materials for the second generation, -ire drying up on account of 
the high temperatures and the lack of soil moisture. Old hugs are 
scarce in corn and sorghums, where they were very abundant after har- 
vest. Ho eggs and a very few nymphs, representing .all instars, could 
he found between the leaf sheath and the stalk in young sorghum plants. 
Reports of abundance have been received from Downs, Osborne County. 
Concentrated and well-planned efforts to control the chinch bug and 
protect the rowed crops with barriers resulted in a State-wide re- 
duction in the damage that might otherwise have occurred. 
CORN FAR WORM (Hello this obsoleta Fab.) 
Connecticut. R. B. Friend (July 23): Larvae have been found but were not 
common in Stratford, Hamdcn , and Glastonbury during July. 
New York. N.Y. State Coll. Agr'. News Letter (July): First larvae, of the 
corn ear worm were observed early in the month on Long Island. By the 
middle of the month they were seriously abundant. (Abstract J.A.H. ) 
West Virginia. L. M. Feairs (Julv 21): The corn ear worm is moderately 
abundant. 
' W. J. Schoene (July 2S) : The com ear worm has been reported fre- 
quently from the mountainous part of the State as causing serious in- 
jury to tomatoes and 1 to fields cf young corn. Although wo have a little 
i injury every yo^r from this species, it is much more conspicuous than 
■ usual. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (July 26): The com ear worn is from moderately 
abundant to very abundant on corn and tomatoes at Norfolk.- 
Illinois. W. r. Flint (July 12): The corn ear worm has been unusually 
abundant. Most of the injury occurred from the boring of the worms 
in the curl of the corn leaf. Field com is just beginning to silk 
in most fields in central Illinois. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (July 12): Corn ear worms ruined the early crop of 
tomatoes in counties along the Ohio Rivo'r. Many, samples are being re- 
ceived, together with injured corn leaves, showing whore the larvae 
fed on the opening leaves in the heart of young plants. V/c look for 
heavy damage to the ears later. j 
U. F. Howard (July 19): A serious infestation on tomato occurred 
in the Marietta district late in June end early in July. Twenty to 
Ho percent of the early clusters of tomatoes wore wormy,. I estimate 
the loss to the growers as somewhere between $25,000 and $35,000. Sev- 
eral years ago the tomato frait .v.'orn began to be a factor in early to- 
matoes and became more, serious until last year it constituted a real 
problem. This year it is more serious than ever, notwithstanding the 
severe winter of 1933-3^. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 23): From June 27 to July 9, numerous re- 
ports were received from all sections of the State, especially fro" 
sotxthern Indiana, of an abundance of the corn ear worn working in the 
