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Kansas 
Kansas 
Kansas 
Ohio 
Illinois 
Kansas 
J. TT. McColloch (September 20): Conditions have been very favor- 
able for the Hessian fly. Plenty of rain in many sections of the 
State brought up a good stand of volunteer wheat. Fly emergence 
which started -July 26 has continued and much of the volunteer grain 
is infested. "Flaxseeds" can now be found and emergence from this 
volunteer wheat can be expected in the near future. 
GREATER WHEAT- STEM MAGGOT (M eromyza americana Fitch) 
J. W. McColloch (September 20 ): Volunteer wheat sent in from Ells- 
worth was heavily infested with the maggots of this species. 
GREAT- PLAINS FALSE WIREWOEA (S leodes onaca Say) 
J. W, McColloch (September 20): Two reports of injury have been 
received from the southwestern part of the State. A farmer at 
Plains has lost ZOO acres of wheat seeded this fall. At Satanta, 
Haskell County, two fields show serious damage. There has been 
little rain in the southwestern part of the State this fall. 
CORN 
EUROPEAN COM BORER ( Pyraust a nubila lis Huebn. ) 
H. A. Gossard (September 20): The European corn borer is spread- 
ing southward much more rapidly than in former years and intensity 
of infestation has increased greatly during the last year. Com- 
mercial damage in the infested districts is still less than 1 per 
cent, if ^e do not take into account the increased expense for 
harvesting and the embarrassments of the quarantine, but it is 
quite evident that the commercial damage will be very much greater 
in a year or two more. 
CHINCH BUG (Blissus le uco-pterus Say) 
W. ?. Flint (September): Continued rains during late August and 
September have made conditions very unfavorable for second-brood 
bugs, and have so reduced their numbers that there will be no dan- 
ger of severe damage in any section of the State during 1925. 
•I. W. McColloch (September 20): Chinch bugs are still abundant 
in the com and sorghum fields but are not causing serious damage. 
Cool, rainy weather throughout much of the State has been favor- 
able to crops and has had a tendency to reduce the chinch bug in- 
festation. 
Illinois 
CORN SAPJYORM ( Heliothi s ob^oleta Fab.) 
~. ?. Flint (September): According to J. H. Bigger, the corn ear- 
worm is not as abundant as usual in Illinois this season. Counts 
made in western Illinois during the last week show only about 7 to 
per cent infestation. 
