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SWISS CffARD 
HAWAII AH EZET iC&TOHM ( Hvmeni a fascial is Cramer) 
Alabama L* W^ Brannon (August 17) ; Swiss chard grown "by truckers in this 
vicinity (Birmingha ) . s L up " this insect. Damage 
ranged from to 100 :c-nt„ lore at) ■• ' •• as coi pared with". 
last month, and about the sane as co ■ Lh an average year* 
A LC1TSIC0BN BEETLE ( lietoemascinerea Oliv.) 
Alabama So Mo fiobinson (August 6); 3?rcm Jeff we arc informed that one 
of the large-horned beetles was guilty of girdling artichoke? 
about 2 feet from the top of the plant, The correspondent was 
attempting to raise these artichokes as hog feed* 
KSETS 
BEET ROOT APHID (pemph igus betae Doare) 
Utah George ?„ Ivnowlton (Acgust 21); The beet root aphid is doing 
considerable drmage :"n some beet fields west of Logan en cold. 
damp soil. There are few places in the State where this pest is 
doing much damage this year, 
BEET TEBYKBM fooaostege sticticalia L,) 
Iowa Carl J. Drake (August 20): The sugar-beet webwonn is doing 
considerable damage to alfalfa and corn in the western portions of 
Sioux and Plymouth Counties*, The county agents and farmers report 
that the worms have beer eating leaves end the rilk.-cf the corn. 
Many ears of late covn have been badly Injured because the webworms 
have eaten off all of the silk, Some of the farmers report rather 
extensive damage here and there in the counties, 
Nebraska If* K„ Swenk (August l6) i During ; She second week in August the 
sugar-beet webworm : . ;s red in large numbers in the stubble fields 
cf Boyd County, feeding chiefly en the Russian thistles but also 
doing some injury to com. 
Utah G-* F. Khowlton (July 30) ; There were several outbreaks of the sugar- 
beet webworm around Cornish and Lewiston this spring,, 
PF-PPER 
PEPPER T5E3VIL (AnthonoCTis eugenii CenS) 
California J„ 0, Elmore (August 25 )• ^be pepper weevil has spread to practi- 
cally all rarts of the pepper-growing area in Orange County and 
has become of major importance there, In many fields where otherwise 
large yields should be obtained the loss is estimated at 50 to 65 
per cent cf the crop It seems that the first setting which has 
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