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Connecticut 
Tennessee A. C. Worsen-, J.U.Gilmorc, and J. Milair (June 22): The iirport- 
od cabbage worm has "been unusually abundant around Clarksville. 
DIAMOND-BACK MOTH ( Plutel la psaculipennis Curt. ) 
H. G. Walker and G. E. Gould (June 15): The larvae were 
quite abundant in many cabbage fields of the Norfolk district 
and caused considerable loss ^y chewing into the small cabbage 
heads. This is the first record of noticeable injury from 
this insect in recent years. - 
CABBAGE MAGGOT ( Hylemyia brassicae Bouche) 
A. E. Wilkinson (May 28): The cabbage maggot is attacking 
cabbage at Middletown. Tho damage is from 5 -to 15 per cent on 
the 13 farms visited, in the neighborhood of Middletown. On 
nine farms visited at Cheshire and Milldale, the drmneb. r-^s 
'ttoih 5*t5"S5"pb? "°-' 5 *fci 1$ Hfkf V70rse at Milldale, where it has 
been common for years. One grower alone will probably lose 
2,000 to 3,000 plants. At North Devon the one farm not treated 
shows 66 per cent loss. 
L. M. Chapman (June 2): Noted several fields' at Westport and ■ 
Bridgeport with damagod plants running up to 60 per cent of 
stand. Nearly every field showed some injury. 
N. Y£ State Coll. of Agr. , Weekly News Letter (June): The 
cabbage maggot is so serious in central and astern New York 
that unscreened cabbage seed beds were damaged from 15 to 60 
per cent and in a few cares all of the alants were destroyed 
during the first two weeks in the month. (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
N. J. State Coll. of Agr., Weekly Ne^s Letter (June): Many 
fields of cabbage were practically ruined by cabba,ge maggots 
late in May and early in June in northern New Jersey. This 
insect is said to have been much more serious than it has been 
for several years. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
J. J, Davis (June 24); The cabbage maggot was destructive to 
cabbage at Carthage, June 8, and to radish at Greensboro, June 4, 
and at Pierceton, June 14. 
W. A. Price (June 25): Tho caboage root maggot is doing con- 
siderable damage at Dry Pddge. 
C. H. Koonz (June 24): The cabbage maggot is very abundant. 
A CHUYSOMELID ( Entomoscelir. ac 'onidis Pallas) 
A. G. Haggles (June 24): This chrysomclid larva which was eat- 
ing the centers out of j r oung plants a.t Sax, early in Juno, ha.s 
been determined by H. S. Barber as Ji ^dpnidis. 
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