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P0TAT0 APHID ( THr.noia solanifolii Asnm.| 
Maryland P.D.Sanders (May 19): The greatest damage was being dene by the 
feeding upon the blossom buds causing them to drop to the ground, 
These buds usually produce the early tomatoes to be used for 
early green tomato shipments. This infestation is the most 
severe Maryland ha^ had since 1913 and is general throughout 
Somerset and lo-er Wor Chester Counties. 100 per cent plants in- 
fested and as high as 3*+aiMds were found to a single leaf, 
BOLL WORM ( lieliothis ob sol at a Fab.) 
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PI or i da F,S»Chairiberlin (May 11): Eggs of this insect are being deposited 
in abundant numbers upon tomato foliage in Gadsden County, 
CARROT BEETLE (Li gyrus gibbosus DeG.) 
Texas F.L.Thomas (May 17)-* Causing considerable injury to roots of 
, tomato plants in Garza County on May 3- 
■ • TOMATO SUCEFLY ( Dicyphus m inimus Uhler) 
Texas F. L» Thomas (April 22): Abundant and causing severe injury 
to tomatoes in a garden at Dilley, Frio County. 
C ABB AGS 
CABBAGE APHID ( Brevicoryai brass? cae L. ) 
Maryland P. D. Sanders (May l): infested plants stunted, leaves curling, 
and turning yellow. The 17,000 plants were dusted with a k 
per cent nicotine dust (sulphate source) using 90 per cent air 
lime and 10 per cent arsenate of lead as a carrier. A 97 P e ** 
cent kill was effected. 
IMPORTED CABBAGE WORM ( Bier is raoae L« ) 
Missouri L. Haseman (May 21): This pest is unusually scarce this spring 
in central Missouri, and abundance as compared w ith an average 
year seems to be less. 
CABBAGE MAGGOT (Hy lenyia bra?sicae Douche') 
Indi J. J. Davis (May 25) : The cabbage maggot has been the subject of 
numerous queries from central and northern Indiana as a post 
of cab bage and radish, 
STRAV.TERET 
SUGARCANE BEETLE (Euetheola rj; Lee. ) 
-iscippi R. W, Earned (May lU) ; 77. l. Gray, Inspector for the State 
Plant Board at Natchez, collected on April -"29 some rough-headed 
cornstalk" beetler, or sugarcane beetles, on the croms of 
