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Ohio, was there zo. sufficient infestation of the fly to 
cause any serious loss to this year's crop. This is the 
county where the infestation centered last year. In the 
other counties the fly has increased slightly. The average 
for the twenty counties this year is between 6 and 7 per 
cent. The infestation is H uite satisfactory excepting in 
Butler County and those counties " 7 hich immediately surround 
that county. Following are the percentages of infestation 
found in the counties visited: 
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Per cent 
Infestation 
Butler 34 
Clark 1.5 
Clerrcont 11 
Columbiana 6 
Delaware 4 
Fulton 4.5 
Hancock 1.6 
Henry 3 
Highland 13 
Knox 8.5 
Medina 5.6 
Mi ami 10 
Muskingum 7.5 
Fi ckaway 2 
Stark 4.4 
■Tarren. . ■. 10 
".'ayne 2.7 
Michigan 
R. H. Pettit (July 18): The Hessian fly is moderately 
abundant. 
.isconsin 
E. L.Chambers (July 18): The : Hessian fly seldom appears 
as doing any damage in Wisconsin but a field of winter wheat 
near New Kolstein v a s found quite heavily infested ~ith 
noticeable injury. 
South Dakota 
Iowa 
H. C. Severin (July 18): The Hessian fly is moderately 
abundant in Union and Clay Counties. 
C. J. Drake (July 23): The Hessian fly is very abundant 
along the Missouri River in western Iowa. A few hundred acres 
of wheat totally destroyed. 
fly 
H. E. Jaques (July): The Hessian/is moderately to very 
aburr' - nr in the southern half of the State. 
Missouri 
L, : aai (July 26): In central Missouri the flax-seed 
stage in the r . L ubble is very aoundant. 
