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plants .• .Although thx» condition was general throughout the 
corn-growing portions of Nebraska, it was especially severe 
in northeastern Nebraska in an area Including the Platte 
Valley. These injuries were most intense from May 20 to 
June 5. 
Kansas J. 7v\ McColloch (June 6): Cutworms have caused sore injury 
to corn at Sabetha and Dell'vare. (June 11): Prodenia ornith - 
ogalli Guen. has caused some injury to corn in a field in 
Morris County. 
Mississippi R. W; Harned (June 24): A correspondent at Conehatta, New- 
ton County, sent to us on June 15 specimens of Progenia ^ri - 
dania Cram., with the information that they were eating the 
leaves and small tomatoes on her tomato plants. Cne May 28, 
County Agent C G. Steele, of Clarksdale.sent specimens of 
Prodenia ornithogallj- Guen. to this office with the report 
that they were -doing quite a lot of damage to young cotton 
in his section. On May 29 a correspondent at Crawford re- 
ported the same insect eating the leaves of cotton. 
Arizona 0. L. Barnes (June 24): Peltia annexa Treit. and other 
species are very abundant at Buckeye. 
General C. N. Ainslie (June 3): further investigations of cutworm 
infestation reveals the fact that- a large- area extending over 
southeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and north- 
eastern Iowa has this year an abnormal number of cutworms of 
varying. sizes that are doing great injury to both garden and 
field crops. Some cornfields have the- worms present in nearly 
every hill and farmers are compelled to replant. A lot of 
150 worms submitted for identification showed Zuxoa messoria 
Harr. the dominant form present. 
ARMYVORM ( Cirphis uni^uncta Haw.) 
Her York Weekly Hews Letter, tf. Y. State College of Agr. , June 24: 
Arnyworms are very thick in seme hay fields and have forced 
many to harvest their hay prematurely. 
Pennsylvania T. L. Guyton (June 2S);- I am sending larvae which I havS 
identified as armyworms. They were collected on oats and 
wheat in Lancaster County. on June 20. 
Indiana J. J. Davis (June 27): The armyrorm damaged corn at Greens- 
burg (June 10). 
