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County, the beetles were numerous the first week of the month and the last 
week of the month they were reported as stripping foliage in Chautauqua 
County. ■■.'•"■ ; 
SUGAR BEETS • 
BEET LEAFHOPPER (Euttetix tenellus Bakv) 
Utah. H. E. Dorst (June 25)? Large population of "beet leaf hoppers accompanied 
by flea "beetles have retarded the growth to resistant varieties of sugar 
beets in Sevier County, In the Hooper district from 10 to 15 percent of 
the tomato plants have contracted the western yellow "blight disease, trans- 
mitted "by the "beet leaf hopper, 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO FLEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula E,) : 
Virginia, W, J, Schoene (June 2H): There is an outbreak in the Piedmont section. 
This flea beetle injury is associated with certain diseases and the com- 
bined, effect has made it very difficult to obtain a stand of tobacco plants. 
The injury is the most severe on record, many plnats being completely con- 
sumed, _ .,.-..... 
North Carolina. W, A. Shands (June 25), t Severe injury by adults and larvae 
on newly set fluer-cured tobacco occurred in June in northwestern and 
north-central parts of North Carolina. Loss in stands and the presence of 
severely injured plants were heaviest in Surry, Stokes, and Yadkin, fol- 
lowed by that in Forsyth and Guilford Counties. This injury was also 
common but less severe in Person and Granville Counties. Tentative esti- 
mates in the counties suffering the most injury place the living stand at 
only 50 to 70 percent, even after the tobacco fields were replanted from 
three to five times, 
Florida, F. S, Chamberlin (June 17): Considerably more abundant than normal in 
the. tobacco-producing district in Gadsden County, 
Tennessee, G. . M, Bentley (June 1937): Very abundant in the tobacco-growing 
counties, . . ■ 
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L. B, Scott (June 2S): Moderately abundant in western Tennessee, 
The infestation increased, notic§ably about June 20, but there are no in- 
dications at present that the insects will become more than normally abun- 
dant in Montgomery County, 
POTATO FLEA BEETLE. ( Epitrix cucumoris Harr.) 
Massachusetts and Connecticut, A. W, Morrill, Jr. (June l): More beetles than 
ever at this time of year in the Connecticut River Valley. Tobacco plants, 
attacked are riddled before setting is completed. Young potatoes badly 
riddled; very general. Some 20- to 30-acre tobacco fields had to be reset. 
