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W. P. Flint (July 18). "Damage has been most severe in the south- 
central part of the State; many entire fields of com have been 
destroyed. 75 per cent of the bugs are now adults. Eggs are 
being deposited for the second generation. Creosote barriers 
have proved very satisfactory. Oats also severely damaged; as 
high as 30 acres in one field being killed by these insects. la 
this section more bugs have been bred in oats than in wheat." 
H. C. Severin (July 18). "This is the first time chinch bugs 
have appeared in injurious numbers during my 12 years experience 
in Dakota, The bugs lire now migrating into the corn; many of 
the bugs are mature." 
M. H. Swenk (July 15). "As was anticipated in my previous reports 
injury by chinch bugs developed in Thayer County during the last 
7 or 8 days in June and the first week in July, when the bugs 
migrated from the wheat into the corn, but even heavier injury 
developed in Jefferson, the next county to the east in the 
vicinity of Erdicott, Powell, and Steele County. Chinch bug 
injury is practically over at the tiir.e of writing this report." 
E. G. Kelly (July 18). "Pew adults scattered throughout most 
corn-fields over the eastern third of State. No damage this 
season; adults migrating to sorghum and sudan grass." 
L. A. Haseman (July 10). "During the month the chinch bug has 
been the most prominent insect in the State; less damage was done 
than was anticipated; due to the spring weather conditions the 
spring brood was late maturing and at wheat-cutting time most of 
the nymphs were yet in the early nymph stages. The young of the 
summer brood are beginning their work on the corn and if dry 
weather continues serious damage may be expected." 
R. W. Harned (July 23) . "Reported a number of times during June. 
Most of the se reports came from counties in the Yazoo-Mississippi 
Delta in the western part of the State. A few of them came from 
the northeast prairie section of the State. Corn is the princi- 
pal crop injured. The chinch bug is not normally a serious pest 
in Mississippi but the long drought this spring made conditions 
favorable for their rapid increase." 
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CORN EARIOmi ( Chi or idea obsoleta Fab.)» 
L. 0. Gratz (July 16). -Abundant in some fields about Eden." 
E. P. Felt (July 23). "Com earworm was found the last of June 
in small numbers just north of Gowanda, in Cattaraugus County, 
and in mic 1 July very serious local injury was reported from 
Albany County . " 
L. Haseman (July 10). "This insect did some damage in the tassels 
of young corn late in June and the second summer brood of larvae 
