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where the rainfall approaches 20 inches or exceeds 15 inches. 
However, v/inter wheat is the principal crop over mo at of this 
region. I will endeavor to get a line on the area covered by 
this outbreak when I have cleared up the routine entailed "by 
the beginning of the fiscal year. The outbreak appears to have 
been due to exceptionally favorable weather conditions. There 
were early rains last fall which brought out a large amount of 
volunteer wheat, then the backward rainy spring has been fav- 
orable to repeoted broods this spring. Seeding was interrupted 
by weather conditions and the condition of the soil so that 
there is a great variety in the stage of the wheat. Our obser- 
vations indicate that the main source of tie infestation was 
the volunteer wheat as there appears to be a direct relataion 
between the amount of infestation 3i«i the tamo untldf volunteer 
wheat in the fields. Octs and barley were infested to quite an 
extent in places; timothy \?as also occasionally infested. The 
infestation on winter wheat is light and only occasional typi- 
cal white heads are seen." 
Kew York 
Ohio 
WHEAT MIDGE ( Contarinia tritici larby) 
L. C. 5) ler (June 21) . -'Observed in two fields in Genesee County. 
H. A. Gossard. "Wheat midge was quite numerous over the southern 
and southwestern counties; it was not plentiful in the northern 
counties." 
Indiana 
J. J. Davis (July 15). "The wheat midge has been conspicuously 
present in many sections in Indiana, particularly in central 
Indiana. M 
Washington 
Nebraska 
Minnesota 
M. M. Reeher (July 15). "Many adults out in large numbers and ovi- 
positing on spring wheat. Have had many showers and few warm 
days," 
WSVSm 7HE/T STEM MAGGPTt ( Hylemyia cerealis Gillette) 
M. H. S.;enk (July 15). "In Kimball and Morrill Counties there 
occurred injury in sjme fields caused by some insect working in the 
wheat straws just below the third or fourth joint from the head, 
causing a discoloration of the inner wall of the straw and a 
weakening of it at this point. It is believed, but not proved, 
that this was due to a second brood of the western wheat stem 
n^ggot, as the injury occurred in much the same localities as 
were infested by the first brood of that pest last April." 
WE3TERI7 Jlffiff CUTWORM ( 3v;-:oc auxiliaris Grote) 
A, G. Haggles (July 12). :r Reports have been received from a 
great many parts of the State that there is an extreme abundance 
of the noctuid army cutworm. T'e sdult moths were sent in as 
early as M:.y 27," 
