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lorth Carolina. J. S. Pinckney through C. C. Hill (June 30): A summer survey of 
the central part of the. State showed wheat culms infested to the amount of 5 
per cent. The section surveyed included the following: 
County Average per cent infestation 
Catawba 3 
Chatham . 2 
Davidson 11 
Iredell • 1 
Randolph 6 
Rowan 4" 
State infestation 4.5 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (September 20); While we had three times as many flaxseeds 
present in the 1932 crop as in the crop of 1931, very few flies have yet 
emerged and only a small number of eggs have been laid. The late summer and 
fall have been very dry with no rains to moisten the flaxseeds and hasten 
pupation. We are stressing the safe sowing dates this year. Hessian flies 
are moderately abundant — most abundant since 1920 and more than average. 
Michigan. R. Rutson (September 26): The Hessian fly is moderately abundant. 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (September): The Hessian fly is scarce in Osceola, Crawford,. 
Adams, Madison, Warren, Monroe, and Henry Counties. It is moderately abundant 
in Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, and' Clinton Counties. 
Missouri. I. Haseman (September 27) : Breeding cage records for central and south- 
eastern Missouri indicate that the flies began emerging earlier than usual this 
fall. Parasites in central Missouri are very abundant. One sample shows 56 
per cent flax seeds parasitized, 37 per cent dead of disease apparently, and 
only 7 per cent alive. Some breeding cages are giving us no adults at all. 
Neoraska. M. H. Swenk (August 25 to September 20): In Nebraska there are two 
distinct areas of infestation with the Hessian fly. The eastern area includes 
southeastern Nebraska, west to about Webster, and Howard Counties, end north to 
Nance, Platte, and Douglas Counties, and the infestation is heaviest toward 
the western end of this area. The western area of infestation centers in Phelps 
and Kearney ^ Counties, but takes in parts of the adjoining counties. Weather 
conditions in these two areas have been quite different during the summer, the 
August rainfall in the more eastern area having been almost twice the normal, 
while in the western area it was less than normal. As a result, over a large 
portion of southeastern Nebraska Hessian' fly emergence to date (Septamber 20) 
has been only a little later than normal. This has especially been true in 
some^of the eastern and extreme southeastern counties, where normal or greater 
rainfall w a s^ received during the month of August. In general, the emergence 
•m the counties west to Jefferson and Nance Counties, and thence northward, is 
not very far from normal, though in some of the included counties it may be 
a few days later. But there is a Troup of counties in south-central Nebraska 
wnere rainfall has been deficient and in these' emergence has been delayed. 
According to our present information, in several counties west and south of 
Fillmore County emergence is delayed about as at our Rillmore County field 
observation station, where on September 20 about 25 per cent of the flics of 
the main' fall brood had emerged. In a group of counties still farther south and 
west emergence is still more delayed, about as at our Phelps County field 
