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G E IT E.R A L FEEDERS 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia japonic a ' Newm.' ) 
Connecticut. W. E. Britton (August 23): This pest' is gradually Spreading and 
will soon be found throughout- the State. Reported at Bridgeport attaching 
rose, grape, and many trees, ■ shrubs, and plant's. 
Pennsylvania. L. B. Smith (August 26): The Japanese beetle- is causing- heavy 
damage in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware,' and Chester Counties; 
confined to suburban Philadelphia. 
New Jersey. R. C. Burdette (July 25 and 2S): Japanese beetles are causing con- 
siderable damage to asparagus in the Woodstown-Swedesboro section. 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
Maryland. Washington Times (August 8): A number of young apple trees stripped - 
of foliage and' some damage to bearing trees' in an orchard near Frederick 
Junction. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (August 2 and 5); The bird grasshopper, Schistocerca 
americana Drury, had done considerable feeding on the foliage of peach trees 
during the first week in August. The damage was confined to those orchards 
near sodded fields. Poison bran was used as a control. (Peach County) 
Indiana. H. 0. Deay (August '26); local outbreaks occurred in southern part of 
the State and at Culver in the northern part during the first part of the 
month. Millions of Melanoplus diff erentialis Thos. had moved into orchards 
and corn fields at Vincennes, July 30, and load damaged one year old apple 
trees seriously ~by August 6. Very serious in alfalfa at Culver, August 3. 
In Vanderburg County, which is in the extreme southern part of the State, one 
correspondent estimated that 90 per cent injury had been done to corn. How- 
ever, most of the grasshoppers had been killed by a fungus disease by the 
middle of the month. 
Michigan. R. H. Pettit (August 22): Grasshoppers are very bad in the upper 
■ peninsula, and they are bad in the upper one- third of the lower peninsula., 
Wisconsin. E. 1. Chambers (August 22): The heavy rains have tended to reduce the 
numbers of grasshoppers and many of them have been killed "oy parasites and 
disease. 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles and assistants (August): Grasshoppers were still, very 
abundant during August over most of the infested territory, although they were 
decreasing very rapidly where poisoning was carried on. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
North Dakota. F. D. Butcher (August 5): With the small grains ripening and being 
harvested, the hoppers are concentrating on flax, 'late oats, alfalfa and corn. 
A lot of corn is being damaged by having the silks cut before the grain has 
been fertilized. 
A. D. Collette (August 13): Most damage from grasshoppers done in sandy ridge? 
in southeastern and eastern parts of Steele County. Very little damage done 
in north and northeastern part of county.' Damage spotted, in some places 100 
per cent. Some crops, as flax and sweet clover seed, arc a total loss. 
