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O0*STAi±TJC- EHP0J3DLCGICAI. ?E: .TUBES IM T£5 riED Sl££FES FCS OCTOBER , 1927 
A flight of the locser a&gratory grasshopper is reported from western 
Kansas and severe damage has already been dona to fall-sown -heat in certain 
localities. . 
The fall crmy-orm is doiiig consider able dar.iagc in central Illinois, 
eastern Ivebrasica, "'.nd Kansas. 
The summer Hessian-fly survey of the Middle Atlantic States shows 
higher infestation than has prevailed for. several years. A general summary 
of the survey appears in this number. Tiles are also reported as abundant 
in south -central Kansas. 
Several ne-" counties in: Pennsylvania-, Ohio, Indiana, and Lachigan 
have "been found infested "by the European corn 'borer in the course of the 
October scouting work. 
The San Jose scale is not reported as unusually abundant from any part 
of the eastern fruit belt, though indications earlier in the season were that 
unusual infestations were to be expected. 
In general , the codling-moth situation of the Eastern United States 
has been favorable; considerable wormy fruit, however, is being found in 
eastern e::port apples. 
The apple and thorn skeietor.iser is reported for the first time from the 
St at e of 1 la ine . 
In the apple -growing section of West Virginia a very unusual outbreak 
of the apple maggot occurred this year. 
In the Georgia peach belt, the peach borer is so serious that an un- 
usually large Quantity of paradiehlorobenzene is being used this year. 
The Mexican bean beetle has been found ore county eart of our last re- 
cord in Hew "fori: State (Steuben County), 4 single beetle hoc been found north 
of Washington, 3., in Montgomery County, Maryland, an infestation in the 
eastern part of Forth Carolina is decidedly more intense than last year. In 
South Caroline the recorded spread is practically one tier of counties farther 
east than according to our last report , .-"tending eastward to a line between 
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