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West 
Virginia 
Florida 
Massa- 
chusetts 
New York 
West 
Virginia 
Ohio 
W. B. Rumaey (June 6) "Correspondent reports normal outbreak of this 
insect at Lumberport , Harrison County." 
(June 12) "Correspondent reports serious outbreak at Cairo, Ritchie 
County ." 
CORN EARWORl^ (Chl oridea obsoleta Fab . ) 
S. B. Walker (June 1) "More abundant than usual. Two percent of the 
crop has been damaged at Florida City." 
CABBAGE 
CABBAGE MAGGOT ( Hylemyia brassicae Bouche) 
W. F. Thompson (May 15) "Much more abundant than usual in the Boston J 
district, as high as 50 eggs to a plant, retarding all growth, with a " 
few plants lost in best gardens/ Growers experimenting with tarred 
felt disks and nitrate of soda." 
P. J. Parrott (May 28) "Radishes seriously infested. Cabbages begin- 
ning to show injury during the past week at Geneva." 
(June 11 ) "Dry weather and maggots have severely attacked cabbage 
seedlings. There is a marked contrast between treated and untreated 
plats . " 
C. R. Crosby and assistants (May 28) "Exceedingly destructive at Eden. 
Reports from Nassau County indicate that there was a serious loss dur- 
ing April to plants set in the field but the cold rains and cool temp- 
eratures did more for saving the crop than any amount of treatment. 
In a good many places the plants are living on secondary roots v/hich 
have taken the place of the tap root which was destroyed; doing con- _. 
siderable damage in Orleans County." I 
(June 15) "The growers say they have never seen the destruction by the 
cabbage maggot as severe as it is this year. In : v r 1 of the fields 
one-third of the plants are already gone and the maggots are still at 
work. In some spots in these fields the maggots get away with over 
half the plants at Eden." 
(June 18) "Numerous in seed beds in Wayne County. Destructive to early 
plantings in gardens in Orleans County, also numerous in Albany and 
Nassau Counties." 
F. C. Hartzell (June 18) "Not common in Chautauqua County." 
E. C. Sherwood (June 21) "Turnips, cabbage and radishes, about 30 per 
cent infested at V/heeling, Ohio County. Turnips most seriously injur- 
ed, maggot being follov/ed by a soft rot." 
H. A. Gossard (June 23) "The cabbage maggot is the subject of very fre- 
quent inquiry, though early radishes about Wooster were less troubled 
than usual by this insect." 
