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amd much more abundant in the area slightly infested last year. Bugs 
are now in the second and third instaxs. The old bugs are dying rapidly, 
Bumicrosoma benef ica is abundant," 
Edward L. Dillon ( Jtme 17) . "Chinch bugs are now found at the base of 
90 per cent of the comstalis examined near wheat or oat fields at 
Waverly. TTheat harvest has begun." 
Nebraslsa 11. H. Swenlc (Jtme 15). "The chinch bug appeared during latter May in 
plentiful numbers in the wheat fields of the counties along the Kansas 
line, from Pawnee County westward, but no serious injury has been re- 
ported." 
Missouri L. A, Haseman. "Mr. Burrill has made a survey of the chinch bug situation 
in this State and reports that ab(aut 65 to 70 per cent of the counties 
in the State are laiown to be infested this summer. The outbreak last 
year covered a section in the east-central part of the State, extending 
east of a semicircular line which started on the north in central Marion 
County, extended westward to the western third of Gallaway County, south- 
ward to the northern third of Iron County, and ended in the central part 
of Perry County. All counties have been heard from with the exception 
of three and only about eleven report no infestation this year." 
Alabama V/. E. Hinds (June 2). "We have no complaint at all of chinch bugs this 
season; in fact, the species has never been commsn enough to be sent in 
here, during the fourteen years that I have been in the State. I think 
it does occur sometimes in northern Alabama but have never heard of it 
in any other section of the State," 
M. C, Tanquary (June 18) , "Reported as being very destructive in Hill 
County," 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga destructor Say) 
Uew York G. E. Smith (June 11) . "Causing some loss this year but apparently not 
very numerous in Orleans County." (June 18) "Mostly in the flaxseed 
stage, considerable injury found in several fields; wheat harvest will 
start about July 4 or two wee3^ earlier than usual." 
North ?ranklin Sherman (May). "Crop reporters in Piedmont (west-central section) 
Carolina have reported this insect as destructive in several counties but ©nly 
a few such reports have come direct to mo. I judge it to be somewhat 
more destructive than usual. 
A. C. Poster (letter to R. J. Haslsll, Plant Disease Survey, June 23). 
In Buncombe County I covered a large area inspecting wheat fields. The 
general opinion of the growers and co\mty agents was that the wheat crop 
this year was the poorest they had seen in years, due partly to unfavor- 
able weather conditions but mostly to damage done by the leaf rust and 
Hessian fly. In Wilkes County also the wlraat crop was very poor, being 
caused by the unfavorable weather, the fly, and the rust. 
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