farriers awaited the announced date of safe seeding, and as a result 
these counties that contained so much heavy infestation by the fly 
in the spring showed comparatively little of it in the fall. In 
other counties, unorganized, where the Hessian fly had not done 
enough injury in the spring of 1923 to indicate that organized 
effort to secure a general delay until the date of safe seeding, 
would be successful, the present, infestation is more severe than 
it was a year ago. The organized campaign in Furnas County was 
not successful, for a comparatively small percentage of the farm- 
ers awaited the date of safe seeding, and as a result the infesta- 
tion there is much increased at this time as compared to a year 
ago, except in the case of the small percentage of fanners who 
actually awaited the safe date oefore seeding their wheat. This 
area of heavy infestation in Furnas County extends even more heav- 
ily west into Redwillow County and east into Harlan County, thence 
less heavily, but still seriously, into Phelps and Gosper Counties 
and the southern part of Dawson County- .Another center of serious 
infestation is in Jefferson, County and the southern part of Gage 
County, and this extends northward into Saline and Fillmore Coun- 
ties* Other counties from which reports of serious ly injured 
fields have been received are v /ebster, 3utler, Dodge, and Sarpy 
Counties. In brief, the geography of the Hessian fly infestation 
at this time is different from that of a year ago chiefly in that 
the counties that were worst infested a year ago are now compara- 
tively lightly infested, while the present heavy infestation, ex- 
cept in Furnas County, is in counties that were not heavily enough 
infested a year ago to secure general interest in a program, of late 
seeding. 
CHINCH BUG (Bl issus 1 eu copterus Say) 
Ohio 
H. A. G os sard (March 22): There are very few chinch bugs to be 
found in the State and we are not expecting much trouble frcm them 
Illinois 
Missouri 
W« P. Flint: No very extended examination of chinch bug hibernat- 
ing quarters has oeen made up to this time* Those made thus far 
indicate about the average winter mortality in the central Illinois 
counties with a ratner high mortality, in seme cases as high as 50 
per cent, in the northern counties. These counties are just becom- 
ing infested with the ougs. Present indications are that there 
are enough chinch bugs in hibernation to cause moderate to heavy 
damage to susceptible crops throughout the central and north-central 
counties of Illinois during the coming season- A more careful 
chinch bug survey will be conducted during the next two months* 
L. Haseman (March 12): In spite of severe winter on March 7 
examination of clump and blue-grass harbors in sheltered places 
show live ougs acundant. They were observed in short and scatter- 
ed grass shelters- Protection seemed poor, though, on south slope: 
This leads me to believe that we will have chinch bug trouble again 
this summer. 
