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considerable damage to fall* sown ••heat in pari 
Kansas;, "Ford, Edwards, and Reno Counties. The :ly crcp report 
of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for October 1 s 
the false wireworms are doing considerable damage. Again 
October 15 -they are reported as taking a heavy toll, 
conditions have been very dry, and wheat has been planted in 
dry soil -.-here it lies without germinating. "(October I: Ad L- 
tional reports indicate that the false u Jin is causing 
serious damage in Clark, Corcanche, Kiowa, and Ford Counties, 
COIdT 
STALK BORER ( Papaiperaa nebris nitela G-uen.) 
Indiana J# ' J» Davis (October 1): Additional reports of abundance in 
corn -have been received from Frankfort, Whitestown, i i rth 
Vernon. 
• COBN-FEEEING SYRPHUS 'FLY. ( Mesogramma poll turn Say) 
North Carolina L, Currie (September 5): A 10-acre field quite badly in- 
fested, this is the first instance of such injury that has b 
noted. It is apparently a sporadic outbreak, possibly ^ue to 
the wet season. 
GRASS 
BLACK CUT. .'OHM ( Agrotis ypsilon Rott.) 
Indiana J, J, Davis (October 1): The greasy cutworm abundant 
and apparently killing bent grass on golf greens at ton, 
September 8, 
A SCARABAEID BEETLE (Ochre villosa 3urm. ) 
Pennsylvania J, N, Knull (October 2): About 2 acres o: 1; n Ln of 
the Home infested with the larvae of this Insect, Roots oi 
grass eaten off and gra. (Jednota Horn , dil to ■•). 
AX 
A: : (C • mlnuncti . ) 
Indiana J, J, Davis (October 1)| fori Lrst time 
season at Monticello Septa r 17, of yo. 
alf ere destroy* 
