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injurious here and there as far west as Furnas County, "but the most 
serious injury is practically confined to the block of four counties 
"bordering the Missouri and south of the Platte, Cass, Otoe, Nemaha, 
and Richardson, with the adjacent counties of Johnson and Pawnee. 
In Cass County the infested fields are mostly the early-seeded ones, 
and those show frequently from ,75 per cent to practically 100 per 
cent of the stems affected, causing an estimated average local 
damage to the crop of from 5 T^ r cent to as high as 20 per cent in the 
more eastern townships. Otoe Ccunty is also seriously infested, 
especially the eastern portion, only slightly less so than Cass 
County, and the s; ilso "be said of Nemalia County. In Richardson, 
Pawnee, and Johnson Counties the injury is less intense, being the 
worst in r £j.chiiidaon County. Northern Bufcler County has considerable 
infestation also. The fly larvae were beginning to change into 
"flaxseeds' 1 on Hay 21, which marked the beginning of the end of active 
injury. A considerable number of the very badly injured fields 
WfeEJS? plowed up and planted to corn during the last week in May and 
the first week in June. 
7HEAT J0INT70RM ( I so soma tritici Fitch) 
W. P. Flint (June 19): This worm is present in nearly all fields, 
and in many fields where examinations have been made more than 25 
per cent of the straws are infested. 
0. C. McBride (June 22): In Greene County 12| per cent of the wheat 
in several fields is injured with heads blasted and straw lodging. 
Grubs are nearly full-grown. In Mississippi County there isc^ about 
2 per cent injury and 5 per cent in Phelps in many fields. 
A SaYJFLY (D olerus sp. ) 
ff« A. Ostrander (June Ik): Sawfly larvae are damaging wheat in the 
northern half of Elkhart County, near the Michigan State line. Larvae 
are eating foliage and green wheat heads, doing considerable damage. 
FALSE WIREUCRMS ( Eleodes hisnila bsis. E. 1 etcher i 
and E. car c una r ia 'j 
Claude TJakeland (May 20): These are pests of major importance to 
the wheat raisers on the dry-land farms of eastern Idaho. Usual 
general injury caused in many fields with an occasional field that 
is severely injured and almost entirely or completely killed out. 
SUGAR-CANE BORER (Diatraea saccharalis Fab „ ) 
T. H. Jones ^ Complaints of injury by larvae of the first generation 
have been received from 'west Feliciana, Avoyelles, St. Helena, East 
Baton Rouge, and East Feliciana Parishes-, larvae, pupae, and adult 
from St. Helena Parish. It is interesting to note that the complaint; 
of injury come from a section of the State where the -sugar-cane moth 
stalk-borer has caused severe injury to corn during the past few 
years. Moths from material sent in began issuing in our insectary 
on June U. 
