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R. Hut son (May 21): Several species of climbing cutworms, 
chiefly Rhynchagrotis alternata Grote, are numerous on fruit 
trees generally in the western half of the State. 
J. A. Munro (May 23): Several reports of cutworm injury have 
been received from Dunn and other western counties. So far the 
worms have not caused any widespread injury, but the prospects 
are that they will prove very destructive. 
H. C. Severin (May 20): The western army cutworm ( Chorizagrotis 
auxiliari s G-rote) is very abundant in central and western South 
Dakota and has taken entire fields of small grain. It has also 
destroyed numerous gardens and fields of potatoes. 
A. G. Ruggles and assistants (May): Although cutworms are quite 
generally reported, they are not unusually abundant over any 
considerable part of the State, (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
C. N, Ainslie (May 26): There is much complaint throughout 
northwestern Iowa of injury to gardens by cutworms that appear 
to be unusually numerous this spring. 
H. B. Hungerford (May 23): Cutworms are very abundant. 
A. F, "Satterthwait (May 9): There seem to be many cutworms 
in my garden at Webster Groves. Nearly all appear to be ?eltia 
gladiaria Morr. 
L. Haseman (May 21): I have received only a few complaints on 
cutworms but they are still at work, May 20. 
J. M-. Robinson (May 20): Cutworms are very abundant at Ozark, 
affecting several thousand acres of field crops. 
C. Lyle and assistants (May): Cutworms are not unusually 
abundant over the greater part of the State this spring. Reports 
of some damage to newly set tomatoes have been received from 
Lamar, Alcorn, and Lee Counties. (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
G. M. List (May 24): The army cutworm is moderately abundant 
in a number of sections in the Skate. In some fields it is doing 
damage to alfalfa and moving out into beet fields and other 
cultivated crops. 
G. P. Knowlton (April 26): Cutworms are seriously damaging 
several hundred acres of alfalfa in Delta, Oasis, Woodrow, Oak 
City, and Hinckley sections of Milford County. Approximately 
one hundred acres of dr^-farm wheat are reported as being 
seriously damaged at Oak City. Cutworms are damaging alfalfa 
in the West Mountain district of Utah County, and garden crops 
