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minently in some districts where it had been unobserved before. 
Thus, through all the northern parts of Indiana and Illinois, and 
the contiguous parts of Michigan and Wisconsin, it did much inju¬ 
ry, and in many places occasioned almost a total failure of the 
crops. Near Goshen, la., a person writes, the fly is taking the 
wheat here at a dreadful rate, destroying some pieces entirely ; 
some fields have been plowed up, and corn planted therein. The 
Prairie Farmer states that the wheat crop has suffered severely in 
various sections by the fly. In Will county, Ill., says the Chicago 
Journal , several entire fields of both winter and spring wheat have 
been destroyed by the Hessian fly. In Michigan also, it is reported 
to have made sad havoc, particularly in light sandy soils. From 
different places in this State, we are told as follows : “ In some 
cases the injury was so severe, that the farmers had to plow up their 
fields and sow them over again.” “ There is not more than one- 
fourth of the surplus of 1843, owing to the wet season and the ra¬ 
vages of the fly.” The wheat crop is almost an entire failure. 
The insects took it last fall, and the rust in the spring, and then 
again the insects a second time.” It is also stated that the same 
enemy had made its appearance in great force at the close of the 
season, in the early fall sown wheat. From different parts of Ohio, 
the crop was reported in May and June to be suffering considerably 
from the ravages of the fly. In the vicinity of Masillon, it had ne¬ 
ver been so destructive before, whole fields being entirely destroyed. 
In the neighborhood of Rochester, N. Y., also, the fields suffered 
some, particularly those having a sandy soil, and that were early 
sown. On the west end of Long Island, its ravages were also bad, 
many farmers not having more than half a crop. Both in the east¬ 
ern and western sections of Pennsylvania, the fly lessened the pro¬ 
duce of this year. In Bucks county it was particularly destructive. 
One person states, in the month of June, that where he had expect¬ 
ed to gather 1,200 bushels or more, he could not now hope for 300. 
Though it is noticed on both shores of the State of Maryland, the 
injury done by it here appears to have been but slight. 
In 1845, through those districts of Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, 
where it committed such havoc the last year, it is said by different 
persons to have wholly disapprared. The Prairie Farmer , however, 
states that it was still present, doing more or less injury all over the 
