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insect answering completely-to my description in dead patches of 
his meadow, which he had first noticed the preceding fall. From 
Eberle, Effingham county, Mr. Geo. Strong wrote of the ocurrence 
of the meadow maggot in no very great numbers, adding that his 
attention was first attracted to it by the work of the^ hogs m 
pasture and meadow, rooting up patches of the sod. From San 
Jose, Mason county, Mr. Wm. M. Duffy wrote that deadened 
patches such as I described were very numerous, and that on May 
4 he found in these patches a few of the. maggots mentioned. 
From Arlington, in Bureau county, Mr. Louis Zearing wrote April 
25 that this insect was not a new thing in his vicinity, but made 
its first appearance there fifteen years before, its ravages being 
then almost exclusively confined to blue-grass sod. From Milton, 
Pike county, Mr. J. O. Bolin reported, that for two years these 
insects had injured his pastures in small patches, mostly blue- 
grass sod; and Mr. E. H. Robb, of Waynesville, DeWitt county, 
wrote April 27 that he found them in both meadow and pasture 
by the thousand, having first noticed them some six weeks before, 
when breaking up meadow for corn. 
The injuries thus far reported are not of. a gravity or frequency 
to make special remedial measures seem important. Indeed, in 
the Old World, where these insects are very much more destruc¬ 
tive than here, and have been long well known, no remedies 
have been devised which are satisfactory or would apply to our 
agricultural conditions. If our species becomes so destructive as 
to require special attention, it will probably be found best to plow 
up the sod and plant to some other crop. It is worthy of re¬ 
mark, however, that in a case reported from Los Angeles county, 
California, by Dr. Riley, great numbers were destroyed by driving 
a flock of three hundred sheep over their haunts. Close tram¬ 
pling of the earth by the slow passage of a drove of pigs would 
doubtless answer the same purpose, which is that of destroying 
the larvae lving free upon the surface or barely imbedded among 
the roots of the grass. 
