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The tarnished plant bug, whose work in strawberry fields attracted 
especial attention last year, and led to the publication of an elabo¬ 
rate article in my last Eeport, has continued about as before. It$ 
injuries in strawberry fields were, however, decidedly less conspicuous, 
owing to the more favorable character of the season. _ The straw¬ 
berry root worms and the crown borer were seemingly neither 
more nor less abundant than usual. 
