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p in some localities. The following year they made havoc 
e winter wheat in Washington county, Illinois, in September, 
ug the plants when they were two or three inches high; and 
nail damage was also done to corn. In Mr. Riley’s report 
L and 1 82, the first and second generations are said to lay 
ggs on the growing stalks of rice. The worms, hatching, 
he plants badly, and when in great numbers eat them to the 
Grass, cabbage, strawberries, and beans were among the 
injured in Georgia during this year by a later brood. 
imtral Illinois, this fall, the injuries were confined, as far as 
ervation extended, to old oats ground, with the exception of 
or two formerly in wheat, on which volunteer grain had 
up in extraordinary quantity. We could hear of no damage 
in the fields of oats early in the season on ground after- 
Visited by the grass worm when cropped in wheat. In very 
:ases the loss was total, and many thousand acres of winter 
vere entirely killed by the worms in the area infested this 
Most of the fields were plowed and resown, but occasionally 
s left. The destruction of a whole field was rarely complete, 
e area being usually in bands and patches, in the center of 
tljhe plants were eaten to the ground, while around the mar- 
e damage was less severe. Where the wheat was early sown 
d reached a height of five or six inches, stubs of an inch or 
ere left by the worms, and from these the plant partly revived. 
aumber of worms in a field, as indicated by the pupge dis- 
le in the ground, was about six to ten to a square foot; 
h some farmers asserted that a handful could have been 
d, earlier, in their fields by a single sweep of the hand. 
l Mr. Harris, of Cuba, I have received the following detailed 
ft of the method and amount of the injury done in a field 
His observation: 
