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CORN. 
Wheat-sowing being late that we owe being preserved from the portion of the 
attach to the Wheat as a young plant, which, I am informed by Prof. Riley, 
Entomologist to the United States, is one great part of the damage in that 
country. 
It is bad enough to have attach bred out of the previous year's 11 flax¬ 
seeds ” to the growing Wheat in summer, but, if we are spared the other half 
by late sowing in autumn, it should be urgently brought under notice of all 
concerned that they should scrupulously hold to this means of prevention, 
which can be carried out usually in regular course. 
Many kinds of measures which possibly may be of use in lessening 
effects of attack of Hessian Fly require no comment in a Report of 
the past season’s work, as no notes have been sent of anybody having 
tried them; but sound and trustworthy reports from practical agri¬ 
culturists have shown that the amount of mischief caused by the 
pest is influenced by the state of the crop. It stands to reason, where 
loss is caused by straw elbowing down, that, if the straw is so 
strengthened by cultivation, or of such a firm strong nature that it 
does not give way under a moderate amount of injury, we must 
benefit. 
From the comparatively small amount of damage done to our 
Wheats there seems reason to hope that, either from our climate or 
soil or the kinds of Wheat generally grown, this crop may not suffer 
as it does in other infested countries; and in the coming season the 
point of the kinds and condition of the Wheat and Barley crops 
which may best resist attack will be one of the points which it will be 
desirable to notice. 
Amongst various places where supposed presence of Hessian Fly 
proved on investigation to be that of some other corn-pest, it may be 
well to mention that which was reported to be so severe on land at 
High Legh, Cheshire, that in the words of one published description 
the crop might have been carried away “in a wheelbarrow.” 
This being a matter of great interest, the field was examined by 
Mr. B. Kendrick, of Warrington, Hon. Curator for Entomology of the 
Warrington Museum, who favoured me with full details and specimens 
accompanying, by which it appeared the attack was not of Hessian Fly, 
but of the Chlorops teeniopus, the small fly of which the attack was so 
often taken for that of Hessian Fly during the past summer. 
From the two figures now given for examination side by side it will 
be seen that these attacks (when once their appearance is known) may 
be very easily distinguished from each other. 
Straw attacked by Hessian Fly maggots elbows sharply down (as 
we all know) above the attacked part, commonly above the second joint. 
The Hessian Fly maggot does not feed in the ear, nor does it feed 
along the outside of the upper part of the stem. This is what the 
Chlorops, or “Ribbon-footed Corn-fly,” does. 
