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and look stunted ; the grain looks coarse, and not at 
all like the rest of the kernels. The land is clean, 
and in good condition ; and the crop, taking a bird’s- 
eye view, looks all that can he desired, hut on close 
examination I should think there are not less than 
one in every thirty ears affected.” 
On August 29tli a sample of Chevalier Barley 
was forwarded to me from a sixty-acre field by Mr. 
J. Temple Johnson, Sutton Court, Sutton-at-Hone, 
Dartford, Kent, with a note that about a quarter of 
the crop was damaged as sample sent. This again 
was from Chlorops- injury; but in this case the plants 
were fairly grown, though showing all stages of 
disease upwards, from the ear being still enclosed to 
being free, with the characteristic black furrows. 
The latest specimens sent me during the season 
were forwarded to me by Mr. W. B. Close (of 17, 
St. Helen’s Place, London) on September 24th, as 
samples of an infestation which had been doing 
much harm in the Barley crops in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Danehill, Sussex, and from which the farmer 
had suffered so severely that Mr. Close promised to 
endeavour to obtain some information about it. 
Summary.— From the above notes it will be seen 
that the attack, so far as reported, did not extend 
further north than the neighbourhood of Alford, 
Lincolnshire, but was scattered over the more 
southerly parts of England, in some cases doing 
considerable damage. 
At Cirencester this was estimated (on the field 
specially examined) as at 20 to 25 per cent., and also 
(by another examiner) on a part sown on May 3rd as 
20 per cent. Near Farnborougli, Kent, one of the 
fields reported was damaged in some parts to the 
extent of nearly half the crop; and near Dartford 
(Kent) about a quarter of the crop was considered to 
be damaged on a sixty-acre field similarly to sample 
described above. In another case about one ear in 
thirty was considered to be infested, and in others 
the ear was so totally aborted that the plants would 
be totally useless, excepting for what small amount 
of fodder they might serve for. 
The quite unusually large proportion of the plants 
which were stunted completely down to the shape 
Stem of Barley at¬ 
tacked by Chlorops, 
showing blackened 
maggot-channel. 
