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sures were applied at & few ranches this past summer and severe loss was averted, 
4 2 _¢he Hassayampa Valley 4s comparatively small in extent, a grasshopper exter- 
ation campaign, with all the farmers cooperating, would undoubtedly ‘prove 4 
there has been quite a change in the temperature at 
forty-six degrees this morning, the Lowest mini- 
windy. Under these conditions, 
while Stactocephale festina 
activity being noted in the 
, During the past week, 
npe, the thermograph registering 
nso far. Th days have been fair but generally 
his maidis has been on the increase on milo maize 
its seem to have started hiternsting, only © slight 
Addie of the day. 
On" October first, twenty-eight acres of alfalfa were treated with poisoned 
ined from Feltia anneza. This was 
an mash where severe injury had been gusta 
at the Laboratory of damage from the recent cutworm 
ne last report received 
No second crop of alfalfa seed was grown at Buckeye this year because of the 
poor yield from the first crop. Bruchophagus funebris contributed extensively 
At the nearby town of Liberty, 
to the cause of this decrease. where five or siz 
ranc allowed the seed to mature and thrashed it, the resulting yield was dis- 
couras ingly small. 
L. J. 
Hogg. 
Scientific Assistant 
(Acting) In Charge. 

