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Alfelfa aphid laid eggs cee ree eee Ts ene, also 
revorts that after a 2 months! search for the ev:s and the sexual 
eerms Of Ls pisi, in which much alfalfa from the rearing cages and 
the fielcs was inspected and Hany a phids teken in the sweepin s and 
from the stock caves were examined almost daily, eggs were first 
found in these ca,7es on October 27 aad in the ficlds on Novewber 4. 
in the fields they were found on the upper and uncer sides of the 
Heaves of the fourth-croy shoots. Wingless oviparsus forms were first 
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Seen on November G. Throughout naar yoth the egseys and the egg- 
laying forms were found in small nunbers on the cifulfe in the insec- 
tary. It is interesting to note thet ecsys were nut laid until «after 
Pepeated and heavy frusts. Their vecurrence is important in indicat- 
ing hcw the’ a@ hids survive the severe: winters in this luculity (Fal- 
lon, Nev.). 
Siiy, Uteh, revorts thet a careful survey uf: the alf: 1fe 
(Hypera postice Gyll.) situation indicates that damuye to 
Sccur ‘next year in Salt Lake and Yevier Countics, Utch, and in Church- 
git County, Nev. The other principal alfalfa-prowinz districts of 
these States, together with esagtern and western Oreyon, eastern and 
western Ic een, end the western Slope ef Coloruas:, sre angarently not 
threatened. 
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Control of cutworms ovtained in Louisians.--s Louisiana suser 
planter netified T. 4. H<liow a New Orleans, Lu., about the midale 
of November that cutworms were stroying his alfalfa. Bran wash 
Was advised, ana the phanter os this with sreat success. iW. 
Haley, New Orleans, visited the plantation and cellected specimens 
of the cutworns. hede have been identified by snag i 0! 
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that sifted barasse was GONG. Jay AS good a5 braun ds an i ngredicnt Of 
the mash. Bagesse is, of course, the ground sugarcane uftcr the 
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juice is extracted The planter vas sifting some « i 
make stock fwad. ic sugercane districts, bagasse is much cheaper 
than bran. 
Seed treaysents of rice promise to rajel atwons oF susurcene 
beetle.--l. ri Douglas and J. W. Ingram, Oruwley and Houma, li., re- 
‘port that the sugarcane beetle (Huethowla rugiceos bec.) has been 
known to destroy over 50 percent uf the young rice plants aurin, the 
month of div growth bo bean rernination and ee first goplication of 
irrigation water. In an effort tu fini some contrui, seed rice wa 
treated with verivus rep elient matcrials. The rice in each treatment 
was srown under a separate field cage und » uniform number of beetles 
was placeca in each cage. Nene of the i ee injured germination. 
The yields from the plots are as follows: 
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