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n       grass blades. The total precipitation for May finally proved a   ‘
,i_i     very small fraction above the average for the month in Bluegrass [
·   li   ‘ Kentucky, and improved the grass so much that stockmen had in  
r     *`-   f , June more pasture, they told me, than was needed. The rains l
Y     _ came however, too late to hel the yield of seeds and one of V r
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  `     the smallest cro sf roduced in recent ears was harvested in
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  r.i' L 2    The failure of the seeds was not entirely due to the dry —
    weather of early spring. An inspection of the pastures about
  1 n , Paris in April revealed the presence of two puneturing insects I
    T in large numbers, together with others not so common. The  
  l plant bug here treated was one of the very common ones. Of l
  2 the worst two it was the more uniformly scattered in the pas-  
l‘}*_[Q?*r~€-er` I. tures and continued to increase in numbers until about har- i
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  g . vest time, when the second insect (an aphid dealt with farther  
 it    on) had disappeared. The injuries of the plant bugs began on ;
€”·_;;_ .`·"     T the blades while the bugs were very young and were of greater ‘
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lg. ···_       consequence than they would otherwise have been because of the
  ,<‘L     A weakened condition of the plants resulting from the prevailing
  I.   dryness. The injury to the seed crop is especially severe be-
    , cause of the disposition of this species to resort finally to the `
  '·iQi§i·f;€i   panicles and feed almost wholly on the immature seeds, at times ‘
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  F ~ gathering in such numbers as to give them a dark hue, readily
    ; perceived some distance away. Even when not thus noticeable, `
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i¤ij*€}?F*Zi{i t scores could be swept from the ass with a cloth net at any
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 :3 g ~ time during May and early June. When brought indoors and
    g confined on bluegrass it continued the injuries, always punctur- _
  Z ing and sucking the sap from the young seeds. The effect of its
      work could be recognized after a time b the fact that the in- y
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    jured panicles remained erect, when ordinarily toward the last
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  ; they are disposed to droop as a result of the lengthening of the
  ` branches and the increasing weight of the seeds. Seeds actually ‘
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  harvested were not, however, as inferior in quality as was ex-
  pected. A sample taken by the writer from a curing yard at
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