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 · most favorable to the beetles during the summer of 1904, and left ‘ I
  them a good hibernating place_ during the winter of 1904-05. . — »'
_   Sincemy return to Lexington, I have looked over notes made * · i
T  since 1889 on Kentucky insects, and find that the beetle has been ‘ . ` . lj
  collected more_ than once on wheat and oats stubble, and that it has V y-II
been observed on the following cultivated plants not mentioned  
V  above: Bluegrass, white clover, red clover, crimson clover, alfalfa, _ V i¥  
  black mcdick (Meclicago lupulina) , hemp, English bluegrass, millet,  
  and sugar beets. In 1899 a letter was received from Livingston  
  County stating that an experimental plot of sugar beets planted for é·1V,,,
  the Station was a complete failure, because these beetles, specimens ,  
  of which were sent to the Station, ate up the plants when about one  
IQ  inch high. Under date May_ 31, 1904, the superintendent of a C3.I1-  
  ning company at Kingsville, Lincoln County, wrote me, stating that · `  
  the beetles were destroying their plantings of tomato plants.  
 e The record of the insect is a bad one, and its wide range of '  
  ` food plants makes it a particularly difficult one to deal with. Yet  
 ‘j it appears that its weed-loving habits and its disposition to multiply  
 V in stubble fields and attack crops sown there subsequently, offers a  
I   way out of the trouble it causes. Clover sown o_n clean land at Hop· V  
V-  kinsville appeared not to have been attacked at all and presented a  
  fine appearance at the time of my visit. If stubble land is to be sown  V,
  in clover, it should be plowed in the early fall to destroy the weeds  
  and compel the beetles Vto leave. Planting after corn, tobacco, or  
 .' other cultivated crops, should avoid the difficulty completely.  
  ' At any rate the experience with these plantings solves one of  
  the puzzles connected with growing clover in southern and western  
-‘  Kentucky. The beetle concerned in the mischief at Hopkinsville is I ` 
  just a.bout an eighth of an inch long and less than half this in i 
- j  width. It is brown in general color, with a rather broad white stripe tl` 
,   on each side of _the back. It is red-headed, though this part of the  
_=  body is so small that the fact is only evident when the beetle is  
V  t under a magnifier. A It is a, member of the great. vegetable-feeding ·  
_   family, Chrysomelidae, including in its membership such well-  
  known pests as the Colorado potato beetle and striped cucumber  
 , beetle.  
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