Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1915 — W. C. Babcock Found Little Hessian Fly Indication. [ARTICLE]

W. C. Babcock Found Little Hessian Fly Indication.

Reports from some parts of the state that the Hessian fly was causing much damage to the wheat caused W. C. Babcock, of the firm of Babcock & Hopkins, to make an investigation Friday and he is convinced that there is little cause for worry here. He went to the Daugherty farm, which is occupied by William Garland, and where there was considerable evidence of the fly last fall. He cut down some fifty stalks and opened each at the joint where the little worm that develops into the fly is deposited. He found the worms in only two stalks. Two worms were in one stalk and one in the other. These little worms get busy as soon as they hatch and they finally get a hole gnawed through the stem and it dries and beraks off at that point and there is no wheat on that stem. They do not do much damage as flies after they leave the stalk, just buzz about and get ready for the fall work of depositing tehir eggs on the new sown wheat. In southern Indiana there was a report of considerable damage..