Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1920 — HESSIAN FLY DOING DAMAGE [ARTICLE]

HESSIAN FLY DOING DAMAGE

The Hessian fly is making great headway in some of the wheat fields in this and surrounding communities. Ed Long of Mt. Ayr, a brother of A. F. Long of this city, reports that the fly has completely destroyed thirty acres of wheat for him. This spring the prospects of a good crop of wheat were the best but on Monday morning he started to plow the field and plant it to corn and trust to a late fall for a crop. A large field directly across the road belonging to Mr. Miller, from this one destroyed by the fly is apparently not touched.