Excerpt from The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, Vol. 39: Hessian Fly in Wheat, Control Methods and Safe Dates for Sowing Seed, August, 1918 Many farmers of this state were disappointed in the wheat yield of 1918. The Hessian Fly was one of several causes which contributed to this. The special emphasis placed upon wheat-production in 1917 doubt less resulted in some wheat being sown on land which was not well suited to it, some on land which was not suitably prepared, some sown unseason ably early, and some sown unseasonably late. As evidence on this latter point the author found wheat on one farm representing four distinct dates of sowing, varying from September 30 to October 31, and only a few miles away found another field sown as late as November 30. These cases show a variation of two months in the time of sowing wheat in the same locality. It is also known that certain fungous diseases were a factor in reducing the yield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.