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materials which may be, or are frequently used in the con- 

 struction of fumigation outfits. Besides these, a third 

 article dealing with the life history of the rice weevil in 

 corn has been presented before the American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists, and will shortly appear in the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology. Several articles on 

 economic entomological subjects have been printed in the 

 Southern Farm Gazette, and the Southern Ruralist, besides 

 a large number of newspaper articles in the daily and week- 

 ly press, giving information relative to the boll weevil ad- 

 vance, and advising the people as to the best way to meet 

 the situation. Mr. W. F. Turner has published a paper on 

 the Control of Cucumber and Cabbage Insects, appearing 

 in the Report of the Alabama State Horticultural Society 

 for 1910, issued by the State Department of Agriculture 

 and Industry, Serial No. 36. 



Public Addresses. 



In order to supply the imperative demand for lectures on 

 the cotton boll weevil, it has been necessary to refuse num- 

 erous requests for addresses at farmers' institutes. More 

 than a dozen addresses dealing with the boll w^eevil, many 

 of them illustrated w^ith stereopticon views, have been 

 given in Alabama during the past year, and one at Atlanta, 

 Ga. The expense for these trips has been met by the 

 State Department of Agriculture, or by the society making 

 the request. 



The Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil. 



As had been expected the ^Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil, 

 in its eastward advance, crossed the western boundary 

 line of Alabama, in Mobile County toward the end of 

 August, 1910. The first specimens of the pest to be found 

 in this state were taken at Wilmer, Ala., by the waiter, on 

 Sept. 3d. During the following six weeks the advance of 

 the pest continued until about the middle of October. The 

 line was found to enter the County of Choctaw, slightly 

 south of Meridian, Miss., and extending in a southeasterly 

 direction, including also small parts of Clark and Monroe, 

 and all of Washington, Mobile, and Baldwin Counties 

 within the line of 1910 infestation. Fortunately, in many 

 respects, killing frosts occurring during the closing days of 

 October put an end to the weevil's advance. 



The coming of the boll weevil has awakened an intense 



