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At the time of writing it is still too early to say what the result 

 of this work will be in Lower Egypt, but in Upper Egypt the reduction 

 in the attack of the pink boll worm during the past three years has 

 been much larger than in Lower Egypt and slightly larger even than 

 in the special campaign zone in the Wadi Tumilat. In view of the 

 facts that the date of pulling up the cotton plants has not been 

 advanced to the same extent as in Lower Egypt, if at all, and that 

 the attack has always been much lighter in Upper Egypt, it is prob- 

 ably only fair to give the treatment of the seed some credit for the 

 improvement.. The actual figures for the percentage of green bolls 

 and the number of worms per 100 plants attacked are given in 

 Table VIII. 



TABLE VIII. UPPER EGYPT (INCLUDING MIDDLE EGYPT). 



It is therefore advisable to continue to enforce the treatment 

 of the seed and in the new law the old regulations should remain 

 essentially unaltered but strengthened in one or two details. Thus 

 all cotton should be ginned before May 1, whereas under the present 

 law unginned cotton can be kept in licensed moth-proof stores from 

 May 1 to August 1. The object of this change is to enable the 

 ginneries to finish ginning and be properly cleaned up from all 

 worm-infested material by May 1. At present ginning is allowed 

 through the summer months and ginneries may thus remain a source 

 of infection to the surrounding districts. Merchants who wish to 

 keep their cotton for speculative purposes must keep it ginned instead 

 of unginned, and this will lessen the deterioration it normally under- 

 goes by being kept. 



