by the weevil in the early summer of 1905 is shown by Fig. 3. 

 It will be noticed that the infested territory decreased consid- 

 erably following the long wet winter, the weevils being ap- 

 parently completely exterminated in the eastern portion of the 



ARKANSAS 



FIG. 2 Area (shaded) in Louisiana, infested by the boll weevil in December, 1904. 



territory gained by them in the fall of 1904. It is worthy of 

 note, however, that all of this territory lost by the insects was 

 territory which they did not enter until after about Septem- 

 ber, 10, 1904, and in which, therefore, they did not have time 

 to breed up to considerable numbers before the arrival of frost. 

 In Western Louisiana, where they had an opportunity to breed 

 through the greater part of the season, many survived the win- 

 ter successfully. Even should the winter of 1905-1906 be fully 

 as wet and severe as the one of 1904-1905, the weevils may be 

 expected to survive in considerable numbers in a much larger 

 area than they did last winter. The winters cannot be de- 



