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informed by Mr. D. M. Murphy. Twenty miles north of San Diego 
Mr. H. J. Delamer says that it appeared in his field in September, 1892. 
In the other localities mentioned in Texas, this year was, according 
to all reports, the first of its appearance, but it is very probable that it 
has been present for two years or more in the San Diego and Nueces 
region, without its being noticed. 
The weevil was reported not found or heard of at Moore, Del Eio, the 
San Antonio region (including Devine, Lightall, and Medina), and the 
region to the north and east of San Antonio. 
At Flower Bluff, 12 miles south of Corpus Christi, on the coast, it 
was reported that the weevil did not occur. 
METHOD OF ITS IMPORTATION. 
Cotton groivn close to the Bio Grande on both sides. — In the lower Rio 
Grande region there are localities where cotton is grown on both sides 
of the river. This is the case at Matamoras and Brownsville. It is 
self-evident, therefore, that the weevil came across here, perhaps also at 
other places further up the river, but not at either Laredo or Eagle Pass, 
as tbe insect does not occur there, and no cotton is raised at either place 
on the American side. Granting, therefore, that it got across from 
Mexico to the United States in the Brownsville region, we will proceed 
to consider how it spread to the San Diego and Nueces region, 150 to 
250 miles north of there, it being known that between these regions 
there is a stretch of 60 miles or more where little or no cotton is raised. 
Not shipped in ginned seed. — This subject was carefully gone into, 
because I was informed that in 1893 much ginned seed had been 
shipped from C. P. Diaz, some of which might have come from the 
infested Monclova region, to stock feeders in Eagle Pass and to the 
Houston oil mills. Much search was made among freshly-ginned seed 
in San Juan Allende, a badly infested district, for signs of this weevil, 
and the only thing found was a portion of a dead weevil, which had 
been broken in going through the gin. The seeds are often found 
eaten out inside, leaving only the shell inclosing the pupa, or trans- 
formed weevil, but in going through the gin the thin shell is broken 
and the weevil killed. It is thus not at all likely that the weevil can 
be spread in ginned seed. 
Spread north by shipments of cotton in the seed. — There is no cotton gin 
in the Brownsville region, unless it has been very recently put up.* 
Therefore cotton in years past had to be shipped in the seed to one of 
four places for ginning — New Orleans, Galveston (to these by steamer), 
San Diego, or Alice (to these overland by ox carts). f 
* Mr. Townsend writes from Brownsville under date of February 2, that this state- 
ment was based upon misinformation. It seems that there is a gin at Brownsville. 
Nevertheless cotton has been shipped in* seed to Galveston and may have been 
shipped in small quantities to Alice. — L. O. H. 
t That which is shipped by steamer now goes to New Orleans preferably, because 
a better price can be gotten there for the lint cotton, and the freight rate from 
Galveston to New Orleans is avoided. — C. H. T. T. 
