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inclusive. Weevils found 1 week earlier this year. (June 17): 
On a treated check plot only a 10-percent infestation found. 
(June 24): Weevils found on 6 farms in Washington County this 
week totaled 120 , as compared with 124 last week; 218 in 1938; 
39 in 1937 ; and 2 in 1936 . 
R. L. McGarr, et al. (June 3): Inspection of 1,400 cotton 
plants in 7 fields in Oktibbeha County this week showed 1.9 
weevils per 100 plants, as compared with 2.5 in 1938. (June 17): 
In Oktibbeha and Lowndes Counties average number of weevils per 
100 plants from 6,400 cotton plants inspected in 26 fields this 
week was 1 . 3 , as compared with 1.1 at this time last year. 
(June 24): During the week 3,200 squares examined in 12 fields 
in Oktibbeha County showed an average infestation of 24.5 percent, 
as compared with 21.6 percent at this time last year. Infestation 
in different fields ranged from 10 to 36*7 percent. 
Louisiana. R. C. Gaines and assistants (June 3 ) : Examinations to 
determine population in cotton field's at Tallulah, Madison Parish, 
for the period May yi to June 6 showed 273 weevils on 36,000 
plants, as compared with 306 weevils on 50,000 plants in 1938. 
(June 17): Quite a few squares punctured in some fields of older 
cotton in Madison Parish. (June 24): In 30,200 squares examined 
in Madison Parish during the week, 1,536 punctured squares were 
found, an average of 5*1 percent. Records made on fields most 
likely to be heavily infested. Square infestation in these fields 
ranged from 0.5 to 18.7 percent. No control used in any of these 
fields. In 34 fields 24 weevils taken in 5,800 sweeps of the net. 
Initial population at Tallulah slightly higher in 1939 than in 1938. 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (June 20): Increasing and now causing damage in 
half of the 2o fields examined in Austin, Colorado, Fayette, 
Waller, and Wharton Counties, southeastern Texas, and in 18 of 32 
fields examined in Sastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Milan, and 
Williamson Counties, south-central Texas. 
R. W. Moreland (June 10) : Total number of weevils removed 
from hibernation cages in Brazos County amounts to 650 , or 
2.6 percent. 
C. R. Parencia and S. E. Jones (June J>): A few found in 
Calhoun County, a few squares in older cotton being punctured. 
(June 24) : Generally scarce in Calhoun County but doing con- 
siderable damage in some fields. Control measures used by sever, al 
growers this week. Infestation on cooperative variety tests 
on June 20 averaged 2.6 percent of the squares punctured. 
K. P. Ewing and W. S. McGregor (June 3 ): In McLennan County 
21 weevils wore found on 3,700 cotton plants in 22 fields, 
located both in the river bottom and in the open-prairie section. 
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