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The tobacco splitworn is showing up again in tobacco in Gadsden 
County, Fla.. 
In many sections of the Cotton Belt there has been plenty of 
rainfall during June and conditions have been very favorable for the 
rapid increase of the boll weevil. The present prospects are for as 
much damage this year as there was last year. 
The forest tent caterpillar is still present in outbreak numbers 
in the Northern States, from Vermont and Connecticut to Pennsylvania, 
and from North Dakota to Washington. 
THE MOPE IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES 
IN CANADA POP. MAY- JUNE 
In the Prairie Provinces hatching of grasshoppers began the 
first week of May, was well under way by the middle of the month, 
and was practically complete by the first of June. The young grass- 
hoppers caused some crop losses in certain, areas, but their activities 
and development were being retarded by cool weather and timely rains, 
and an extensive poisoning campaign was producing good results. In 
the interior of British Columbia heavy June rains greatly retarded 
insect activity and, although grasshoppers were numerous in some 
areas, they were backward in development. 
Infestations of the pale western cutworm were reported to be 
widespread in Saskatchewan, but up to mid-Juno little damage had been 
done where timely rainfall had brought about crop recovery, and else- 
where losses were relatively light. 
A severe outbreak of the red-backed cutworm developed in the 
Peace River district of .Alberta, from the Grande Prairie and Spirit 
River districts west to near the interprovincial boundary. An 
estimated loss of 20 percent of grain crops had already occurred by 
Juno l6. In other parts of the Peace River areas of Alberta and 
British Columbia the infestation was lighter and more scattered. 
Severe infestations were noted in several districts around Edmonton. 
Serious damage to grain crops by wire worms was reported wide- 
spread in the three Prairie Provinces. In Manitoba ran average of 25 
percent damage on summer fallow wheatfields was recorded in the 
Coultor-Waskada district. In Saskatchewan the damage to wheat seeded 
on fallow was estimated at 20 percent for the Saskatoon to Dafoe area 
