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COTTOIT I IT SECTS 
TOLL VTEEYIL ( ■Anthonor.ras ".; randis Z 3 oh.) 
South Co^rolina, Y, P, Lonciy, ct al, (June l 4 ): Total of 20,800 plants 
oxrjninGd in Ploroncc Courntp during the la,st ^v-cok, and I96 weevils 
found, or 1 weevil to IO6 ^plants, as conpo.rod v/ith 1 weevil to 97 ^ 
plants in 1940 , (June 21 ); Square-infestation counts made in sev- 
eral fields near weods, infestation averar^ing 22,8 percent, 
Georgia, T, L, Tissoll (June 25 )j One weevil fo^ond on punctured square 
in Spalding Cotmty on J\ine 18 , Grovdng point of plants reported as 
killed. Square counts v;ere nade on four fo.rns in Sunter rn.d liacon 
Counties, southv/estern Georgia, on June 20, and fron 26 to 29 percent 
of squares on advanced cotton vjoro found to he punctured, Lanage well 
distributed in three fields in the open ow.t in the fourth, which o.d- 
joined a \TOods, the v.roevils were concentrated on the side next to the 
woods, 90 percent of the squares being infested. On June 24 it was 
found that vroovils ho.d bocone nuncrous in Spalding County, since rains 
ho,d begun 10 days previously. Pound in four fields, ,nost of then near 
woods, 
P, Mo Giixicr, et al, (Juno l 4 ): infestokions in fields in the area, 
of Tift, Berrien, Lowndes, and Echols Comities show a rcnarkably high 
percentage for this early in the sca-son, ^Jhcrea.s nany fields a.re 
uninfested or lightly infested, nany ha.ve square infestations of fron 
6 to 12 percent, (June 2l): Movenent out of hibernation in Tift and 
Berrien Counties is ampmcntl” about couplet o, but daiiage has in- 
creased very little during the la,st v/ook. Infestations r,vcra.ge below 
10 percent, except in the wore heavily infested fields, Poported a-s 
increasing in northern section, Pirst of first seasonal brood adults 
reported fron Echols County, 
Plorida„, C, S, P.udo, et al, (J-u.no 2l)i Infestation renains light in most 
sections, despite the fact that, encrgcncc fron hibernation cages is 
heavy and late, hee-vd-ls reported as a.bmidant in fields of north- 
western Plorida, 
Alafoana, J. M. Robinson (June 23)1 Reported on June 18 fron noderatoly to 
viDry active on cotton at Prattville, Autauga Comitj^, central Alabana, 
Mississippi, C, Lyle (Jime 16): Hoa.vy squa.ro infestations and largo pop- 
ulations per acre reported during the last v/ook, T’Jeovils found on 64 
of 101 farns visited in 35 co-unties, averaging I87 per ncro, an in- 
crease fron l 40 per acre the previous week, end 96 2 wrecks ago. On 
this dato in 1940 011I3?- 20 percent of the farns v/ore infested, weevils 
averaging about 30 aero. Infestations arc beginning to appear oven 
in the nost northern counties, including Prentiss, Tipp)ah, and Union; 
SGVcre.l hea-vp?- infcsta.tions rcp>ortcd fro-n the Pclta co-unties, 
Louisiana, R. C. Ge.ines, et al, (June 2l); Punctured squares n-unorous in 
nost fields in Madison Parish, in which plots vrere located. 
