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The mealybug Orthczla ins ignis Douglas was present on rose cuttings 
received on June 4 from a garden in Santurce. The accompanying letter 
stated that a number of rose "bushes were being rather "badly injured by 
the insects and remedial measures were requested. 
Dr, -G, N. Wolcott reports a high infestation of the pink "boll worm, 
Pectinophora gossypiella Saund, , on the first crop of cotton in one field 
near Aguadilla, often two or three caterpillars being found in one boll or 
ane large caterpillar in a small boll. He states that hard successive 
rains and the pink boll worm have caused fully 50 por cent loss of tho 
crop in this field. Mr, E. F. Rorko, of....the San Juan Ginnery Co., states 
that the field in Camuy which showed 6 per cent, 10 per cent, and 18 per 
cent infested bolls, based on counts of 100 bolls on May 1, May 8, and 
June 6, respectively, increased to 22 per cent and 28 por cent on June 13, 
and 28, respectively. Two other fields at Car.iuy -showed 4 per. cent and 13 
.per cent infested bolls on June 17 and still another field 12 per cent on 
June 28. He further reports that a field at Hatillo in which- the crop was 
almost finished had 31 por cent infested bolls by actual count on June 17. 
The situation is more serious than ever before on the whole North Coast 
since the infestation is higher earlier in the life of the crop. Successive 
rains during, the Spring delayed picking and no cotton was brought until 
June 3. Juan Pastor Rodriguez, General Agricultural Agent for the South 
Coast, states that by' May 15, the date set for completion of the clean-up 
against pink boll worm, only about 5 per cent destruction of the old plants 
had been accomplished but that by June 1- about 50 per cent of the old 
cotton plants in the South Coast had been pulled up and burned end that the 
work was practically .completed by the. end of the month. This does not 
apply, however, to. the towns of Guyana, Patillas, and Maunabo whore the 
crop had been planted later, the last of the cotton crop not being purchased 
from growers until early in June. Mr. Pastor states that by the end of June 
a large percentage of the wild cotton trees (algodon sylvestre) along the 
roadsides in Guyanilla and Yauco had been cut down and burned; that from 
Penuelas to Guanica nearly all along the road and some in the interior 
around; .the fields had been destroyed; around Ponce, however, and along the 
road from Santa Isabel to Guyama, including Salinas, not so large a 
proportion has been destroyed, efforts being concentrated on destruction 
o£ the remnants of the cultivated Sea Island crop. 
Dr. G. N. Wolcott reports the cotton, leaf worm, Alabama or^illacea 
Hubner, very abundant towards the end of June arcuind Isabela.and often 
causing entire defoliation despite efforts of the growers to control the 
outbreak. Almost daily rains washed off the poison soon after it was 
appliod, thus rendering control difficult. The outbreak did not spread 
more than 2 miles south of tho North Coast and a few scattering cater- 
pillars were just beginning to appear in the cotton around Aguadilla at 
the end of tho month. Dr, Wolcott has observed the moths, which were 
attracted to lights about, the dinner table in tho house to feed on the 
juices of dead ripe mangos. He states that this observation will probably 
also apply to moths in the field feeding on fruits still on the trees or 
fallen to the ground, 
E. P. Rorke reports that new infestations started up during June, 
in general in the North Coast section but especially about Hatillo, Canuy, 
and Isabcla, where the cotton plants are large and the crop more concentrated, 
