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Missouri 
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Louisiana 
Mexico 
North 
Correction 
Cifey Lyle (July 21): The most "spotted" condition of "boll weevil 
infestation I have ever seen at this time of year, is the 
statement of R B W, Harned, Entomologist of the State Plant Board, 
after receiving reports from 196 farms in 25 Mississippi counties 
during the past week. Weevils are apparently most numerous through 
the central pant of the State and in certain localities of the 
Delta, though many farms in these sections still report no in- 
.fEstation. In the southwestern corner of the State, as well as in 
the extreme northern counties, few weevils have "been found, and 
there is apparently no immediate necessity for poisoning on most 
farms in these two sections. 
Im Haseman (July 2k) : No reports as yet have been received of the 
actual work of the boll weevil in any of the cotton sections of the 
State, 
Dwight Isely (July 15; i Sell weevil infestation this year has been 
confined to restricted areas thus far. Severe damage has occurred 
in only a few places, From present prospect s 8 the boll weevil 
injury during the present year should be the lightest which has 
occurred in Arkansas since- the insect has been generally distri- 
buted over the State* 
W» E» Hinds (July 22) j Boll weevil multiplication is occurring 
very rapidly at this time and reaching complete infestation in 
many f ields* There has been practically no natural control in the 
central and southern part of the State, but the drought has 
continued this season,, also, in northern and western Louisiana. 
A BOLL WEEVIL (var. near A nthonomus g ra nd is thurberiae Pierce) 
A. W# Morrill (July 23): In the Yaqui Valley intensive control 
measures, including fumigation of cotton seed, dusting volunteer 
cotton plants with calcium arsenate, .and hand picking of squares 
from and under infested volunteer plants, has reduced weevils 
so that a total of 15 hours 1 examination of volunteer and seedling 
cotton July l6 to 18 resulted in finding no trace of the insects. 
Last year weevil damage amounted to not less than a third hale 
per 'acre. This season it will apparently not he appreciate '.in..-, 
the Yaqui Valley. 
THRIPS (Thysanoptera) 
Po Sherman (June 30) • Several sendlings of stunted cotton plants, 
with crimped leaves, have been received, In two cases a yellowish 
thrips was found but we are not convinced that it was a primary 
factor. Dr. Wolf (Pathologist) says the plant resembled the 
"Crazy Cotton" condition described a year or so ago "by Dr. Co Ok. 
In Volume 5, No. k t page 199, the salikroarsh caterpillar ( Bsticmene 
acraea Drury) credited to R. W. Harned, should be Apantesis 
oithona Stkr. 
