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The paradicjfeloro benzene treatment for the peacb borer is 
being very generally practised this fall. In Georgia alone about 
one-quarter of a million pounds of this chemical will be used* 
The outbreak of the grape leafhopper, which was threatened 
earlier in the season in the Fresno District of California, did 
not materialize. However, a destructive outbreak developed later 
in the season in the Sonoma district. 
Early this month the dictyosperruo scale was found for the 
first time in a nursery in southern California. It has previously 
been reported from this state as infesting avocado in a greenhouse 
at Berkeley in 1916. 
Late in August the cotton worm* appeared in the lower Gulf 
States, being reported from Alabama August 26 and from Mississippi 
August 29. By September 10, adults had. been observed in upper 
New York State, and by the 14th in Ohio, by the 15th in Nebraska 
and Michigan, and by the 2Tth in Massachusetts. In the cottcn belt 
this insect defoliated the cotton in some places, but did little 
damage to this crop except in parts of Oklahoma. Farther north- 
ward, however, quite serious damage was done to ever-bearing 
strawberries and the tree fruits by the adults. The moths seemed 
to have followed two lines of flight northward, one upward along 
the Atlantic Coast to the Hudson River, thence southwestward along 
the Great Lakes, the other flight following up the Mississippi 
Valley. The data, however, are very fragmentary, and further 
notes on the date of appearance of this insect are solicited. 
The boll weevil has appeared 40 miles north of the commercial 
cotton producing section in Arkansas, and is now north of the crest 
of the Ozarks. 
The Mexican bean beetle is known to occur, in addition to 
the territory already reported, in the western corner of South 
Carolina, in Cherokee and Clay Counties, North Carolina, in the 
southeastern border of Kentucky, in I<icCreary County, and in Sonora 
Texas • 
The greenhouse leaf-tyer has been reported as very seriously 
interfering with certain lines of florists work in parts of New 
York State. 
