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COTTON 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomu s grand 3 s Ion.) 
A, F. Conradi. "Mr. H. K. Sanders, county agent of Chester Sounty, 
reports under date of September 15 that this iisect is doing 
serious damage in his county-" 
Lwight Isley (October 10) . "Cotton boll weevil h.is appeared in 
a small cotton field on the Experiment Station Farm at Fayetteville. 
This is of particular interest in that Faye fctevili e is about 
40 miles north of the commercial cotton producing .-egion and is 
separated from it by the crest of the Osarks* Weevils were first 
collected the latter part of last month. At 
nearly mature weevils were found in squares, 
may have occurred a few weeks earlier <?'* 
that time a few 
so that the migration 
M» C. Tanpuary (September 26). "Many letters continue to come 
in from various sections of the State indicating a very heavy 
and widespread outbreak of boll weevil." 
COTTON WOBM ( Alabama argi l lacf fos. Hubn.) 
H. T„ Fervald (September 27). ;, A small flight of these inserts 
appeared on this date at Amherst} &o reports have been recei7ed 
f r om t el s ewhsre i n Ma s s achus e 1 1 s „ fi 
W„ T, M„ Forbes (October 10). 5, A heavy flight of these moths 
has been reported from Sprakers in Montgomery County, the moths 
"being so numerous as to be, a nuisance at night in one house. 11 
M., D* Lecaard (October 10) . fl 0bserved a moth in a building at 
Ithaca todays " 
H Aa Gossard (October 21) « "This insect was sent to us September 
26 from Ashtabula with a complaint that it was damaging peaches 
and that the moths were very abundant. They were quite abundant 
at points farther west about the middle of September." 
Jo J. Davis (October 14) . "The cotton caterpillar moth has been 
reported from all sections of the State, particularly in the 
northern end where it has damaged apple and ever-bearing straw- 
berries, in each case the fruit beijjg injured* w 
