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SUGARCANE 
SUGARCANE BORES (Diatraea saacharalis Fat.) 
Louisiana. W. E. Hinds (June 29): The sugarcane borer received a de- 
cided setback during the Vv..ry severe Gulf hurricane which swept across 
most of the Louisiana cane bolt on June l6. In much of this area 
wind velocities ranged from 50 to 7^ miles per hour. A heavy rainfall 
occurred also. Corn, which was then nearly mature (where most of the 
borers were reaching maturity at the end of the first generation), 
was whipped to shreds and the loss in yield will be heavy. Most of 
the first-generation adults, which were then active and laying eggs, 
wore killed by the storm and the eggs laid on the foliage of corn and 
cane were washed or whipped off and destroyed. Many of the very young 
borers then in the leaf rolls also seem to have perished. As a re- 
sult, through the area most severely affected by the storm there is 
a rather serious injury to certain very tender varieties cf cane, 
but a compensating destruction of borers may finally benefit the 
yield of c-inc as much as the storm damaged it directly. 
VETCH 
A BRUCHID (Bruchus brachial is Fahraeus) 
Pennsylvania and ITorth Carolina. C. C. Hill (July "50): An infestation 
is occurring in hairy vetch near Waynesboro , Franklin County, fa. 
Specimens have been taken at Salisbury, Rowan County, and at States- 
ville, Iredell County, N.C. 
