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Afc Shrcveport „ "below ?a£r grounds_» the Seed- car a magnet 
was fotand" destroying cantaloupe seed t or tlis damage had "been 
done provious to the visits 
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SQUASH B^G Q masa trlst-is DeG c ) 
Nebraska ■ Don B Whelan (May 25): The earliest report, f£cr the year, of 
damage by the squash brag, came from Cr eight ok 9 En ox Connty, 
under date of April yj, 
ONION TI-IRIPS (Th rins tabac i • L. ) 
Mississippi R» W» Earned (May 22): Thrips collected on onions at Pascagonla 
on May 1 have "been identified as the onion thrips, 
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RHUBARB CURCULIO (li^s cjmeayus 
Indiana 
Nebraska 
GENERAL 
STATEMENT 
J a J» Davis (May 2^) s The rhaD&rb burets:! -3 rar. reported as 
severely damaging rhubarb at IJew Albany on May 13« 
Radish 
A SNOUT BEETLE ( Pnigodes sp„ ) 
Don B. mielan (April 25-May 25'': A snout beetl©nPn*jr;oo.9s sp„ , 
has been reported from Gresham g York County, as working on and 
destroying radishes and turnips* 
SOUTHERN F I E L D -C 3 P INSECTS 
COTTON 
BOLL WEEVIL (/.nthoncmns gran c Is Boh.) 
Br, R* Cpad! (Weevil smergerfce generally at the different cc~ 
operatliig stations has "bean slower during j;.'- las b fifteen 
days of April -".nan was indicated "by emergence during the first 
f ..fteen days of one month. AS teie various stations a total 
cf 255 tre evils emerged during the latter half of the ra 
compared to 321 during the first half. ana total se pr 
to May 1 at the 17 statiqns was 0, SI P®T cert while fo a Ifc 
same period last year 2.^3 per cert of the weevils emerged at 
the stations then cooperating, The a-^r genre 1? st year prior 
to May 1 represented 71 „S j>er cent cf the total eoergoe.ee. At 
Tallulah, la ; , f drring the past 10 years an average of ; 
per cent of the eraergenoe was completed prior to May 1, The 
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