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River Valley this year. Commercial damage is not anticipated. 
Mexico. C. S. Rude (September l): The cotton leaf worm appeared in large 
numbers in many places in the Laguna during the week. (September 8): 
Cotton is being defoliated. (September 15) : The infestation is wide- 
spread over the entire Laguna district and reports of it have been re- 
ceived from Las Dclicias, Chihuahua. 
BOLLWORM ( Heliothis obsoleta F. ) 
South Carolina. F. F. Bondy (September 26) i At Florence the bollworm is 
doing considerable damage in fields of late cotton. 
Georgia. P. M. Gilmer (September 19): At Tifton little injury has been noted; 
practically no bollworms present. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (September 2^); Severe damage was reported from Sandy 
Hook on August 28 and from Monticello on September 1. 
Louisiana. R. C. Gaines (September 5).' At Tallulah s^me bollworms can be 
found in practically all fields, poisoned and unpoisoned. 
Texas. K. P. Swing (September 12): At Port Lavaca, the bollworm can still 
be found doing considerable damage in seme fields, although most of the 
worms have matured. 
R. '.V. Mo re land (August 29): At Bryan, in examining 1,HS0 cotton 
terminals, 183 e SS s were found, or an average of 13 eggs per 100 
terminals. 
PINK BOLLWORM ( Pectinorhora gossypiella Saund. ) 
Texas. F. S. Puckett (August 17): Gin-trash inspections have gone forward 
very rapidly in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The first pink 
bollworm specimen was found at Brownsville on August 11, and by the 
end of the week 3 additional ones had been found. At San Benito 'the 
first specimen was found on August 12, and by the end of the week a 
total of 15 had been collected. At Rio Grande City one specimen was 
found on August 15. This makes a total of 20 specimens found in the 
valley during the week. 
A. J. Chapman (September 5): On most of the farms in the vicinity of 
Presidio an irrigation is being applied immediately after the first 
1 icking. This practice will, of course, tend to keep the cotton fruiting 
and to build up a heavy pink bollworm infestation. Boll infestation 
records were made in 15 fields. The average infestation in these fields 
was 6U.nO percent, ranging fron 11 to 100 percent. Infestation in 9 of 
the 15 fields last year was 77 '33 percent, as compared to 78. 5^ percent 
this year. (September 12): Boll infestation counts were made in 12 
fields, which averaged 59. k percent ranging from 10 to 100 percent. The 
average infestation in the same fields last year was 36.6 percent and 
ranged from 7 to 9H percent. (September 19) ; The infestation counts made 
