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The tonato worn is appearing earlier than usual in the to"bacco 
district of northwestern Florida. 
Cold weather has delayed planting and has killed much cotton 
that was planted early. Planting has also "been delayed "by drought in sone 
areas and by too nuch rain in others. The cold dry weather in April has 
delayed the emergence of boll weevils in r.any places. By the end of the 
month weather conditions favored the growth of cotton and the weevils 
were reported as moving into the fields. 
Early in the season the cotton flea hopper appeared in great 
abundance, but it received a set-back by the cold weather and at present 
is no nore than normally abundant. 
The great number of reports of abundance of cankcrw'orms indi- 
cate that the insect is occurring in outbreak forn in the Middle Atlantic 
States from New Hampshire to South Carolina, also in Ohio and Mississippi. 
The forest tent caterpillar is reported in abundanco in South 
Carolina and Mississippi. 
An introduced aphid, Myzus ornatus Laing, is occurring in abun- 
dance at Berkeley, Calif., and has been discovered in Los Angeles County. 
D ial our odes chit tendon i Laing is being reported from Connecticut 
for the first tine. 
