SOUTHERN FIELD- r ROP INSERTS 
COTTON 
General 
Statement 
COTTON BOLL WEEVIL ( A nth on emus grand is Boh.) 
Weather, ^rops and Markets, Vol. 4, No. 10 (September 6): The 
cotton crop is forecast at 10,765,000 bales on a basis cf con- 
dition reports averaging 54.1 per cent normal for August 25. The 
prospective yield indicated from this condition figure is 134.8 
pounds per ^cre, out the final yield may be more or less, according 
to developments in condition more or lees favorable than average. 
The indicated production is larger than last year and than two years 
ago, but much smaller than the pre-war average and somewhat smaller 
than the average during the war period. Both insect damage and 
unfavorable weather contributed to the heavy reduction in condition 
during August . 
B. R. Coad: Observations on the seriousness of boll weevil infesta- 
tion throughout the cotton belt during August and early September 
seem to indicate that the heaviest damage is occurring in the faro- 
linas , Alabama, and Mississippi while heavy damage is also reported 
from Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Georgia. Of 340 different 
towns in the cotton belt from which reports have been received, 50 
per cent report that boll weevil damage is heavy ♦ 
Virginia 
Alabama 
Oklahoma 
Massachusetts 
Keroert Spencer (September 15^: This morning the County /gent of 
Norfolk County brought in to the experiment station specimens of 
the cotton ooll weevil. These were taken at the town of Portlock, 
about three miles south of Norfolk. Larvae were abundant in all 
the blighted squares and small bolls. 
Vi r . E. Kinds (August 2b): The boil weevil is causing much more 
damage in the Southern States than has occurred in recent years. 
E. E. Scholl (September 20): Recent rains ewe too late to add to 
the production cf cotton but a lot of squares and fresh fcliap;e will 
be produced to enlarge the fall brood of coll weevils. Y^eevils are 
not so numerous, however, at this time of year as tney were last 
year at the sa-e time. An extended weevil campaign is now being ' 
started bv this institution. 
COTTON LEAFHCHM ( Alabam a argillacea Hbn.) 
T. H. Jones (The Pawtucket Times, Pawtucket, R. I., September 12): 
A cloud of moths of an unclassxfied variety swept down on the City 
of North Adams, Mass,, Monday and remained all day. Show windows, 
windshields of automobiles and everything of a like nature were 
covered. Monday right they starred so thickly around the electric 
arc lamps that the lights almost cast a shadow. Where the moths 
came from nobodv knows. Lost year about the same time they made 
an appearance and . remained until the first frost killed them. 
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