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Alabama 
Mississippi 
J. U. Robinson (October 20): The cotton leaf worm is very 
abundant in Auburn. 
R. W, Harned (October 22); These insects are very abundant in 
practically every part of the State. 
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New York 
New Jersey 
West Virginia 
Georgia 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Illinois 
CODLIITC MOTH ( Carpocansa pomonella L. ) 
C. R. Crosby (October 20): Codling moth injury is very 
severe in the Hucson Valley this year. One large commercial 
orchard shows injury of about 60 per cent of the crop_ 
Staff of Geneva' Ixperiraent Station (October 20): The 
codling moth is very abundant in western New York. 
T. J. Herdlee (October B): Codling moths are moderately 
abundant, 
L. Vi. Peairs (October 20): The codling moth is very 
abundant in Berkeley County. 
C. H. Alder. (October 24): The codling moth is very abundant 
in Cornelia; worst since 1325. 
T. H. Parks (October 28): Counts have just been completed 
in 94 orchards where the sprr.y- service recommend-.tions were 
folloxTed. These men spr-yed in the calyx, followed by two to 
four cover sprays, depending upon their location and the degree 
of norm infestation; 5.5 per cent of the fruit was infested or 
blemished by the l~rv-e at harvest time, co.ap- red to 4.4 per 
cent d-mpged in 192S. The heaviest infestation -as in southern 
Ohio where 1-rv-e continued t :nter the fruit in September. 
In L-w/rence County, where two-thirds of the growers were 
unable to apply all of the spr ys o T ~ing to writer shortage, 
approximately 50 per cent of the fruit w~s damaged by codling 
moth larv?e. In the orchrds which followed our schedule, 
only one spr~y was a? lied for the second brood of worms. 
J. J. Davis (October 20): L~rvre were still entering fruit 
in southern Indi-uir a week r.go. 
H. P. Flint (October 21): Third-brood -nd 1-te secend-brood 
codling moth larvae caused very her.vy damage to ?pples this 
yerr. Surveys in southern ~nd western Illinois conducted by 
Mr. dandier and Mr. Bigger show infastrtions running as high 
<\s 58 per cent in some orchards in southern Illinois -nd 30 
per cent in some orch.-rds in -estern Illinois. These infes- 
tations occurred in commercial orchards which hrd received 
from five ta seven applications of spr?y during the summer. 
