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to the sugarcane crop ir. Louisiana, due to the sug; rcane moth 
borer, has been m:.de for the fourth consecutive crop by Mr. 
Lionel L. Janes, of the'Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and 
Messrs. TV E. Hollo-. y and 77, E, Haley, of the Bureau of Entomology, 
U. S,. Department of / ture. All the work was done through 
the local offices of the Department in New Orleans. 
The m thods of estimating used "by the t v, o organizations "'ere 
widely different, the entomologists calculating their results 
from field examinations made by themselves, while the Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics relied on the replies to questionnaires v 
sent to sugar planters. Yet the estimates obtained "by the two 
different methods were very close. 
The loss for 1925 was estimated at 30 oer cent of a full crop. 
This compared with a loss of 13 oer cent for 192H, 23 per cent for 
1323, -and 17 vcr cent for 1922. The loss for a normal year is 
timated at 19 per cent. In 1925 there was literally a loss 
ICO per cent for some fields, Hie re the cane was g*j haalr v ;ni fthat 
it was refused by the factory. 
FOREST AND SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
BAG WORM ( Thyridonteryx ephemera ef ormis Haw, ) 
J", "c McColloch (March 15): A report from Hartford, Lyon County, 
3 received of the -nresence of large numbers of bagworms on 
de trees. 
PINE 
EUROPEAN PINE SA.7FLY (Dior ion simi le Hart is) 
York R. 3.. Horsey (March 29): Four "'inter cocoons rare found at Roc 
■ 1 1 >ar isit i zed. 
PINE LEAF SCALE (Shio-.iasyic pinJJttLiae Fitch) 
New York R. E, Horsey (March 29): A.t Rochester, the r>in9 leaf scale - - 
nowhere abundant, except on one small tree. 
B03SEL 3 
BQXELDSEt /APTITD (lo-o*pccrii-- trivittatus Say) 
2" Draska M. H. S-enk (April 1): Th.2 bcotelder aphid caused con- ble 
com -ant as a jest in h mses luring the late fall ■ ly 
-inter of I925. 
RED MITE ( Tetranvchus sea.) 
L. I. Bourne (Larch 22): So far as we have been able to gather 
data over the State, it would seem that th mites are a;oing 
to be ev quite abundant, 1 in particular orchards 
i tj bion ir some"-' -t spptty; that is, some blocks may be 
