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had contracts for 60 acres in Green County and 110 acres in Wayne 
County, Mississippi, and 40 acres in Washington County, Alabama. 
The weevil caused serious damage to this entire acreage. 
TURNIP APHID ( Rhopalosiphum pseudobrassicae Davis ) 
Florida J. R. Watson (February 23): In late December and early January tur- 
nips were generally heavily infested with Aphis pseudobrassicae Davis. 
The freeze of January 3 destroyed the hosts and of course the infes- 
tation of aphids as well. 
souther:; field-crop insects 
COTTON 
PINK BOLL WORM ( Pectinophora gossypiella Saund . ) 
Texas Official Record, Vol. 7, No. 6, (February 8): A new and very exten- 
sive outbreak of the pink boll worm has developed in western Texas. 
This new invasion has been' found to cover a considerable portion of 
Ector, Midland, and Marten Counties in the western part of the Texas 
cotton belt. This is probably ohe most serious situation in pink 
boll worm work that has developed since 1917. 
BOLL WEEVIL (Anthonomus grand is Boh.) 
Louisiana W. E. Hinds (February 25): '..inter minimum temperatures in Louisiana 
have not been low enough to accomplish xay unusual destruction of 
boll weevils in hibernation. At the time of minimum cold it was also 
dry, and this combination is less effective than the same cold if 
immediately following heavy rains. Boll weevils have not yet begun 
to emerge from our hibernation cages, but we anticipate at least 
an average abundance of weevils to start the initial attack on cotton 
in Louisiana this spring. The defoliation of cotton by the leaf worm 
was much less general in the fall of 1927 than in 1926 ana many more 
weevils, therefore, entered hibernation last fall. 
Texas F. L. Thomas (February 23): Fifty-three lbs. of moss examined at 
Sugarland showed that 28§ per cent of the weevil's ■ . . ere alive. 
In thia.Ciise the survival would amount to 225.-wes?vU.3-per ton. In 
122 lbs. of moss examined at College Station 2.7 per cent, or 15.9 
weevils, were alive p^r ton. 
SUGARCANE 
SUG.J3CANE BORER ( Diatraea s accharalis Fab.) 
Louisiana W. S. Hinds (February 25): The sugarcane borer population entering 
hibernation was decidedly less in the fall of 1927 than in the fall 
of 1926. Climatic conditions during the winter have been fairly 
favorable for borer survival but the infestation will undoubtedly 
