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-'COTTON INSECTS 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grandls Boh. ) 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (June): Infestation is rather general over the 
Blackville section, but not serious. 
F. F. .Bondy (June 25): In Florence County, northeastern coastal 
plain, in l6 untreated plots the infestation averaged about 5 percent. 
The damage seems to be the worst in the past several years. 
Georgia, P. M.' Gilmer and P. A, Slick (Juno 19): At Tifton, in southern 
Georgia, the infestation in Sea Island cotton is quite heavy and a 
few fields of upland cotton show a heavy infestation. First-brood 
weevils are beginning to emerge. 
W. L. Lowry (June 25) J In Lowndes and Echols Counties square 
examinations in both poisoned and unpoisoned fields showed little or 
no increase in infestation during the past 3 weeks. 
Florida. C. S. Rude and L. C. Fife (June 25): ' The infestation is heavier 
than it was a year ago. Last year the average infestation in 21 fields 
was 8.k percent as compared with 29 percent in the 15 fields examined 
this year. 
Mississippi. C, Lyle (June 2k) : According to reports, the infestation over 
the State is considerably higher this year than during tho last 2 years. 
R. L. McGarr (June 25): At State College, in cast-central Missis- 
sippi, inspections of 8,^00 squares in 25 untreated plots and fields 
this week showed an average infestation of 21.6 percent. This was a 
decrease from the previous week of 7*3 percent, which was mostly due 
to some of the overwintered weevils dying and increase in tho numbers 
of squares on the plants. 
J. C. Clark (June 25): In Washington County (Delta section) 
weevils have scattered farther from hibernation quarters than in the 
past 2 years. Boll weevils appeared on the Experiment Station farm 
13 days earlier than in 1935« IS days earlier than in 193&, a-^d- 17 days 
earlier than in 1937- 
Louisiana. C. 0. Eddy (June): Farmers arc reporting that the boll weevil 
is unusually abundant, and early indications are of J>0- to 60-percent 
infestation. 
R. C. Gaines (June 11): During the past week US,000 cotton plants 
were examined in Madison Parish, and an average of 90 weevils per acre 
was found. During the sane week in 19'37» *+9 weevils per acre, in 193^» 
13 weevils per acre, and in 1935» 1^0 weevils por acre were found. 
