-23- 
The above figures indicate that the farmers will have a very 
good crop' chance at the outset this year in the district 
represented by the Tailed ah examination at least , but the 
final outcome of the crop "still depends largely on the summer 
weather conditions, and no one should relax in the weevil 
fight on the basis of the prospect of light weevil infestation, 
because sufficient; weevils will si/ill emerge to do serious 
damage with a normal or unfavorable summer. Furthermore, 
it should be rem fullered that the abcve figures do not necessarily 
apply to the entire cotton belt, and each district should bear in 
mind the minimum cemperatures they have experienced during the 
winter and figure accordingly. Also the type of shelter 
available is exceedingly important, as these records are taken 
in the northern portion of the zone in which Spanish moss is 
found, and during cold winters a heavier mortality is found 
in this zcne than in the somewhat more northerly sections where 
the weevils secure better shelter. 
Oklahoma 
E. E, Scholl (March- IS) : A general snowstorm of the last few 
days has delayed the emergence of insects in Oklahoma. There 
was some activity of boll '"'eevils before this cold spell sir.uiJk 
Oklahoma. but at the present time there is very little to 
report. 
SUGAR CAKE 
SUGAR-CAKE BORER (D iatraea sac char al is Tab.) 
Louisiana Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, ITo*llS, February,! 92U 
L. II* Janes, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, cooperating 
with T. E, Holloway and ff„ S„ Hrley of the Bureau of Entomology, 
estimates the normal loss to sugar-cane in Louisiana due to the 
sugar-cane moth borer to be 570 pounds of sugar per acre. The 
loss for 1922 is estimated at 510 pounds, and for 1923 at 
690 pounds. The borer is responsible for similar damage in 
Florida, Mississippi, and Texas, and it also seriously injures 
corn, broomcorn, kafir, etc, 
FOREST AND SHADE- TREE IK SECTS 
MISCELLANEOUS V EEDERS 
Illinois 
WHITE-MARKED TUSSOCK MOTH (Hemerocampa . leuco stigma S. &CA. ) 
77. P. Flint: Egg masses of the tussock moth are more numerous 
than usual in cities in the northern half of -Illinois. The ' • 
infestation is not as heavy as that occurring in some localities 
during the past outbreaks of this insect, but is more general 
than any outbreak which has occurred in the last ten years. 
Collections made in the vicinity of Chicago and a t Urbana showed 
a very small percentage of parasitism in the eggs. - 
