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setts, where it severely damaged potato tubers. This damage seems to be a 
little extraordinary so far north. 
Reports from Minnesota and Iowa indicate that the squash bug is more 
abundant than usual this fall. 
Injury to the immature pods of peanuts by larvae of the spotted cucumber 
beetle- in -Virginia was reported" In September. 
The tobacco worm continued its depredations into late fall, serious in- 
jury being reported from Connecticut, 
Late season conditions have been very favorable for boll weevil develop- 
ment and reports from South. Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, 
and eastern Texas indicate that weevils, are much more abundant in the fields 
than for the past several years. Abundant rains have produced a late growth 
of squares and young bolls in which the weevils have continued to develop. 
