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during the normal planting time, excellent croos were harvested and the 
highest yields in the history of the Twin Falls ana Barley areas obtained. 
Conditions in east Idaho arfra were also excellent as far as freedom 
from Eutettix tenellus was concerned. An area in the •"'est end of the 
Snake River Valley which was more or less experimental gave a yield of 
22 tons to the acre on 300 acres plant.,.. In the Sevier Valley, Utah, a 
very mixed condition holds. There "'as a considerable movement of insects 
into the valley early in May, though the populations v .'ere not uniform. 
Those areas where the populations ""ere high suffered severely, "but some 
sections gave fair averages. In both :he Idaho and Sevier Valley areas 
the percentage of E, tenellu s bearing the curly- top virus was very 
low," (Ifclter Carter, Bureau of Entomology, U. S, F. A.) 
SUGARCANE BORER. 
"The damage from the sugarcane borer ( Piatraea saccharalis Fab.) 
"?ns high in Louisiana in 1927. The winter of 1926-27 T ~as rather dry 
and favored hibernation. The spring development was at least a month 
earlier than usual. By August 1 as much as 66 per cent of the stalks of 
sugarcane were infested in some fields, and th 3 increase was rapid until 
at the time for cutting (October 1 and later) the stalk infestation over 
the sugar section of Louisiana averaged 32.8 per cent, with some fields 
having an infestation of 100 per cent. It is estimated, in a preliminary 
way that there was a loss of 27 per cent of the sugar crop from the moth 
borer in 1927, 
Examinations" on the spread of the moth borer were not made in 1927, 
but it is known that little new territory is acquired from one 5 r ear to 
another. Roughly, the territory occupied m the southern half of 
Louisiana, the southern half of Florida, the coast of Texas, the coast 
of Mississippi, and a suction around Woodville, Miss." (T, E» Holloway 
and 7, E. Haley, Bureau of Entomology, U. S, D» A.) 
G-YPSY MOTH, 
"As a result of the exterminative measures used by the Bureau of 
Entomology with the infested States cooperating, no additional territory 
has been found infested by the gypsy moth (P orthctria dispa r L, ) during 
the past year. There has been a decrease in the infested area in New 
Jersey and New York. Conditions in ^he barrier sone in western Hew 
England and eastern New York have improved and it has been possible 
to release from quarantine 13 to-ns in Vermont and 2 in Connecticut. East 
of' this area the infestations were mo Je severe, than during the previous 
year, and the parasites and natural enemies have not been effective 
this season. In Massachusetts feeding was especially severe in Bristol, 
Plymouth, Norfolk, Middlesex, and Essex Counties. Large areas were almost 
entirely defoliated north of Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, and 
the acreage in the Lake Sebago section of Maine was the largest that has 
ever occurred in that State, In Rhode Island there ^ere several heavily 
foliated .areas. A survey including the heaviest infested areas in 
all of the Hew England States showed partial to complete defoliation 
in 142,000 acres. 
