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Blister "beetle injury was reported generally from New England to Kansas 
and trie Gulf. 
Serious damage to tomato fruit from the corn ear worm was reported from 
the Middle Atlantic and East Central States. The usual damage to sweet corn 
is being generally reported. The infestation in southern California is ap- 
parently increasing. 
Unusual injury to potatoes "by leafhopper was reported from the Middle 
Atlantic States and from some parts of Indiana and North Dakota. 
Prom New York westward to South Dakota the imported cabbage worm was 
generally destructive. 
False chinch bug attacking sugar beets is reported from Idaho south to 
Arizona and east to Oklahoma .and Texas. 
The boll weevil is causing more damage in South Carolina than it has in 
a number of years. Infestation, is also quite heavy in northern Georgia. In 
the Gulf region, although populations are not unusually high, weather favor- 
able for weevil development has increased the hazard. Heavy infestations are 
also reported from eastern and southeastern Texas. 
Cotton flea hopper damage was reported from northern Georgia westward 
to southern Texas. 
A half-grown cotton leaf worm was found on July. 22 in southern Georgia 
and one on July 13 in southern Alabama. Up to August 2, however, no leaf 
worm had been reported from Louisiana or Mississippi. 
Gypsy moth infestation in New England is heavier than it has been for 
many years and very serious defoliation is generally reported. 
Severe defoliation by the forest tent caterpillar is also reported from 
New England and Minnesota. 
Cankerworms are generally reported from Nbt2[ England, and the most 
serious outbreak of the spring cankerworm ever to be reported is under way 
in Nebraska. 
The bagworm is generally prevalent from New England and the East Central 
States southward to the Sulf. 
A heavy infestation of the spruce budworm on ponderosa pine is reported 
from Colorado. 
