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3.^ to 25.8, with an average. of lU.3 percent. In Choctaw County the 
infestation is serious in the "bottoms, but in the uplands comparatively 
little damage will he caused. 
Texas. K. P. Ewing (July 3) : Infestation in Calhoun County increased during 
the week to an average of 23»12 percent, as compared to 10.7 percent 
the preceding week. In the Lavaca River bottom at Edna there was an 
average of 70*28 percent punctured squares. (July 2*+): Average in- 
festation 70.^+9 percent. The maturity of the cotton combined with the 
high weevil infestation in all of this area, particularly in Calhoun 
and Jackson Counties, has caused the cotton to practically stop blooming 
in many fields. There was a noticeable migration into small cotton 
this week. 
Prog. Rpt. Tex. Agr. Expt. ;Sta. (July 3)' I n general, boll weevils 
are causing far more damage in the coastal prairie section north of 
Corpus Christi than is realized. All cotton fields in the Lavaca River 
bottoms of Jackson County are being severely damaged where no control 
measures have been used. (July 10): The boll weevil infestation is 
increasing in southern and south-central Texas. (July 17): ' Average 
infestation records from eight counties in t he State, ranging from Van 
Zandt and Smith in northern Texas to. Dimmit and Calhoun in southern 
Texas, indicate that little damage is being caused in the northeast and 
the blackland areas of central Texas. The infestation reached a maximum 
of ho percent on Brazos River bottom farms, and on upland farms the 
average increased from 35 to ^"2 percent during the last week, according 
to Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine workers. (July 2^): The 
boll weevil infestation in untreated. fields of several counties averaged 
as follows: Calhoun, 28 Percent; Jackson, 53 percent; Brazos, Uo percent; 
Buries cr. , 25 percent; Milan, U percent; Smith, 5. percent. 
COTTON FLEA HOPPER ( Psallus soriatus Rout.) 
Georgia. P. M. Gilmer (June 26): Reports from Vienna, Unadilla, and Columbus, 
in the northern part of the State, indicate rather severe injury. At 
Tifton, in the southern part, the insect is present but has done no 
special damage. (July 17): The northern infestation seems to have 
declined sharply. 
0. I. Snapp (July l): The cotton flea hooper has damaged cotton 
near Fort Valley, in central Georgia. 
Arkansas. D. Isely (July 2^): There has been more injury by the cotton flea 
hopper this year than any year since 1926. 
Oklahoma. F. A. Fenton (July 20): Damage to squares caused alarm in several 
widely scattered sections, notably in Sequoyah and Okfuskee Counties. 
C. F. Stiles (July 22): Cotton flea hopper is occurring quite 
generally over the State but is decreasing in numbers. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (July 23): !7as causing injury to cotton at Pope on June 
