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■ fter the crop hi s bei n mi de. Final killing frosts -ore generally 
cc ■ ly late and lar bcrs of ' ?evils -ere "bred during 
ion. In olina Georgia 
pi lly all points : - located in the belt of 
comparatively light, sand soil where the plants matured early 
ar.d did not have this heavy second growth. In North Carolina 
there v?as a heavy second growth and ideal conditions for large 
rs of '-7oevils to breed and enter hibernation. 
The significance of the foregoing, as far as. the cotton 
farmer is concerned, is the fact that ir. spite of the high degr 
of climatic control of the reevils during the. past tvo years, 
they finally succeeded in entering hibernation in at least 
normal abu much of the Cotton Sejt this fall 70 that 
• it is again a n-ae^tien of winter temperature followed by summer 
climatic conditions -hich --ill determine 3 to the crop 
next year. In ether -crds, as fir ;.? present conditions indicate, 
there is absolutely no reason for the farmers to believe that 
the comparative immunity 'of the past t"-o years '"'ill be continued 
t season. 
Arizona Oscar C. Bartlett : The cotton bell '-eevil appeared in t— 
fields of cot ten at Continental , ivi?. , "hich v- about 30 miles 
south. of Tucson. There fere two small infi ens of it, each 
one less than one-half, acre in extent. The infestation net 
severe.' This infestation -as caused "oy the so-called mid 
boll '-eevil or Thurb.er.in weevil. It moved into domestic fields 
from T'ild cotton plants. 
