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f inures, ■ obtained independently 5 were l compared at last, they were 
found to agree within less than half of one per cent. The Bureau 
also finds that soaking the seed cane in water of ordinary 
temperatures for ~[2 hours kills the "borers in the stalks and hastens 
the gemination. A Louisiana planter is trying this treatment 
on a large scale 
The cooperating Bureaus estimate that the actual loss, expressed 
in terras of short tons of sugar, due to moth boter damage on the 
acreage used for sugar (excluding the acrage used for "seed" and 
sirup) in the Louisiana Cane Belt for the past three years is as 
follows: 
YEAR ACREAGE USED FOR SUGAR LOSS 0? SUGAR. 
ACRES SHORT TONS OF 
2000 Ids. 
1922 2^1,^33 6i 9 $6lT" 
1923- 217,259 7^954 
192^ . 120,000 35,100 
WIREIQRMS (Eiater'idae) 
Louisiana T u E Holloway and J f T7 Ingram (March 17): Wireworms are again 
doing damage at a plantation near Morgan City. Last year they were 
practically limited to one low field, but this year they seem to 
he distributed over a large part of the plantation. Last year the 
most injurious species was determined as Melan otus sp c , hut this 
year practically all specimens were Mon ocrepidius lividus DeG. 
The damage is m.&''t, serious so far„ A heavy application of kainit 
is heing tried. 
NOTE J Ao Hyslpp: The lar-vae ahove mentioned were sent to me for 
determination. The species as far as we have records is not of 
ser.ious economic importance, hut one of the forms which is normally 
predacious, and was possibly feeding on the more destructive wireworm 
( Melanotus sp„,)sent in from this same region last year. 
TOBACCO 
A TIGER MOTH ( Apantosis phylliiia. Drury) . 
Florida F„ S, Chamherlin (March 26): A field of newly set tohacco was 
oh served March 25, at Quincy„ heing slightly damaged hy larvae of 
Apantesis iJwll.is p*, The field had previously "been in Bermuda grass. 
FOREST AND SHADE- TREE INSECTS 
MISCELLANEOUS FEEDERS 
BAGftORM ( Thyr idopt eryx ephemerae f ormis' H aw. ) 
[ississippi H. Gladngy (Quarterly Bulletin, State Plant Soard of Mississippi, 
Volume 4, No, k (January): Last year the hagworm did considerahle 
damage in many parts of the State hy defoliating and ultimately 
killing valuable trees. This year the damage may he expected to 
he even greater as the esa; supply this winter sreatly exceeds that 
