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it could be inspected and the amount of trash per bale was, of course, increased. 
All of these factors naturally tended to lower the efficiency of inspection. In 
the western extension of Texas inspections were intensified. Conditions there 
were more favorable and a large volume of trash was inspected without any 
specimens being found. In Pima County, Ariz., trash was inspected throughout 
the ginning season with negative results as far as the pink bollworm was 
concerned. In the Safford area of Arizona only 7 specimens were found this 
season as compared with 20 last season. In the Pecos Valley of Texas and 
the Mesilla Valley of New .Mexico bolls inspected from the 1934 crop did not 
show any infestation; therefore gin-trash machines were run for short periods 
in these areas merely to obtain evidence of infestation. 
Table 18 gives a summary of the various methods of inspection together with 
the number of specimens found. 
Table IS. — Summary of inspections for the pink bollworm in regulated areas, 
crop season of 1935 
Gin trash 
Field 
Laboratory 
District 
Quantity 
Pink 
boll- 
worrns 
Time 
Pink 
boll- 
worms 
Samples 
Pink 
boll- 
worms 
Southern Georgia l 
Bushels 
3,104 
4,138 
9,643 

78 



117 


150 
3, 241 
1,945 
Number 




20 



18 



7 
CO 
Man-days 
14 
11 











4 
Number 














Number 

149 
202 
120 
113 
20 
60 
254 
255 


43 
53 

Numbtr 

Northern Florida 

Western extension, Texas and New Vlex- 

Pecos Vallev, X. Mex_ 

Pecos Vallev, Tex 

Big Bend, Tex 
6,193 
Hudspeth County, Tex. (southeastern 
part) . .- 
175 
El Paso Valley, Tex 
Mesilla Vallev, X. Mex 
11 

Tularosa, X. Mex 


Duncan Valley, Ariz, and X. Alex.. 
Safford Vallev, Ariz 


Tucson, Ariz 

Total 
22, 416 
45 
29 

1,269 
6,379 
The Georgia area was released from regulations Dec. 5, 1935. 
Pink bollworm results negative, but 30 specimens of the thurberia weevil found. 
INSPECTIONS OUTSIDE REGULATED AREAS 
Following the discovery of the pink bollworm in Jackson County. Fla., in 
1934, intensive inspections have been carried on in adjacent counties in south- 
western Alabama each season. In addition, considerable work has been done 
in other counties a little farther removed. In the season of 1935 three machines 
were used from the latter part of August until the middle of October. Inten- 
sive inspections were also carried on in counties surrounding the regulated areas 
in Florida and Georgia. Another area in which intensive inspections were 
carried on was in the counties surrounding the western extension of Texas. 
Inspections were made in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, as usual, 
beginning the 1st of August. The machines moved northward and operated 
on through central and wesl -central Texas. Among the many places where 
inspections were carried on were the formerly infested zones at Hearne, lands. 
and Marilee. A considerable amount of inspection was performed in the 
Salt River Valley of Arizona, where an infestation was eradicated several years 
ago. In Oklahoma a crew using a small machine carried on inspections in 
the southwestern part of the State. A small amount of Inspection was done in 
New Mexico; however, most of the cotton grown in this State is in regulated 
areas. It has been several years since gin-trash inspections were made in 
Louisiana and Mississippi. Green bolls collected in the southern part of each 
State have been inspected each season, and tins season it was considered ad- 
visable to carry on some gin-trash inspections in that part of each State Dot 
covered by the boll inspections. The usual inspections were carried on in 
