70 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1 
M( i . .in States adjacent to the Texas border. As mentioned In the Introduc- 
tion, the results were ••ill aegative outside regulated areas, infestation ims 
ed in the Juarez Valley of Mexico, which Is opposite the El Paso Valley 
ias, tor ;i Dumber of years. The inspections in thai area were again 
made by hand from time to time, and specimens of the pink bollworm were 
found, immediately after the i: i 1 1 n i 1 1 u season was completed the Inspection of 
green bolls and bolly samples collected in the various cotton States was begun 
;ii the laboratory. The results of this inspection were aegative al the 
of the fiscal year, but all of the material has not yel been inspected. 
Table 19 gives a summary of the various kinds of Inspection and the amount 
of materia] inspected. 
'!' \i;i i: 19. 
Sv/m/mary of inspections for tin pink bollworm outsidi regulated 
areas, crop season of 19S5 ■ 
State 
(iin 
trash 
Field 
I.aUira- 
tory 
Gin 
I.ahora- 
:.;i 
In. .'.Ml 
6,383 
654 
1,251 
75 
926 
14, 181 
.A fan-days 
1 






4 
6 
Samples 
M 

36 
213 


17 

Mexico: 
Chihuahua l _~ 
1 ihuila 
Nuevo Leon. .. 
Tamaulip i 
Total 
Grand total - 
. 





Florida. . 


ippi 
New Mexico 
Oklahoma 
941 
(i 
42, 512 
11 
3.159 
Texas ..-. 
Total 
41,571 
11 
3,159 
i All results negative, except that 17 pink bollworma were found in the Juarez Valley of M< 
WILD COTTON IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA 
In Juno 1032 a rather heavy pink bollworm infestation was found in wild 
cotton in southern Florida. The eradication of iiiis wild cotton was imme- 
diately begun, in remove this menace from the main Cotton Belt, and has been 
continued each year since. This year especially good progress was made with 
work carried on with emergency relied* funds provided by the Work- Progress 
Administration. Because of climatic factor- ii i> possible to work only during 
the fall, winter, and spring months. 
in i!>.*;."i the work was begun ahout i he middle of November ami continued 
until the latter part of June. As a result of using Works Progress Administra- 
tion funds, a more thorough and far-reaching program was carried out than 
in any previous season. Larger crews wore available, which made it possible 
to cover the territory more thoroughly than ever before and also to cover large 
.•ire- 1- not previously entered. These ;nv;iv were in i he general vicinity ^f known 
wild cotton, but as a rule were not ideal for it- growth; however, it was im- 
portant thai they be Investigated. The Largest continuous wild cotton area is 
on Cape Sable on a snip about 35 miles Long, fronting on Florida Bay and the 
Gulf of .Mexico and ranging in width from ;i few yards tO •'!'■_• mile-. Some i>( 
this area had never before been cleaned, but by the end of the season the entire 
known cotton area in southern Florida had been cleaned ;n Least once ami many 
of t he locations several times. Many of the more accessible Locations have been 
kepi I'vi'i- of mature plants for the Last two or three seasons, and at each re- 
cleaning ii i- \eiw aoticeable that there is a considerable decrease in the number 
• ■I seedling and sprout plants. During t he year a Qrsl dean up was made cover- 
ing 5,051 acres, from which i < • i .7^ i mature and 86,158 seedling plants were 
removed, in addition, a recleaning was made of the areas previously cleaned. 
and 11,350 mature, 2,734,676 seedling, and 56,746 sprout plants were removed. 
ui to he a large number of mature plants to remove from areas 
previously cleaned, bul it i- due to the fact that the area was covered more 
thoroughly than ever before. The records show that 97 percent of the mature 
plants were removed during the first cleaning; and, considering the area in which 
the plants occurred, this Is ;i rerj g I record. Since the clenn-up \\;i- first 
ii, :i little over sl • million plants have been destroyed. Of this number 17 
it were mature plants, s <> percent seedlings, and •". percent sprout plants. 
