Q2 ANNUAL liKI'oirrS OF I •! il'A K T.M I iN l" ( >F A( IKK TLTUIiK, l'J37 
INSPECTION OUTSIDE REGULATED AREAS 
III planning; the iiisp<'(tioM proj^rani the most attention is, of courst'. given to 
areas most likely to become infested. Tlierefore intensive pin-trash inspections 
were carried on in southern Alabama and (leorpia adjacent to tlie regulated 
area of Florida: also in the territory adjacent to the newly infested area in the 
lower Rio Cirande Valley of Texas and in the territory adjacent to the Texas 
Panhandle regulated area. In the latter case three sjK«cimens of the pink 
bollwnrm were found, two in Howard County and one in I)aw.son County. Thi.s 
is the first finding in Howard County since the crop. Those two counties, 
together with three adjoining ones, were added to the regulattnl area on Decem- 
ber 1, 198G. A considerable amount of gin-lrash insix'ction was al.^o done in 
the Salt River Valley, Ariz., where an infestation was eradicated several years 
ago. Gin-trash or laboratory inspections are carried on as often as possible in 
all of the cotton States. 
A summary of the various kinds of inspection and amount of material, 
together with the results, is shown in table 10. 
Table 10. — Sutnwary of inspections for the innk hoUnorm outside rrgulated 
areas, crop season of 1936 
state 
Alabama 
Arizona 
Arkansas 
California 
Florida 
Georgia 
Louisiana 
Mississippi.. 
Missouri 
New Mexico- 
Oklahoma.. - 
Tennessee. -. 
Texas 
Total. 
Mexico: 
Baja California. 
Chihuahua 
Nuevo Leon 
Sinaloa 
Sonera 
Taraaulipas 
Total 
Grand total. 
' Gin trash 
Field 
Laboratory 
Bushels 
1 
1 
Pink 
boll- 
worms 
Man- 
days 
Pink 
boll- 
worms 
Sam- 
ples 
Pink 
boll- 
worms 
10, 016 
4,937 
304 
1.879 
795 
6,832 
448 
921 
1 
1 386 
22,200 
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586 
375 

9 
671 

1.007 
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48, 722 
3 

2,648 

: 1.024 
1 6>4' 
1.460 
6H 
i.'ie 
393H 

5 



243 


3 





















3, 0461^ 
248 
3 



51, 768K 
251 
14} 2 

2. 648 

CONTROL PROGRAM IN THE BIG BEND AREA OF TEXAS 
r.y the 1932 crop season a very heavy i)ink bollworm infestation had de- 
veloped in the.r.ig r>end area of Texas. This constituted a very great danger, 
in that infestation might spread to the Cotton F>elt. Therefore, in order to 
reduce the infestation and eliminate the danger of spread, a .siHH-ial control 
program was put into effwt. This, briefly, consisted in thorough clean-np 
of cotton fields in the fall: the delayed planting of the cotton crop the fol- 
lowing spring, so the peak of moth emergence would pa.ss before cotton began 
fruiting; and the use of small plots of cotton to trap the later emerging 
moths. The program was carried on each year and very good results were 
being (tblained. As the large worm i)opulation was reduced the farmers 
began making a better top crop. They natunilly want(Ml to h:irvest this, and as 
a result lields were not ready for ch'aning before worms beg.MU going into 
the ground in the fall to hibernate. There was some dissatisfaction over the 
driiiyrd pl:iiiiiiig diiieut' .\pril lii the fall of V.''.".(*» farmers as a rul«' m.ade 
