80 ANNl/AL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTVRE, 194 
IN SPEC I IoN OUTSIDE OK KIXil'LNTfcD AREAS 
Gin-trash inspection is concentrated each year in areas adjacent 
to known infested areas in order to disclose any spread of the pink 
bollworm from regulated areas while still in the incipient stage, so 
that build-up and wider distribution of the infestation may be pre- 
vented. As a result of such inspection of the 1939 crop, a light 
infestation was found in several counties, and these were added to 
the regulated areas and listed under that heading. Inspection of 
gin trash was also carried on in the southwestern part of Louisiana 
and in practically every county in Mississippi where any appreciable 
amount of cotton is grown, and practically all trash from the north- 
ern part of Florida and the southern pails of Alabama and Georgia 
was inspected. Willi the exception of Texas results of all inspection 
in these States were negative as to pink bollworm infestation. There 
was also some gin-trash inspection in Mexico in the States of Tamau- 
lipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Chihuahua. A total of 7.483 speci- 
mens of the pink bollworm were taken through the inspection of 880 
bushels of trash in the Matainoros area, which is at a somewhat 
lighter rate per bushel than was recorded in 1938. From the Reynosa 
area, examination of f)G4 bushels yielded 21 pink bollworms as com- 
pared with 9 from 322 bushels of trash during the 1938 season. In the 
Don Martin district of Nuevo Leon 6 pink bollworms were taken 
through the examination of G2 bushels of trash. This is the first record 
of infestation in the Don Martin area, which has been inspected annu- 
ally for a number of years. In the Juarez Valley, in the State of 
Chihuahua, the same amount of trash was inspected in each of the 
last two seasons, and less than half as many worms were found in 
1939 as in 1938. 
A summary of the amount and the results of the various kinds of 
inspection is given in table 10. 
Table 10. — Summary of inspections for the pink bollworm outside of rcgvhittd 
areas, crop season of 19.W 
Gin trash 
Field 
Laboratory 1 
State 
Quantity 
Pink boll- 
worms 
Man -days 
Pink boll- 
worms 
Samples 
Pink r*,ll. 
worms 
Alabama 
Bushels 
1, 8.50 
Number 

Number 

Number 

Number 

Nu m brr 

Arizona 
2'.<3 





California 
8, 70S 





Florida 
388 

32 

594 

Oeorjda 
2, 6s3 
1.273 

43 

468 






Mississippi 
7, 677 




I 
New Mexico 




15 

Oklahoma 
562 



341 
II 
46, 989 



2. iv.s 

Total 
70.423 

75 

3. 

Mexico: 
Chihuahua 
31^ 
2, 435 





Coahuila 



49 
62 
6 




TttmanlipM 
'.Ml 
7. 503 




Total 
1,037*4 
0, 944 


49 
3 
7l.46Ul« 
0,044 
75 

3.535 
3 
1 I.n>M>r:ttory inspection covers bolls collected from 1938 crop. 
