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Normally sufficient cotton is available throughout the winter to permit- 
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continuous fedding on warmer days curing the winter months. 
frosts on November 9 and 10, but favorably located fields escaped and — 
were still green till November 16, with a fair weevil population present.. 
A heavy movement of boll weevils from the field in Madison Parish oc— -: es 8 
curred from November 18 to 21, as shown bythe catch on the flight screens. 
During this period 589:of the total of 1,255 weevils caught during No- 
vember were captured. The total catch per screen was just a little less 
than in November 193e. mane : 
Louisiana.-~ R. C. Gaines and G. A. Maloney, Tallulah, report light. 
-Mississippi.~-Clay Lyle, Entomologist, Stote Collese,. reports kill-— 
ing frosts over most of the State on November 9, 10, andi1l... Weevils 
are bout as abundant as a year ago in Holmes, Hinds, and Lincoln Coun— 
ties in the central and southwestern parts of the State; about. 75 to - 
80 percent as abundant in Grenada, Lee, Monroe, and Lauterdale Counties. 
in the north central, northezstern, and eastern perts of the State; 
much less abundant in Stone County, in the southeastern part of the- 
State: and only 20 percent as abundant in Bolivar County,.in the’ Delta 
in the northwestern part of the State. 
South. Carolina.-+. F. Bondy,. Florence, reports a killing frost 
on November 9, with weevils scarce in the fields after that date. ; 
November in general was cold and very dry, and from all records made 
during the fall, which include screen trapping and catching weevils for 
the hibernation cages, there is no. doubt that the numbers of weevils 
in the fields were far less than in any year sirce 1925. 

Boll weevil parasites in Mississippi.—-P. M.:Gilmer, Tallulah, Lay 
reports considerable varietion in the percentage of parasitization of 
boll weevils, as shown by the emergence from weevil-infested squares 
taken in several counties in Mississippi late in August. - In Warren 
County the parasitization was one half of 1 percent,-while in Oktib- 
beha County it averaged 10.06 percent. Other counties in the north-— 
eastern part of the State, not far from Oktibbeha, averaged about 4 per — 
cent, while in the south central pert of the State parasitization was 
exceedingly low, some counties showing only a fraction. of 1 percent. 
Croton destruction to control cotton flea hopper.-—- K. P. Ewing, 
Port.Lavaca, Tex., reports the first extensive experiment in controlling 
the cotton flea hopper (Psallus seriatus Reut.) by the Cestruction of 
its winter host plants, Croton spp. At this season practically every 
croton plant in that vicinity contains flea nopper eggs and studies 
show that over 98 percent of the overwintering hopper eggs are depos- 
ited in croton, The Civil Works Administration of Texas has approved 
an allotment of $20,000 for the Calhoun County Croton Weed Destruction 
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