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" A "defoliant, re-growth inhibitor, and boll opener," Finish is produced by Rhone-Poulenc.
They deserve to pay twenty cents a pound for their cotton when the boll weevil has cut down the normal supply.
The corn-root worm is charged with causing an annual loss of two per cent of the corn crop, or $20,000,000; the chinch bug another two per cent; the boll or ear-worm two per cent more.
-The great enemies of the cotton-planter are the cotton boll weevil, the bollworm and the leaf worm; but other insects inflict serious damage.
In 1904 the loss occasioned by the boll weevil, chiefly in Texas, was conservatively estimated by an expert, Mr.
The boll worm of the southwestern cotton states has sometimes caused an annual loss of $12,000,000, or four per cent of the crops in the states affected.
The Cotton Boll Weevil.
The cotton boll weevil invaded the United States from Mexico in 1894.
The cotton boll weevil strikes at the heart of the industry by destroying the boll of the cotton plant.
Fortunately we have at hand a government publication on this subject which gives some pertinent facts regarding the bird enemies of the cotton boll weevil.
I quote the most important portions of this valuable document: Birds Useful In The War Against The Cotton Boll Weevil.
The main purpose of this circular is to direct the attention of cotton growers and others in the cotton growing states to the importance of birds in the boll weevil war, to emphasize the need of protection for them, and to suggest means to increase the numbers and extend the range of certain of the more important kinds.
Investigations by the Biological Survey show that thirty-eight species of birds eat boll weevils.
Their peculiar value to the cotton grower consists in the fact that, like the nighthawk, they capture boll weevils when flying over the fields, which no other birds do.
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