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Show W- ' , Pink Boll Worm Causes Most ft'. jL C Serious Situation to Industry Yu jfgj Experts Say jB: 1 "WASHINGTON, April 0. Reap- M pearanco of the pink boll worm in E K .Texas and discovery of the Insect in p I' Louisiana present the most serious sit- I uation which has ever confronted the I cotton industry of ihe United States, I according to experts of the deparl-Bg' deparl-Bg' merit of agriculture. Unless preventive ff" 3 measures are taken" immediately a re-I re-I view of the situation issued today said. I" il the boll worm will become a perma- m ' ncnt and serious llmitinsr factor In tho ' I production of cotton. ' The drastic quarantine now being - jB, enforced in Louisiana gives hope of ' V; an eradication of the pest in that sec- - I tion, the review said, but tho "unfor- I . ,f tunate result" of the resumption of I iIq, cotton growing In Texas districts I.' jl where the boll worm has become en- ffc, A, trenched threatens to undo the work ! IK of stamping out the destroyer. I If, "As a result of the failure of the I state of Texas to carry out the pro- J Uf gram of control which had been prom- IJ"j M Ised If the Insect should reappear," I B the review stated, "a new arid very Wtr serious phase of the situation dcvel-f dcvel-f hS j oped early In 1920. The one draws' draw-s' SB back to success now Is the delay in ' w Wk I Texas in establishing non-cotton zones J or "ne mece( areas, a delay which W already has resulted in the planting I of considerable areas In cotton. D'e-I D'e-I jl struction of this cotton later on, if w ILz a-uthorlzed by the stale, will simply Bp -mean that much greater cost." |