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Show I WAR ON BOLL-WEEVEL TO BE HARD FOUGHT COLUMBIA. S. C, March 25. An in-i creased production of calcium arseu-l ate will make It possible for farmer3 to wage war against the boll weevil , this year on a greatlv enlarge scale, (U Secretary of Agriculture Meredith told' ' f. the members of the South Carolina j branch of the American Cotton associ-j I atlon in an address here today. $ Regarding efforts to confine the f pink boll weevil to the infested areas v in oLuisiana and Texas ho asserted In Louisiana and Texas ho asserted ft the agricultural department's willing- aess to place a federal quarantine I Mr. Meredith said the test of calcl-ura calcl-ura arsenate as a pojson that would St eliminate the ordinary boll weevil was tried successfully last year on an aban-I? aban-I? doned farm. |