Show BOLL WEEVIL inventor has machine he claims will crush out ev I 1 because of the great extent of the ravages of the cotton boll weevil and the rapidly extending area ot its opera eions considerable attention has been lately directed toward ae tion of that persevering pest there are some who contend that the prom aises of the agricultural department made on behalf of the guatemala ant 1 which it is hoped to combat the will not be materialized tor nany reasons and all kinds of sug gest ions are being made with the hope of finding some scheme for ridding the country of the scourge of the cot ton plantation one individual claims the only effective way Is to purge the fields regularly each year by fire which he says destroys the begs and effectually prevents their thus keeping down the number of the worms to the minimum A texas inventor now comes to the front with a machine with which he hopes to crush out the national nul sance and in of his scheme he has the following to say the weevil commences ts ravages upon the cotton plants by depositing its eggs in the cotton squares or bolls the squares and young bolls drop from the cotton and collect in the law cst part of the surface between the rows of the plants and from these bolls full grown weevils in great abundance will be produced in about seventeen days and attack and des troy the to prevent the hatching of the weevil my invention Is directed to the production of means for destroying their eggs and the weevil by crushing them where they lie upon the ground for this purpose I 1 have produced sheet iron crushers preferably con necked together in pairs and drair straddling the rows of plants each crusher of convex form shaped like a shovel and weighted by carrying the driver whose seat Is mounted direct upon it each crusher is drawn be tween the rows and will grind the egg and weevils to such an extent as tc reduce the quantity of the weevil hatched to a comparatively small num her the crushers are attached to an suitable wheeled frame drawn by a pair of horses As the killing of the weevil egg Is by crushing them the crushers art worked between the rows at intervals commencing about the time the wee begin to lay their agga egga and repeat ing the operation several times abou every eight or ten days it being under stood that the ravages of the weevil commence about the middle of june or the first of july |