Show A EVIL P Pest In off Altogether r Evil an-Evil a an Evil k Z S 3 L ww S v yv hP M r HI HII 1 a t I 31 17 1 0 11 b s y 1 i JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN day the bugs will get getus us us us-It If we dont don't watch out So say Buy the tho entomologists And other scientists say the bug men are quite right What they mean Is II that the locusts grasshoppers pers beetles borers weevils wee wee- ee- ee Alls vils and other pes pests s of the world threaten to eat us out of at use flee and home and starve us to ath th They hold that the Insect world worldman's mans mana most dangerous enemy enemy so so erous that only by eternal I and unceasing warfare will the theuman uman Inman i race be able to survive In la the meantime Uncle Sam Ento- Ento Is authority for the official that a dollar billion annual o oa Is la Inflicted upon our gardens elds ids orchards and aud forests by a hun bun I Id red d or more Imported Insect pests Mind Bind you ou Uncle Sam Sam says Import d pe t. t Offhand one would say that thatto to le earliest of ot these Imported pests ru as the fly lIy which was wal over In the tl Revolution by the y mercenaries n hired by Dy George Hi III from fromI I i German prince We treated the liesl lies lies- lane r l ia yoU rough rough you remember what targe earge rge Washington did to them at and tenton-and and the fly they brought In heir straw packing has baa since de- de troyed enough of ot our wheat to pay he to German w war ar debt There has been a succession of at these Imported ported pests pesta ever since So now now- toys Sam has hal a small army at rork wk lighting fighting them In the Ural department for example he has the bureaus of plant Indus Indus- 7 and end entomology and the Insecticide IDd M ad fungicide board Through them theme e Retches fetches the ports to keep new eats out lie He scours the earth for forest est plants and for Insects W hat Prey on pests that prey upon us ie e experiments with Insect poisons A 23 acre I-acre acre farm which Includes Insect fits ella among Its chief crops Is operated It t VIenna Va a n The American people JJ iy tome some a year ear for Insect ides i end and fungicides with which to tot Imbat t at crop t pests e ts fungous growths IDd arm JL ld um vermin At the Vienna the pests lire permitted to reach heir run full measure of ot destructiveness th they are subjected to treat treat- eat nent With comin Insecticides and to the effective effective- 51 of ot of wen such preparations RIght now flON there thre Is a big controversy wing tn n o over o er the Importation of nari nerla nar- nar la sus us i bulbs uncle Sam says say that ler January y 1 Importation will be be Why n Because se these are frequent and anel abundant car car- carre re rs ot of two pests Jests bulb flies and 1 the r eel The former forme 1 eats ta dons and tho latter huter onions clover dover 1 0 oats and potatoes potatoes n Both th have ala al al- edy gained a foothold here Ot of all these thes o Imported pests pest tho the one onet get rel most frequently under th the lime lime- rae rae- bt it t l Is the el MexIcan cotton colton bo boll weevil eely ts a newspaper but ut has hns news newl of t dotage doings For or what Is being done to example an nn Item of current eWI es e's Is e that un an agricultural a extension r r service survey shows the cotton fields of North Carolina to toIe be Ie more heavily Infested this year than last In some BOme cases easel as high as 50 riO per cent Another tells of ot the tho discovery of a germicide that will rid the South of the pest by a prisoner In the Atlanta Federal penitentiary who had been a Baltimore scientist of note A th third rd is that the chemical warfare service of the United States army has bas been turned loose on the boll weevil with orders to find some poison polson that will wUl put it out of business for all time Probably one reason for the persistent persist persist- ent throwing of the limelight on the boll weevil is the fact that Wat cotton is isone isone ISone one of our big crops Some years yeaTS It equals In value the corn crop The cotton belt extends from the Atlantic to Texas and Oklahoma probably it will be extended clear to the Pacific And this American belt grows 54 64 percent per percent cent of the worlds world's cotton Our exports ex ax ports of cotton are about twice those of the rest of the tho world and we use SO 80 per cent of the worlds world's production The boll boH weevil grandis gran gran- dis is a n gray Insect about the size of ot ofa ota ofa a housefly Both adults and grubs Injure injure In in- jure the cotton the cotton the former by feedIng feeding feed feed- Ing puncturing and laying eggs the latter by feeding on the contents of ot the bolls The boll weevil first entered the United States from Mexico in 18 1802 Z getting etting n a foothold in southwestern Texas Infestation spread slowly but hut surely Climatic conditions made 1015 1115 a year of catastrophe In the matter of infestation no Ir less s than 10 square miles of raising cotton-raising territory were reported in bad shape All told the boll weevil has caused the loss of ot many million bales bules of cotton also It has bas largely reduced nt ot times limes the area arel devoted dented to cotton And yet jet et the Mexican boll weevil In InUs Its Us own way a n top us WI a crop destroyer has not ed proved an on unmixed evil to all aU of the raising cotton South On the contrary one Alabama town Is actually grateful to It and has hos shown that gratitude by erecting In the public pub puh- lie lic square a monument In its honor This town is iv and the Inscription Inscription inscription In In- on the monument reads reudE In Profound Appreciation of ot THE TILE BOLL DOLL WEEVIL And What It ft Has liss Done Don ai all th the Herald of Prosperity This Monument J In Is 1 Erected By Dy the Citizens of Enterprise Coffee County Alabama Back Dock In 1015 Cotton Was King ling In n Coffee county Then came the boll weevil and cut down the yield 00 CO per iler cent In 1010 1110 the whole countryside was wrecked and ruined The wolf was at the door dour for planters knew m l nothing of diversified crops and ond the boll weevil had destroyed King Cotton Writes Carl W. W In Good Hardware Hard liard ware New York But Bat the city officials and the businessmen business men got together They decided some Borne something thing must be ba done dons and done quickly They saw lIaw farmers leaving the farms and the young men flocking to th the cities They saw laW a dying Enterprise So they began preaching for tion-for for the first time In the history of that section Within one year Coffee Coffee Cof Cof- fee county broke the worlds world's record In Inthe Inthe Inthe the yield of peanuts for a 1 similar liar area and also In the return In dollars donars an and cents for hogs and cattle shipped The Th farmers farmen raised their own hay corn potatoes and other produce for home horn consumption w which t they ey bought boght Ire pre pee when they ral raised ea only onty cotton Coffee county has hall now become a flourishing flourishing flour flour- cattle and hog market as wen well as ae a peanut market Alabama now sells eells to the Middle West Before Defore I It bought only By fly 1918 1918 1915 and IOU 1819 this thle entire section had l learned arned learned the lesson leason of tion As All a result the whole county was rolling In prosperity It was wae no not until after the coming of the bug that tha Enterprise saw paved streets and III sidewalks side side- de walks paved walks paved at a cost of many thousands thousands thou thou- sands of dollars The hardware stores store did a flourishing business and the same sam was wan true of other stores Several small smal factories came oame to the city and the pos post postoffice office rose from fourth class to 0 second class Handsome school buildings an and fine churches hospitals and beautiful homes were erected All An because th the farmers learned to raise raille something be ba sides cotton Is It surprising then theft that on one of the principal streets o othis or of this thle little city was erected In December Decem Decem- b br ber r of 1919 a monumental fountain to the memory of the Mexican boll bon weevil wee wee- vil This monument stands toda today a athe all as the only monument ever erected to th the memory of ot a pe pest t on the American continent The dreaded nuch bon boll weevil proved to be a blessing In die guise When it was discovered lIscO that calcium arsenate was Just about the b best st combative com com- bathe against the boll weevil thousands thou thousands sands of ot remedies i were taken Into the South Some of ot th them 11 were worse than the boll weevil Uncle Sams Sam's in in- board was kept busy remedying reme- reme dying the remedies Now they have been ben pretty well regulated So all the cotton planters lire are busy these days das dusting their fields by man power mule power and even by airplane Its It's a fair guess that the boll weevil will come to u II violent end nd before long and and by poison polson Maj Jen Gln en Amos A A. A Fries head of ot the chemical warfare service of ot the army has established a research laboratory nt lit the Georgia experiment ex ex- pertinent station nt at Griffin lIe He has cotton plan plants Is lIe He Is II paying a cen cent apiece for I the live vigorous boll holl weevils weevil In lo lots s of a thousand or more lIe He hus hits husat husat at his hla command a mysterious lot o ot of l deadly poisons and gases de del eloped In Inthe Inthe inthe the World war And Anti he I. I H tg out to ge get the boll weevil |