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Show Bi Professor L C. Howard of tho B U.' S. Department of Agricuttuic, Bi lias just returned from the South, B where he studied crop foes and parasitc3 He thinVs that an effective ef-fective enemy of the cotton ball weevil has been found in "a lirge reddish-brown mil" w'dcli prelects pre-lects the cotton in GaulciiiuU' These ants spread' themselves over cotton fields four or five to a plant, and busy themselves in eat-in eat-in tr the destructive, weevil. Wheth er this tropical inject can learn to hibernate ut- far north as our Gulf States is the problem still unsolved. un-solved. It lives in subterranean tunnels, three feet under ground. The find has excited lively hope? in the breast of the Secretary of Agriculture. |