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Show STOP BOLL WEEVIL ADVANCE Pest Covered Mors New Territory In 1916 Than In Any Year Slnoe It Entered Texas In 1892. (By W. E. HINDS. Alabama Experiment Station;) Killing frost occurring generally throughout North Alabama about November No-vember 15, put a stop to further advance ad-vance of the boll weevil in tlat section sec-tion for 1915. This is about three weeks later than the average date for killing frost In the Tennessee valley and gave the weevils opportunity to spread somewhat farther than they could have done In an average season. The advance of the weevil for 1915 has covered more new territory than In any season since it entered Texas In 1892. In the fall of 1914 the weevil line passed through Houston county, Alabama, within a few miles of the Chattahoochee valley. The infestation infesta-tion of Houston county, however, occurred oc-curred so late in the season of 1914 that the weevils failed to maintain themselves beyond the eastern part of Geneva county, where they were found scatteringly In the early summer of 1915. Early in September, 1915, traces of boll weevil work were discovered in the vicinity of Thomasville, Ga., which was beyond the distance that the weevil would normally have reached by the end of the season. Immediate investigations In Georgia and Alabama Ala-bama revealed the fact that a remarkable remark-able movement of the weevil had occurred, oc-curred, apparently between the 20th and 23d of August. This movement had carried the weevils for more than 100 miles In an eastwardly and northeastwardly north-eastwardly direction beyond the 1914 line In Alabama. Throughout this newly Infested territory, the infestation infesta-tion evidently began at practfcally the same date, as weevil stages, eggs and grubs, found 100 miles away, were as old as those found only a short distance dis-tance beyond the 1914 line. An examination of the weather bureau bu-reau records In Alabama revealed the probable explanation for this unusual un-usual movement. It is found In a heavy wind from the west and southwest south-west which occurred on August 20, following the severe storm at Galveston, Galves-ton, Tex. |