Show r BOLL auf no alfo befher d anevil ec 1 1 id t W 10 1 0 0 7 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN day the bugs bug 11 will get at us it if we don I 1 watch out so may bay the entomologists and other scientists ch say my chermi tile bug men an are am quite agh right tt hat they the mein 1 Is that at ta the locusts g slop 1 pr pers b beetles borers w wee vils and other pests pest of the insect world three threaten to eat us out at of houie hanie rod and home id and ift e ua 1 to death they hold that the I insect sect world 1 ie mess man a molt dugene danger oua enemy so dangerous that only by eternal lance and warfare win will the human to race be able to survive haus jo the meantime uncle be sam lot entomologist mo logist Is authority tor for the official grate statement ramt that a billion dollar annual loss IM is inflicted indicted upon our gardens fields se orchards chard a and forests forest by bun ban dred dind or more or will imported acted insect pest mind you tancle sam says mays imported peets ficare offhand one would old may eay that the earliest ot of these imported posts pests WON wa the fless an fly which w was brought over or 1 in the th I 1 Reo revolution lution by the mercenaries hired hind by george III from german prince prie we treated the hes bes siana she augh hyou rea remember derall r shot hat george washington did to the them at treat trenton a o oad and the fly they brought in their straw aw packing has since destroyed dearm arm ad enough et at our me wheat to pay the tha german war 4 debt a bt thus there has been 4 succession of these them imported pests pest over ever since ince so nowadays uncle be sam has in a wall army at work fighting them in the agrical burst department tor for example he be be has established the human bureaus of plant ind industry and ant entomology and the insecticide and f fungicide ung ickle board through the them b be watches ill tha s ports to keep new pests out act ele ee cours the earth tor for pest resisting plant panta and it for far lower inserts that prey on posts pests that prey upon us he experiments with insect poisons A 23 acre farm which includes I insect act tto pests t to among its chief crops Is operated it at vienna V va the american people pay some 40 a year tor for bo inneo brides and nd fungicides with which to combat crop pilots pests fungous growths growth and nd household vermin at the vienna zd farm the pests are am permitted to reach their full measure of 0 destructiveness whereupon they are subjected to treatment with commercial insecticides and aad fungicides to determine the efferd effective dees bess of euch each preparations right eight DOW I 1 th there 1 B big controversy going m n over the importation ot of par nar esus bulba bulb uncle sam saim says that after january 1 importation will be re restricted feted I 1 because these them tr bulbs bulb at are ftc frequent t and abundant car tiers rise ot at ano peats past bulb flies bud and the european amm eel worm th the formal eata at eat onions and d the latter eat onions clover rye ryan onta into and it point potatoes both he have sj 1 ready ad gained a foothold here of all these theme ported imported in pests past ft the one om to get most frequently under the lime if tight to is the be me mexican gotten cotton boll weevil scarcely Bc arcely a newspaper but has news ot of it its doing dolanga or shot la in belt being g done to it it par for ex example pl as an I 1 item ot of current news is in that an agricultural extension service suney shown the cotton fields of north carolina to be more mom heavily to infested this year than lust I 1 in boine wa case cases as high as 50 per par tent cent another tells tell of the dw discovery eavery ot of a germicide that will rid the south ot of the pest by a prisoner pamer 1 in the atlanta ade federal ra 1 penitentiary who h had it be been a baltimore scientist of note A third Is I 1 that hat the chemical warfare service of the united bullied states army has been turned loose lease on the boll weevil iab order ardem to sad some bonse pj poison that will put it out of business for sit all time probably one am reason to lor the persistent let throwing ol of the lian limelight 1 I on I 1 the he iroll all weevil I 1 Is the fact that cotton off u I 1 la 0 one a of our big crops some flows years year it equals in value in the corn crop the cotton it belt extend kroull rom the art atlantic be to TO texas and ad oklahoma pro probably bably it t will be extended dear clear to the pacific and this american belt grows grow 64 54 per cent cast of 1 the wor worlds ad cotton our exports ot of cotton are 6 about twice t those n ag of the rest met of the world and we use nse SO 30 per cent ot of the worlds rid a production the boll u weevil U grew gran dla 11 1 IB a gray insect about the at site ot f a housefly both adults and U grubs b 1 in jure jum the cotton cotta the fo cormer or by food feed 1 ing 19 9 puncturing and laying eggs the latter a ter by feeding on an the contents coat to of a tb the hot bolls I 1 th the boll weevil first eat efured red the th united star states from mexico in 1892 getting foothold in donth western texas infested infestation spread slowly hot but surely burely climatic conditions ediff nd iff made ad I 1 OZ 1015 a year of catastrophe in the antt matter ot if integration infestation no less the than square us are miles of cotton raising tarri territory t y were reported in bad shape all t told I 1 d are the I 1 boll oil weevil has haa caused the too of many mance milli million OR holes bate of c orion cotton also it has largely reduced at times the area ran devoted devote to notton cotton and yet th flit merican marine boll 1 la it ita own way a top as a crop destroyer be baa not proved OR an banded evil to all 11 II of the cotton raising south 0 on the contrary one alm Alm alabama annat ins town I 1 Is actually grateful to lt it bud and has shown that gratitude by er erecting inting in the pub lie square a mo mot monument t in ill its ita honor ahls town 1 Is enterprise and the in on as ill the re monument cosat reads do 1 in prof profound no appreciation of at T TUB BOLL W VIL As and it wh what t II 11 has do done am the th recent herald of f P proa per ity athla 1 lira li ra I 1 la erected ted by the Cit liena of f cotte calf county coast alb alabama back in 1915 1015 1 cotton was king 1 tn coffee callao county then came the boll weevil and aad cut cat down donn the yield field CO 00 per par cent in 1016 the tha whole countryside was waa wrecked and ruined the wolf I 1 was at the door for planters knew a nothing of div diversified I 1 milled crops and the boll weevil had destroyed king icing cotton writes write carl W diamen la in good hard were ware new york but the city ind and the tha beat in men got get together they decided same nome thing let be do ad d kakky thoy daw farm era ie a vine K the th farm and the men bocking 1 to the th cities pa they a aaa dying Enlar enterprise ps S so abe they b began n pe preaching alg di in 1 alon f for r tha he fart fart if time in the history of I 1 that ecklon within willits I 1 one year C coffee fc a county broke the world ld ricord 1 in the yield laid of be peanuts to for lallar reft the ur I 1 dollar ad anai cent for far hogi hall fand it cattle alopez the a farmers rate baled 4 their own we hv hay corn ti it othar brad inc home con u M nept atlan ion which they bocht a pre y when they raland lead only ly cotton coffee free county usi haa I 1 now be beame ft do flour falling cattle aind ad ho hog market aal well a k peanut market at alabama a be now at aella to west before are it bought only by sea and 1919 1925 this abi entire lm ecklon if had learnd the lebahn of di ift alon A r penult it tha be whole county war calia rollene I 1 in it was not not until after ill tha coming of if tho the bug that en enterprise maill saw paved dread treat and hit bilde fit wib walka P paved ved at 1 I 1 coat ot at inacy thou a flanda do of delta th the hardware hard wara at toroa did aadal radal beat buel neB aind in tha ame was 11 true of othar 1 1 ores mares small came to th city and it the post bam office acne from fourth claar Is to it e clabby handsome dalm aff wit building I 1 1 wa adf ad are hurh church he ana it beautiful ll h bonns we were erected all a beckma 1 I a the far farmer are learned leaned 1 to ralie lnE oa aid badoa cotton 1 IB it torti that that on one of tha ar principal arla la create of at thle little city fly we waa raad erected I 1 an fn december am of il a monumental w wi fuw fu w to the we memory of f 1 the he deama boll we weavil acell T ahta a monument at and led today KB the a only 1 mr monument met ver or erected to the tha memory of at a peat on the A amerlean Amerl can continent I 1 th tha wah much dr arcaded dd boll 1 weevil I ar proved 4 to be ba ft I 1 law 1 in ill dl of when wave it was waa disco discovered end that calcium amount nr senate we hafl juat about a th the it bat I 1 combative bell aidt the bull boll weevil thou thon hands sands ot of remedies were taken into the south be some of them the were m wow wo than the boll weevil unel uncle S sam a in board was less kept b busy y living tile the mu remedies ladle now new they have been bass pretty it well regulated resu so all 11 the tha cotton planters are busy these theme days dusting dealing their fields by man power mul mule power bud and even by airplane TV ita a fair guess game that the bull boll weevil it will come to violent talent eod it before hot long awl and by pas poison maj idaj gon gen kram amos A fries frie head bead of the chemical warfare service of at the army he has established u research at ar the georgia ez purl out station at griffin he ha he haa rott cotton I 1 plants tie ile Is paying a cent at plan apiece for live vI garow ill holl 1 in 1 lots of a th thousand di or wo more he ila has lit at his remained command a asteriou mister loua lot of deadly pol poisons nat and gases goese developed in tile the world war and lie he Is out to get the boll |