THE BOLL-WEEVIL
COTTON'S GREAT ENEMY.
(DNITED PRESS AESOCIATION.—COrTRKHT ) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
NEW YORK, 26th October.. ±ne national conference on the bolliveevil at New Orleans adopted a programme for combating the pest, whicli experts declare can be controlled by the intelligent application of arsenic. Governor Parker, of Louisiana, states that the use of sulphur is more advisable, ihe speakers declared that 97 per cent, of the cotton-growing area in the United States was already infested, >nd that more than 30 per cent, of the cotton was destroyed annually. The Federal Government is being called upon to extend its aid. The pest is being declared a Rational evil with the possibilities of dire consequences to the nation as a whole. Already 933 experiment stations for the study of. the weevil have been established and the conference expressed its intention to establish ,5000 more stations during the year. !
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 7
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