COTTON PEST.
MENACE IN,. AMERICAN CROPS.
By Telegraph—Tress Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON. October 27. A national conference on the boll weevil, held at New Orleans, adopted a programme for combating the pest, which experts declare can be controlled by the intelligent application of arsenic. Governor Parker, of Louisiana. stated that the use of sulphur was more advisable. I Speakers declared that 97 per cent of the cotton-growing area of the United States already was infested, and that more than 30 per cent of the cotton was destroyed annually. The Federal Government was called upon to extend its aid. the pest being declared a national evil, with possibilities of dire consequence to the nation Already 933 experiment stations for the study of the weevil have been esj tablished. and the conference expressed ; its intention to establish 5000 more stations during the year.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17183, 29 October 1923, Page 11
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