Word: boll
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communism in America is comparable to the boll-weevil in the cotton fields. Both are importations and equally injurious...
...will be. On Aug. 1, the Government estimated this year's crop at 12,351,000 bales. But its report of the "condition" of the crop on Aug. 16 was 64.9-from which fact the trade is beginning to talk of a 13,000,000-bale crop. The boll weevil, while by no means eradicated, is not expected to be so severe a scourge to cotton this year as last. On the other hand, tropical storms sweeping up over the Cotton Belt from the Gulf over the Southern Atlantic section, accompanied by heavy rainfall, are worrying the cotton traders...
...Lord's Acre" has become an institution in the South, particularly in Georgia, because acres planted for God have produced more abundant crops and have been miraculously free from the boll weevil, potato bug, army worm and other enemies of God's people...
...signed by J. B. Goodman, Dauss King, E. L. Gay, A. M. Hubbard, J. E. Shaw, W. G. Rish, J. A. Mansfield. That year, the boll weevil did its worst. But it touched not the Lord's acres...
Nevertheless, the present high prices are a huge incentive in the attempt to overcome these difficulties of producing cotton abroad. Unless the American planter can overcome the ravages of the boll weevil, increase production and thus lower prices to something nearer a normal level, he will in a few years begin to encounter stiffer foreign competition than ever before in cotton production...