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Strike or Boll...
Ballots & Boll Weevils. Gene Talmadge had long followed the career of Georgia's mellifluous, rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson. Gene approved of Watson's Populist movement and its appeal to country voters, and set out along the Watson trail to accomplish similar triumphs. The Georgia farmers of the 1920s were being battered by the boll weevil, would soon be battered harder by the Depression. Gene established himself as their champion. He filed for state commissioner of agriculture in the 1926 election, swept out a corrupt incumbent. When he could spare time, Herman helped by tacking up posters...
Many cotton pests, including thrips, aphids, spider mites and cutworms, are controlled by the internal poison. Boll weevils are killed if they show up during the period of the poison's effectiveness, which is three to seven weeks. Big advantage of the internal poison is that it protects the whole young plant, while sprays and dust may leave some parts unprotected...
...pamphlet's conclusions are based on a boll taken among American students and students form nine other nations in 1950. The American sampling was composed of 481 Harvard men, 97 Radcliffe women, and 215 students from Miami college of Ohio...
...Dancing Bear, by Frances Faviell, and Acquainted with the Night, by Heinrich Boll. Two exciting accounts, one fact, the other fiction, of Germany and its postwar tragedies (TIME...