Word: bolling
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...somewhat similar fate may not be in store for our cotton planters. Owing to three successive short crops, the world price for cotton is extraordinarily high, and there is every encouragement for foreigners to undertake cotton growing. The scarcity of American cotton has been due to the boll weevil and the shortage of labor in the cotton belt...
...cooperation with the Army Air Service, the U. S. Department of Agriculture has had most successful results in fighting the boll weevil. Aeroplanes specially fitted for this work are now to be built. The poison is to be sprayed from under the wings, The aeroplanes must fly slower than any commercial planes ever built, 25 miles an hour, so that spraying may be thorough and unhurried...
...That effort won the commendation of LaFollette. Otherwise Senator Smith is not known as especially radical. His place in the Senate, which he has held since 1908, came about largely from his extensive part in organizing the Southern Cotton Association. He is a cotton Senator, a fighter of the boll weevil. Despite his husky voice, he is comparatively mild mannered. He has been Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee before - from January, 1918, to March...
...short but very cold wave which swept the Southeastern States, especially Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, has at least blown someone some good. Discouraged cotton planters through that section, who, during the 1923 crop season, saw the boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure...
...place calcium arsenate (boll weevil poison) on the free list...