Word: bollings
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...three main causes are typical of all Negro migrations to the North: 1) the boll weevil; 2) the recruiting agents for labor and the attractive offers of high wages in Northern industries, 3) the growing resentment against unfair treatment of colored workers in the South...
...Gases have been developed for the destruction of the cotton boll-weevil, the wood-boring teredo, various species of disease-bearing mosquitoes, barnacles on ship bottoms and other insect and mollusk pests...
...cent high record of 1920, this is the highest price for cotton since 1876, but producers having sold practically all their holdings, it is principally the factors who will profit by these recent high prices. While the latter have been occasioned by mill purchases, it is the boll weevil rather than " inflation " which is fundamentally responsible...
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, suggested to the National Cotton Conference for Boll Weevil Control that inasmuch as insects are guided by smell, it might be possible to destroy the boll weevil by baiting traps with the scent of the female. If the method could be developed it might be made effective against the house fly, mosquito, ant, and other pests...