Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explaining how these specimens may best be caught, the bulletin declares, "The audit winged biting mosquitoes, may be collected most, conveniently when they have some to rest upon the surface of a window pane or wall. Take a widemouthed bottle and place in it a tuft of cotton saturated with a small amount of "Carbona" cleaning fluid. Place the bottle quickly over the mosquito which will be soon overcome by the fumes. Then transfer it to a small pill box-between two layers of cotton." A pill box with several specimens may then be sent by mail without fear...
...have just come across a new kind of missionary report. It is entitled: 1) "Report of Three Years Cotton Improvement Work." 2) "Observations of the Behavior of Cotton Plants." That may sound dry if you do not happen to be a scientist but it does not sound as dry as the little...
...gray, portly, 63, wearer of double glasses, comes of an old New Bedford family. At 16 he was at work in a New Bedford shoe factory. Later he went away from New Bed- ford to go into law and politics. Now he runs, on the side, a few cotton mills in New Bedford...
...cotton trade is wondering if a 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...
...rate, foreign countries are experimenting with cotton growing. The British mill interests are encouraging it in Egypt and India. Argentina recently brought in an experimental crop of 120,000 bales?a trivial amount now compared with the huge American crop. Nevertheless the Argentines, flushed with their successful competition with our wheat growers, are becoming enthusiastic over the possibilities in Argentine cotton. Thus far the boll weevil has not appeared there, but the customary labor shortage is considered to preclude any very great cotton production in the Argentine, at least in the near future...