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Very obviously, the much-heralded 1925 cotton crop has been a keen disappointment, owing mainly to the Texas drought. But consumption is on the mend, and losses from the boll weevil have this year apparently run second in importance to losses caused by the weather...
...Communism in America is comparable to the boll-weevil in the cotton fields. Both are importations and equally injurious...
...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. Other troubles have appeared. "Army worms...
...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...