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...leads the world. India is next with two-fifths as much. Texas leads the U. S. Nowhere is there exultation about the crop. The hopper flea has been nibbling at the fruits, retarding their growth and causing the stalks to grow rank. At present the boll weevil is feared. Texas seems in the best situation-rapid growth, favorable weather, fairly good fruiting, some insects, some rankness. Arkansas was doing well until rains came. Tennessee needed rain, got it. The Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi report poor fruiting, yet fair prospects. Louisiana and Oklahoma have altogether too much moisture. Growths are going...
...Court likewise held invalid a law of Washington which was used in quarantining the state against alfalfa shipments (which it was feared might bring in the alfalfa weevil), because the Court held that the state law conflicted with an Act of Congress placing the power to establish such quarantines with the Secretary of Agriculture...
...that follow? Is one responsible for his name or his nickname? The reference to the 14th and 15th Amendments is as applicable to all the Congressmen and Senators of all southern states as to Mr. Upshaw. If Mr. Upshaw could find an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil, might not this also be true of many others? And Dr. Butler, if encaged in such an occupation, would not be furnishing an example of discourtesy to the youth of the land. He is not needed at Columbia...
...causes in the decrease in the number of farms are listed as: 1) ravages of the boll weevil, 2) migration northward of southern Negroes, 3) a series of dry seasons in part of the Northwest, 4) the consolidation of farms into larger units, 5) abandonment of farms because of adverse price conditions. The states showing chief decreases...
...enforcement above a whisper seems to show a lack of any sense of humor, since the enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendment would certainly de prive him of a seat in the House of Representatives and give him an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil on a Georgia cotton plantation...