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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...