Word: weevils
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...made by the Department of Agriculture on Sept. 1 showed a marked reduction from the estimate made Aug. 1. During the intervening weeks there had been excessive rainfall in eastern and southern parts of the cotton belt, equally excessive droughts in Texas and Oklahoma, renewed activity by the boll weevil and leaf worm. As a result the"percentage condition" of the coming crop as of Aug. 25 was only 54.1%-the lowest figure ever reported by the Department of Agriculture. At this rate, the average acre under cotton will yield only 134.8 pounds...
...sharp advance of $5 a bale for spot cotton in New Orleans. The final crop harvested may, however, vary considerably from this latest forecast, according to the turn taken by various conditioning factors during the remainder of the crop season. The chief reason given for inroads made by the weevil is, that heavy rains in much of the belt have washed from the cotton plants the calcium arsenate placed there to protect them against the pest...
...unclassified insect appeared in Rapides Parish, La., and is damaging cotton on numerous plantations. It is neither a boll weevil nor an army worm, and the state entomologist, Prof. T. H. Jones, is investigating...
...problem of developing a gas to destroy the worm which preys on golf greens and fairways, raising little piles of dirt. The gas must hang low and kill the worm without injuring the vegetation. The Service has already developed gases noxious to various kinds of pests, including the boll weevil...
...Fashioned Piety. Governor McLeod, of South Carolina, issued a proclamation calling for a day of prayer for deliverance from the boll weevil, which threatens to destroy the state's cotton crop. While the prayers rise to heaven, airplanes are also ascending, and spraying the fields with hydrocyanic gas and calcium arsenate...