Word: weevils
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...place calcium arsenate (boll weevil poison) on the free list...
Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been the inroads upon the cotton plant by the insect pest, that including the present year, there have been short crops for three years running. Slack demand and low prices can account in part for the small 8,000,000-bale crop of 1921; and to a much lesser extent for the 9,000,000-bale crop of 1922. During the past year, however...
Despite the high price of cotton, the average Southern planter has not benefited by it; his losses on weevil-ridden acreage have more than offset his profits...
...over the world there is a pressing demand for cheap cotton. In the past, America has supplied this demand, but unless headway can be made against the boll weevil menace, this country can produce only high-priced cotton...
...particularly in South Africa, Egypt, Australia. Brazil, which years ago gave up cotton for other crops, is now planning to benefit from current soaring prices by again sowing her fields in cotton. It is apparent, therefore, that unless Government experts under the Department of Agriculture can shortly solve the weevil problem, the American cotton planter will face uncertain and precarious profits; while if the solution of the problem is long delayed, he will face international competition such as is at the bottom of the grain growers' dissatisfaction today...