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...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...
...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...
...Chemical Warfare Service is giving serious attention to the 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...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?Drama in a Paris garret, revolving about a modern Cinderella whose wicked big sister beats her. The worm turns and Helen Menken flagellates her evil relative with a blacksnake whip in a moment of thrilling melodrama...
...brother manager and little sister Equity. Should the efforts of the dramatists prove unavailing, they propose to organize as a labor union and join the A. F. of L. Then, if either actor or manager should try to start anything with them-well, just let them try it! Another worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among the pieces which Oliver Morosco intends to try out on the Coast this summer is one called Schemers by William Irving Sirovich-a satire upon New York theatrical critics. The chief characters are Alan Gale, A. Wood Brown, James Corbett and Alex Olcott...