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thai ill sc'clions \\lu'ic' llir alliiupl was niadi' lo con- 

 tinue colloii raisiiiif in Ihc old way, tlie yield has often 

 l)een re<hiced anywhere up lo 90 per cenl. ol Ihe nor- 

 mal crop during liie lirsl lew yi-ars of llu- weevil's 

 presence. In liie seclions near Ihe (lull" Coasl havini* 

 1<S or more inches ol" rainlali in June, July and Aui^usl, 

 colhni has heen i)ractically ahandoned. (Iradually Ihe 

 methods of raising collon hecanie adjusted lo liie iie- 

 cessilies of the case. In seclions liaving less summer 

 rain Call, olher crops hesides collon are grown increas- 

 ingly, and the collon crop has in some seclions regain- 

 ed ils normal size, especially where the June lo August 

 rainlali is less than 12 indies. The last condilion of 

 the cotton grower is belter than the first, but the path 

 of |)rogress has led through several years of loss antl 

 suffering. Through the accumulated knowledge and 

 experience of i'\])erts who have been fighting the wee- 

 vil, and the demonstrations of many thousands of 

 planters, w:- now know that through much of the in- 

 fested area the weevil can be controlled and cotton 

 culture continued even mor(> successfully than has 

 been usual in the ])asl. A study of the effect of the 

 weevil upon cotton production may be found in Ala- 

 bama Experiment Station Bulletin No. 178. 



Xot A Hopeless Fight. Bui to continue growing cot- 

 ton successfully, several improvements in our agricul- 

 tural practice are imperative. Some of the steps in a 

 leliable system of fighting the weevil successfully will 

 be briefly outlined in this bulletin. This outline can- 

 not even mention many points which might be profit- 

 ♦ibly followed, but is intended to show only the prin- 

 ciples and some of the special i)ractices which have 

 proven effective in other sections and which will in 

 time become generally adopted here. 



Begin Fight Now. — Shall we not begin this fight at 

 onc(\ rather than first lose a large part of two or three 

 crops and then be forced to adopt these ideas? Do 

 not think that the weevils will fail to find your cotton 

 fields or that they w ill do any less damage therein than 

 they have done elsewhere under similar conditions 

 of soil, climate, etc., unless you make a jxlter fight 

 against them than has been made generally elsewhere-. 



Zones of Injury. — It is true that weevil injury varies 

 in different setions but it is ((uile fairly constant under 

 the same set of environmental and cultural conditions. 

 Study your own situation and compare it with other 



