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cotrnties in this State may then become partially infested. 

 It will require only about three years more for the weevil 

 to spread over the entire State and to reach ^A^estern Geor- 

 gia. Therefore we may consider it practically certain that 

 throughout the western third of Alabama by the summer of 

 1911, through the central third by 1912, and through the 

 eastern third by 1913, and in each case constantly after 

 those dates, every cotton planter will have to reckon with 

 the presence of the boll weevil and some degree of injury 

 hj it. 



In the second place, we must consider that the boll weevil 

 is liahle to be brought into the State at any time ahead of 

 the general infestation by the various methods of trahspor- 

 tation, principally by railroads, with persons, household 

 goods, cotton and its products, or with any other articles 

 which may contain or shelter them. This danger naturally 

 Increases as the line of infestation approaches more closely 

 In numerous instances in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and 

 elsewhere it has been clearly established that the weevil has 

 been carried long distances in shipments of cotton seed from 

 infested areas although fortunately it has not yet happened 

 an the direction of uninfested territory. Infested cotton 

 rproduced in the edge of the infested area has been hauled 

 considerable distances beyond for ginning and planters 

 bringing their cotton from other directions have carried 

 away weevil-infested seed with them. Tenants and cotton 

 pickers moving from infested to uninfested territory are 

 very liable to carry weevils with them and thus establish 

 new centers of infestation. These are among the considera- 

 tions which have made necessary the establishment and 

 strict enforcement of quarantine measures to guard against 

 the accidental introduction of the weevil. 



QUARANTINE REGULATIONS AGAINST THE BOLL 



WEEVIL. 



Alabanui passed such a lavr in 1903, and placed the en- 

 forcement of the act in the hands of the State Board of 

 Horticulture, as at that time there was no special Ent©- 



