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considered, it was finally decided to make a compromise with the 

 planters. This provided that the state would make no further prose- 

 cutions provided the planters would sign a formal agreement includ- 

 ing the following points: (1) To turn over the seed and lint produced 

 to the state, so that the former could be crushed under supervision and 

 the latter exported; (2) to clean the fields thoroughly, depositing 

 money at the rate of $20 per bale for each bale produced to guarantee 

 that this work would be done properly; and (3) to agree not to plant 

 cotton again during the term of any prohibition against it, and to sub- 

 mit voluntarily to an injunction from which there would be no appeal. 

 After some little effort, all of the 134 persons who had planted cotton 

 in violation of law signed the agreement, and the crop is now being 

 disposed of under safeguards. It is considered that this plan is alto- 

 gether the best one which could have been followed in view of the difii- 

 culties the state had encountered, and the actual fact that a large and 

 valuable property had developed. The work of executing the agree- 

 ment is being carried on by the state and Federal agencies cooperating, 

 and has met with few important obstacles. 



Volunteer Cotton in Non-Cotton Zone 



During the season the Federal Horticultural Board has assumed a 

 definite share of the work of maintaining a non-cotton zone in that it 

 undertook to destroy all of the volunteer cotton growing therein. 

 Such cotton appeared in considerable quantities in the majority of the 

 fields throughout the non-cotton zone. The work of finding, collect- 

 ing, inspecting and destroying this volunteer cotton was begun in June 

 and continued for a period of six weeks. It was found, however, that 

 some volunteer plants appeared during the summer, and it became 

 necessary in September again to go over the entire territory-. The 

 district was divided into sections placed in charge of different men who 

 employed local labor and collected the volunteer cotton plants. In all 

 cases these plants were taken to central points where all of the fruit was 

 given most careful examination by inspectors trained to find the pink 

 boUworm or evidences of its work. In this way over 3,000,0;)0 volun- 

 teer cotton plants and the fruit on them have been examined. In 

 many cases these plants came from fields where infestation was deter- 

 mined to exist last year. The results up to the present time have been 

 altogether negative. Not a trace of the insect has been detected. 



In a single case a few plants were allowed to grow in a field which was 

 infested in 1917. This was near Smiths Point in Chamljers County, 

 where much the heaviest infestation found in Texas had been located 

 last year. It was easy to find l^olls with ten or twelve larvie within, 

 and at least 75 per cent of the November bolls had more or less infesta- 



