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Acting upon the knowledge of the weevil's habits ayailal)le at that 

 time, the Commission undertook the complete extermination of the 

 weevil in this limited area and undertook to prevent tl^e s|)read of 

 the insect by a rigid quarantine upon cotton seed, hulls, and seed- 

 cotton, as well as upon household goods, hay, grain, forage, cotton 

 sacks, baled cotton, etc., from the weevil-infested sections. 



The extermination of the Sabine Parish colony was u.ndertakoi 

 in the spring of 1904, by prohibiting the farmers in the aifected terri- 



AREA INFESTED DEC 1903" 

 AREA INFESTED DEC 190* 



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Fig. 3. — Area in Louisiana infested by AntJionomus yrandin in December, 1903, and iu 



December, 1904. 



tory from planting cotton, the landowners and tenants being paid 

 a cash rental by the commission and in addition being permitted to 

 grow any crop, other than cotton, that they desired. The elimina- 

 tion of cotton from this area of course resulted in eradication of the 

 weevils therefrom during 1904. 



Near Logansport an infestation covering a few acres was found 

 in the early summer of 1904, having evidently been there the aatumn 

 previous, but undetected. Extermination of this colony was accom- 



