IT^HIS BULLETIN contains a general account of the boll- 

 -*- weevil problem. It deals with the history of the insect in 

 the United States, the damage it has done in different regions, and 

 the reasons for local variations in damage, the indications for the 

 future, the habits of the weevil in so far as they are connected with 

 control nieasures, and the means of reducing the injury it causes by 

 methods which have been tested in many experimental fields and 

 by large numbers of practical planters. 



