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low. In case of doubt communicate at once with the Bureau of 

 Entomology or with the entomologist of the State experiment station. 



SPECIAL TREATMENT OF SMALL AREAS. 



In some cases where, for instance, a farmer has a small area of 

 cotton growing for seed selection, it is practicable to resort to special 

 means of control that would be impossible in general field practice. 

 For the benefit of the many farmers in the infested area who are 

 beginning to improve their cotton by selection, the following sug- 

 gestions are made: The plat or plats should be far from timber, 

 hedgerows, seed storage houses, and other protection for hibernating 

 weevils. On the appearance of the earUest weevils the plats should 

 be carefully picked over by hand. This should be continued until 

 weU after the squares begin to fall. If the falling of the squares 

 continues, it will be found practicable to rake them by hand to the 

 middles or entirely outside of the plats to a bare place, where the 

 sun wiU soon destroy the larvae witliin. Of course, aU other general 

 suggestions that are applicable in the field shoidd be added to these 

 special ones. 



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