Louisiana — Circular No. 16. 



to have a seed bed as nearly perfect as possible, and practicing 

 crop rotation, the yield of cotton per acre can be very greatly 

 increased with the boll weevil present. It can be doubled over 

 the yields of former years by all, trebled by many, and even 

 quadrupled by the few most expert and intelligent. IMy own 

 experiments have led inevitably to these conclusions. In other 

 words, I wish to state in the most emphatic terms that, compre- 

 hensively viewed, the eradication of the Texas fever cattle ticl- 

 will more than offset the invasion of the boll iveevil, concerning 

 the production of cotton. 



Rid our country of the tick, and a live stock industry Avill 

 Jul low in the cotton growing states as a subsidiary industry. AVe 

 will rotate our crops, and we will grow cotton right. We will 

 grow cotton in quantities to suit the demand of the world. No 

 one need thereafter ever fear that the United States will not be 

 able to furnish what cotton the world needs. We are good for 

 thirty million bales on half the land now in cotton culture, pro- 

 vided we are rid of the cattle tick. 



America's greatest export need not be put in jeopardy ever 

 if we exterminate the cattle tick. The extermination of the Texas 

 fever tick will be notice to all the world that we will have ud 

 competitors in the cotton producing industry. Our bank account 

 in foreign countries will swell to greater proportions from year 

 to year, due to the ever increasing exportation of cotton; this, 

 of course, provided the cattle tick is driven from our country. 



Rid our fair land of this pest, then the South will be a cot- 

 ton country greater than ever; a country of plenty such as the 

 world has never seen. 



Cotton should and will forever remain our chief crop. It 

 is the ideal crop for the South. It is the ideal crop for a coun- 

 try's export. Its continued exportation will only make our 

 country richer with every year; for, if we should send twenty 

 million bales of cotton — pure cellulose — abroad each season, 

 equivalent to ten thousand million pounds — or even on a still 

 greater scale — we would not send along with it enough of our 

 soil fertility to decrease our yield any for a thousand years to 

 <;ome. But our ships would return with the foreigners' gold to 



