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FLORIDA BUGGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
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Issued once every three months. Free to all members of the 
Florida Entomological Society. 
Subscription price to those who are not members of the So- 
ciety—$1.00 per year in advance; 25c per copy. 
EXTERMINATE THE BOLL WEEVIL 
A late number of the Quarterly Bulletin of the State Plant 
Board bears an editorial of unusual interest to entomologists. 
In brief the suggestion is to exterminate the boll weevil from 
the United States by enacting a “‘no cotton” year. From the 
entomological side the problem is an easy one. The difficulty 
is psychological. -To tell a man that he cannot raise cotton 
interferes with his ‘‘rights”. But, as the Commissioner pointed 
out, by the time the war is over we will have been so thoroly 
““Hooverized” and ‘‘McAdooized” that we will not think so much 
of our “rights”. The fact that the suggestion comes from the 
man who has practically “canned” Citrus Canker (seems as if 
it should be spelled Kanker to link it to other undesirables) will 
give the suggestion weight. Should a few plants of cotton escape 
the inspectors and leave a few colonies of the weevils, their 
extermination will be an easy matter as compared with that of 
Citrus Canker. 
Our members will be glad to read in this issue of the con- 
tinued prosperity of the Lee County Branch. 
NOTES BY THE SECRETARY TREASURER 
The annual dues of the Society were raised to one dollar, be- 
ginning with 1918, at the March meeting of the Society. This 
increase was made necessary in order to have a reserve fund 
available for the publishing of THE BUGGIST, in case other in- 
come should at any time prove insufficient. Each issue of THE 
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