business to also watch what I am dishing up, I want to be 

 shown. 



The conchuela is already officially admitted to be a first 

 class pest of cotton. My plan of controlling the cotton boll- 

 weevil, and also the bollworm, provides for the use of poultry 

 the year around, and includes the use of a trappatch of late- 

 sown cotton. These plants in the latter part of the season, be- 

 cause of their succulency, concentrate the weevils, and will 

 also concentrate the conchuela and allied bugs, where poultry- 

 can pick them off. This, then, usually obviates the need, of 

 attacking the bugs on the older plants with a hotairblast torch. 



Much is said on pages 28 to 32, about natural enemies. 

 The cold fact is, the pest has persistently, rapidly increased, in 

 spite of them, calling thus for more efficient means of control 

 by man. The means of artificial control given on pages 32 and 

 33 are all impracticable. 



''The obvious method for controlling the grain buk is the 

 destruction of their adults when they are concentrated in their 

 hibernating quarters. This is best accomplished in the late 

 autumn, during the winter or in the early spring by plowing 

 under or burning all weeds and rubbish in and about culti- 

 vated fields ... In many instances, however, the grain bug 

 adults migrate from considerable distances, and this circum- 

 stance necessitates a systematic clean-up community campaign 

 in badly infested areas . . ." (p. 32). 



Nothing doing, and for several reasons : Dr. A. W. Mor- 

 rill admits that mesquite is a stronghold to the conchuela. 

 Why not, then, such and similar growth also to the grain bugr 



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