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Similarly a new clause should be introduced into the new law 

 to overcome a difficulty which has hampered the carrying out of 

 efficient work in the past. In most ginneries piles of low grade cotton, 

 scarto, seed sweepings, and refuse from the sieves, are allowed to 

 accumulate in the yards till the end of the season and then sold to 

 small merchants for resifting. This material contains an immense 

 amount cf worms, many of which in the past have escaped treatment 

 altogether. Under the new law ginners should not be allowed to sell 

 any material containing untreated cotton seed except in special cases 

 to other ginners who have the necessary apparatus for treating the 

 seed. 



CONCLUSION. 



In addition to the measures discussed above which should be 

 enforced by the new Boll Worm Law, there are still two things to be 

 attended to by the Ministry of Agriculture and everybody interested 

 in the welfare of the cotton crop, namely propaganda and research. 



As far as propaganda is concerned tie chief need with regard to 

 boll worm control is the encouragement of methods of cultivation 

 which tend to hasten the ripening of the bolls and of the use of early- 

 maturing varieties. The value of both these recommendations is 

 being appreciated more fully by the fellahin every year, but there is 

 much ground yet to be covered. 



As regards research the same two points provide ample scope. 

 The methods of obtaining the best results from early-sowing and 

 reduced watering are by no means fully understood at the present 

 time, and the breeding of early-maturing varieties of good quality is 

 of immense importance and should receive adequate attention, not 

 only from the Government, but from cultivators themselves also. 



In the Wadi Tumilat an intensive campaign was carried out 

 during the autumn of 1919 more efficiently, if possible, than in the two 

 previous years. During the autumn of 1920 it is proposed to leave 

 it without any campaign at all in order to provide a control for the 

 previous years. Careful boll counts will continue to be carried out 

 there, as throughout the rest of the country, in order to observe the 

 effects. It is exceeedingly unlikely, however, that the attack will 

 ever become as bad again as it was in 1917, since the cultivators 

 will join in the general tendency towards earliness, they will have 

 nothing but fumigated seed for sowing, and they will probably do a 

 certain amount of work on the lines of the campaign from sheer force 

 of habit. 



In Upper Egypt the damage done during 1919 was practically 

 negligible. In Lower Egypt the damage, although less than pre- 



