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little footless grubs which feed on the inside of 

 the squares. When the grubs become full-grown 

 they change to pupa?, from which a few days later the 

 young weevils emerge. The time required from egg 

 to full-grown weevil is from two to three weeks." 



"Let me tell you 

 something more," 

 Corn added; "this 

 is going to be a 

 great war. That 

 boll-weevil army is 

 something terrible, 

 but people think so 

 much of Cotton that 

 they will fight as no 

 farmers have ever 

 fought before." 



Wherever the 

 weevils were at 

 work one could see 

 the buds and blooms 



lie on the ground. No one had ever seen anything 

 so destructive. When Martin Hentsel's boys came 

 from the field one day at dinner-time they told their 

 father about it. He answered, "Well, I had better 

 go and look at it myself after dinner." The way 

 he said it made his son Jim rosy, and he replied 

 rather curtly, "The damage will be just the same." 



FIG. 7. "They change to pupse." 



