FARM SPIES 



THE BOLL-WEEVIL 

 A GREAT FIGHT TO SAVE THE COTTON 



MANY years ago the Southern soil was ruled by a 

 king whose name was Cotton. Not only did he 

 rule the soil, but the people also, because there was 

 no other cultivated plant on the farm so abundant 

 as cotton. The people depended on the cotton- 

 crop for their money with which to buy food, cloth- 

 ing, and other things they needed or wanted. Peo- 

 ple, for that reason, spoke of the cotton-plant as 

 King Cotton. 



One day Mr. Corn visited the South and saw how 

 much the people loved cotton, and no matter in what 

 direction he looked he saw nothing but cotton, 

 cotton, cotton. "I never saw anything to beat 

 this/' Corn said to himself. " People are surely in- 

 terested in Cotton, and no other cultivated plant seems 

 to have a chance on the farms down here because 

 no one believes that there is anything so good as 

 Cotton. I do not see how this can go on much 

 longer. I know it does not do in my section of the 

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