COTTON 



an article based upon the writer's report to the Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies of Great Britain appeared in 

 the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, which dealt with 

 the insects which attack cotton in Egypt, 5 and a reference 

 was again made in an account prepared by the writer 

 upon insect and other cotton pests and the methods 

 suggested for their destruction, which appeared in the 

 Bulletin of the Imperial Institute in the following year. 6 

 An article upon the subject of the methods employed in 

 Egypt and elsewhere to check the ravages of the cotton 

 boll worm appeared in the Agricultural Journal of Egypt 

 in 1911. 7 



Commission of 1910. 



Tn the report of the Cotton Commission, which was 

 issued in 1910, reference was chiefly made to the cotton 

 worm among the pests which infest cotton, but a few 

 references occur which show that it was recognized that 

 the boll worm was responsible for considerable damage. 

 On p. 5 of the report we find: " La production coton- 

 niere totale de TEgypte n'a pas augmente dans la meme 

 proportion que la superficie plantee, et en 1909 plus 

 particulierement, il y a eu une chute brusque dans le 

 rendement moyen au feddan. Si Ton etudie la situation 

 particuliere a la Haute Egypte, on constate qu'a part 

 1'annee 1905 ou les chenilles de la capsule commirent 

 d'enormes degats le rendement au feddan n'y a pas suivi 

 une marche descendante. L'annee 1909 marque cependant 

 une chute accentuee." 



The Commission recommended two methods to be 

 employed against the boll worm attacks, one of which 

 was the production of an early maturing variety of 

 cotton, and the other the promulgation of a decree 

 making the destruction of all malvaceous plants neces- 

 sary by the end of December. The Commission also 

 considered the application of the system of moth trap, 



5 "Insects which attack Cotton ID Egypt" (Dudgeon), Bull. 

 Im$. InsL, vol. iv, igo6, pp. 48-50. 



6 " Insects and other Cotton Pests and the Methods suggested 

 for their Destruction" (Dudgeon), Bull. Im$. Inst., vol. v, 1907, 



p. 145- 



7 Dudgeon, G. C. Agric. Journ. of Egypt, vol. i, 191 1, 



pp. 40-43- 



