Red Rust 



This disease is caused by the red spider. Strong healthy plants 

 are not usually affected. 



Remedies 



While many remedies are recommended and probably all have some 

 merit, the best remedy suggested by thorough cotton growers is fitting 

 the plant to its en\aronment and adopting a systematic rotation. It 

 is conceded that where planters rotate their crops, keeping their land free 

 from weeds and trash, they eliminate to a great extent, all varieties 

 of diseases. A deep seed-bed thoroughly drained and pulverized, 

 an abundance of organic matter and plant food, good seed and the 

 right cultivation are preventives of diseases, which are far more 

 effective than any of the cures that are recommended. 



BOLL WEEVIL 



SO much has been written about this pest both from a practical 

 and theoretical standpoint that we will offer but four simple 

 suggestions which if adopted by the planter will be of material 

 benefit in eradicating this insect. 



1. Drain the land in order to insure an early rapid growth of the 

 plant. 



2. Select strong seed from the best and earliest maturing plants. 



3. Keep the land where the cotton is grown and all adjacent strius 

 absolutely clean. 



4. Grow cotton in rotation making a legume one of the crops in 

 the rotation. 



For a number of years the Bureau of Plant Industry and Entomology 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture have been untiring 

 in their efforts ^to solve the problem of eradicating this arch enemy of 

 cotton. Their researches are so valuable that we take the liberty of 

 presenting them. 



"1. The cotton boll weevil feeds upon nothing but cotton. 



"2. It goes into winter quarters mainly in or near the field of its 

 depredations. 



"3. Comparatively few weevils survive the winter and emerge in 

 the spring. 



"4. The overwintered weevil feeds upon the terminal buds of the 

 young cotton plants until the forms or squares develop, then the female 

 deposits her eggs in the squares, exclusively at first, but later deposits 

 them also in the immature bolls. 



