directed towards finding a remedy for the insect. Every sug- 

 gestion that offered any possibility of being developed into a 

 remedial measure has been thoroughly tested, and the life his- 

 tory and the habits of the boll weevil have been thoroughly 

 studied by the best entomologists in America. At the present 

 time more is known regarding this insect than regarding any 

 other of the thousands of insects which occur in this and other 

 countries. 



As a result of the exhaustive investigations and experiments 

 carried on by the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Bureau of Entomology, under the able direction of Dr. L. O. 

 Howard and Prof. W. D. Hunter, the "cultural method" of 

 avoiding the greater part of the boll weevil damage, thereby 

 producing profitable crops of cotton in defiance of the boll 

 weevil, was devised. It is very probable that the cultural meth- 

 ods will, by further experimentation, be developed to greater 

 effectiveness than at present, and the majority of intelligent 

 planters have now come to realize that in the cultural method, 

 or "cultural remedy," lies the only true remedy for the boll 

 weevil. In view of the numerous experiments that have been 

 made, both by entomologists and planters, and in view of the 

 very complete knowledge of the weevil now possessed, there 

 appears no possible chance of any remedy, aside from the cul- 

 tural remedy, ever being found. Even the "quacks" and "pat- 

 ent" remedy agents, who, a few years ago, sold the farmers 

 thousands of dollars' worth of so-called boll weevil "remedies," 

 have given up hope, and have, for the most part, disappeared. 



In the cultural method lies the only real remedy for the boll 

 weevil, and for that reason we prefer to call it by its right 

 name i.e., the "cultural remedy." 



For its successful application the cultural remedy requires ; 

 (1) early planting; (2) the use of a quick-maturing variety oi 

 cotton; (3) judicious use of fertilizers on soils requiring them; 

 (4) thorough cultivation; (5) destruction of cotton plants in 

 the fall, three to five weeks before the first killing frost, and 

 (6) diminishing the number of favorable hibernating quarters, 

 These measures are referred to more in detail below. 

 I Early Planting. 



The central idea upon which the cultural remedy is based, is 

 that of producing a crop of cotton before the boll weevil be- 

 comes abundant enough to destroy all squares as fast as they 



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