PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION, 1921. 



In July, 1915, a committee of trustees and officials of Clemson 

 College visited the boll-weevil section in order better to advise the 

 farmers of this State in advance of the coming of the weevil to 

 South Carolina. Their findings and recommendations were em- 

 bodied in a bulletin, several editions of which appeared during 

 1915 and 1916. 



In spite of war conditions and the high price of cotton during 

 several of the intervening years, the warnings and advice contained 

 in this timely bulletin have had much to do with preparing South 

 Carolina for the inevitable infestation. Our people are not -fully 

 prepared, but are not wholly unprepared. 



Through the kindness of Senator N. B. Dial this bulletin is being 

 reprinted as a Senate document. It has been found advisable to make 

 some additions to the original manuscript in order to embody con- 

 clusions that have been reached during the last three or four years. 

 It is now put out in revised form with the hope that the good work 

 it has accomplished thus far in preparing our people for the boll 

 weevil will be continued until the struggle for adjustment and 

 supremacy over the boll weevil is fully won. 



W. M. RiGGS, 



President Clemson Agncultural College. 

 Clemson Collbge, S. C, October 20, W'lil. 



