HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 17 
Mr. Scorr. Do you know whether, after the culture has been 
abandoned in a certain district for a number of years, it can then be 
resumed ? 
Mr. Burieson. They attempted to resume it after a lapse of ten or 
twelve years, and the weevil M eabreved the first crop, just as it had 
destroyed the last. 
The Cuatrman. The wheat weevil attacked our wheat in 1857 and 
we had to abandon the raising of certain kinds of wheat; but we intro- 
duced what was called the red Mediterranean bearded wheat, which 
was a resistant, and we got rid of the weevil in that way. 
Mr. Burteson. I would be glad if Doctor Galloway would direct 
attention to one sporadic outbreak or manifestation of the weevil in 
Louisiana and the steps that were thought necessary to take in order 
to destroy it. 
- Mr. Gattoway. In company with the Secretary, when we visited the 
Louisiana Experiment Station, we were informed by Doctor Stubbs, the 
director, that there had been an outbreak of the weevil, or the weevil 
itself found, in the cotton growing onanexperimentfarm. Itwaspretty 
generally shown, I believe, that this was an artificial introduction 
brought over for probably speculative purposes. There was some argu- 
ment between Doctor Stubbs and a gentleman living in New Orleans 
about certain matters pertaining to cotton. Doctor Stubbs made the 
statement that the weevil did not exist in Louisiana. This gentleman 
asserted that it existed right under the nose of the director, and that 
he did not knowit. He made the statement that it was there, and Doc- 
tor Stubbs made the statement that it was not. This other gentleman 
went out and found the weevil rightinthe place. Then Doctor Stubbs 
took radical measures for eradication. e destroyed every stalk of 
cotton he had on the place. He had the roots dug up, and all the stalks 
and roots piled together and burned, after being covered with oil. 
Then he treated all the ground with crude petroleum or oil. Then he 
let in the Mississippi River and flooded the whole thing for a couple 
of feet and let it stand for a week or ten days. He said that if there 
were any weevils there, he wanted to be sure they were destroyed, and 
he abandoned cotton growing on that particular plot of ground. 
Mr. Levrr. How far east has the boll weevil gone? 
Mr. Gatroway. It is still confined to Texas, but it is within 25 to 
40 miles of the Louisiana line, as I understand it. 
I will simply say a word in regard to the second line of work pro- 
posed. That is, ‘‘demonstration work to show the value of improved 
cultural methods by which farmers can produce fair crops, in spite of 
the weevil.” This is the line of work that gives the best promise 
of good results. It has been put into operation by Doctor Howard, 
especially the last year, and has for its object, first, the demonstration 
of the fact that by planting early maturing varieties, by good cultural 
methods, by the destruction of all infested material, cotton crops can 
be grown regardless of the weevil; and just in that connection I wish 
to emphasize what seems to me to be the necessity for establishing 
quite a number of these demonstration farms. That is, it is not so 
much a question of the relation of these farms to certain types of dis- 
trict, or certain geological formations, as it is to make actual object 
lessons so that the farmers themselves, who are conservative and who 
will not act unless the matter is brought strictly to their attention, 
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