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Table XXVII. — Temperature comparisons of various cotton sections. 



Month. 



Monthly average normal mean for 11 years, 1892-1902. 



Victoria. 



Tex., av- 

 erage 



(1902 and 



1903 



only). 



Dallas, 



Shreve- 



Atlanta. 



Texas 



Louisi- 



Tex. 



port,La. 



Ga. 



section. 



tion. 



° F. 



° F. 



° F. 



° F. 



° F. 



80.5 



79.9 



78.0 



80.6 



80.1 



83.3 



82.4 



80.3 



88.9 



83.5 



82.8 



82.5 



79.2 



82.8 



81.6 



77.4 



77.8 



70.2 



77.3 



77.1 



68.1 



67.1 



62.6 



67.9 



67.7 



-56.7 



56.8 



57.8 



57.3 



58.9 



74.8 



74.4 



71.2 



74.6 



74.6 



Georgia 

 section. 



Jnne 



July 



August 



September 



October r .. 



November 



Average for 6 months 



F. 



75.0 



80.8 



80.2 



77.6 



71.6 



63.7 



F. 



80.1 

 79.0 

 74.7 

 64.5 

 58.9 



ri.s 



r2.2 



From these considerations of temperature difference and judging 

 the varying influence as ascertained at Victoria, it seems that the 

 weevil may prove less and less destructive as it spreads to the cooler 

 portions of the cotton belt, though this supposition is likely to be 

 nullified by an ability to adapt itself to new conditions. 



While it must be admitted that nothing, so far as now known, seems 

 certain to prevent the spread of the weevil to an} T latitude where cotton 

 is now grown, it does seem probable that its control maj T be more easily 

 accomplished in the more northern portions of the cotton belt than in 

 the Texas area now infested, and since it has been most positively 

 demonstrated that better than the average crop may here be grown 

 in spite of the depredations of the weevil, there would seem to be no 

 special reason for a panic over the future of the cotton crop. Cotton 

 has been and still will be grown in spite of the weevil. The present 

 promise is that those planters who enter the struggle with determina- 

 tion, and who adopt the advanced methods which have proven suc- 

 cessful wherever tried, will realize practically as large a profit from 

 cotton raising in the future as it has been possible to obtain in the 

 past. 



DISEASES. 



Especially in moist breeding jars, weevils often die from what 

 appears to be a bacterial disease. The body contents liquefy, turning 

 to a dark brown in color, and have a putrid odor. Death follows 

 quickly, though not until after putrefaction has begun. The fre- 

 quency with which several weevils died in the same jar at about the 

 same time indicates that this disease may be contagious. It has not 

 been found in the fields, however, and may have been due entirely to 

 abnormal laboratoiy conditions. 



It is doubtful whether the following observations upon fungus 

 attacks upon weevils should properly be classed with diseases, but as 

 there is a possibility that the attack may have been of this nature, the 

 observations may be given here. 



In July, 1902, a lot of squares sent by mail from Calvert, Tex., to 

 Victoria, was so long delayed upon the road that they were very 



