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Acting upon the knowledge of the weevil's habits available at that 

 time, the Commission undertook the complete extermination of the 

 weevil in this limited area and undertook to prevent the spread of 

 the insect by a rigid quarantine upon cotton seed, hulls, and seed- 

 cotton, as well as upon household goods, hay. grain, forage, cotton 

 sacks, baled cotton, etc.. from the weevil-infested sections. 



The extermination of the Sabine Parish colony was undertaken 

 in the spring of 1904. by prohibiting the farmers in the affected terri- 



AREA INFESTED DEC 1903" 

 AREA INFESTED DEC. (90A 



Fig. 3. — Area in Louisiana infested by Anthonomus grandis in December, 1903, and in 



December. 1904. 



tory from planting cotton, the landowners and tenants being paid 

 a cash rental by the commission and in addition being permitted to 

 grow any crop, other than cotton, that they de>ired. The elimina- 

 tion of cotton from this area of course resulted in eradication of the 

 weevils therefrom during 190-1. 



Near Logansport an infestation covering a few acres was found 

 in the early summer of 1904. having evidently been there the autumn 

 previous, but undetected. Extermination of this colony was accom- 



