grandis. A single system for cotton-insect control is described, the measures for 

 each season being indicated. Early in spring weeds should be kept down and 

 poison-bait traps laid wherever necessary for cutworms, grasshoppers, etc. 

 Planting should be as early as possible, while avoiding frosts. Prolific varieties 

 that fruit rapidly should be chosen to suit the locality. For summer treatment, 

 cultivation should be continued until the crop is gathered or as long as possible. 

 In the autumn the cotton crop should be gathered without delay and then the plants 

 destroyed by plowing under or grazing as early before frost as possible. 



It is advisable to follow a 3 -year rotation with cotton following some crop 

 other than maize. In winter all fence rows should be cleared, weeds cut and 

 burned, stubble fields plowed and old stumps rooted up. 



1917 - Williams, J. W. How to grow cotton in spite of the boll weevil. Ga. State Bd. Ent. 

 B. 47, 48 p., 9 pi. Feb. Atlanta. 



This bulletin outlines plans for growing cotton by methods that secure the 

 best conditions and the maximum results in the presence of the boll weevil. Em- 

 phasis is laid on the necessity for destroying cotton stalks in the autumn as soon 

 as the cotton is harvested. This reduces the number of weevils that live through 

 the winter. The ground should be thoroughly prepared in the autumn and harrowed 

 2 or 3 times during the winter. No cover crop should be planted after or before 

 cotton. When the weevil first appears the colonies should be stamped out, when 

 possible, by killing the weevils and taking up the first plants that show infestation. 



1920 - Anonymous. Experiments with green bolls of sea island cotton. Agr. News 

 14(468):101. Apr. 3. Barbados. 



The Spence-Harvey system of treating green cotton bolls is said to lessen, 

 materially, the damage caused by the boll weevil in the United States. Under this 

 system the bolls are gathered while green and mechanically matured by a special 

 process. They are then treated by special machinery so as to extract the cotton. 

 Only 2 machines are at present in operation, though it is expected that upwards of 

 100 will be made during 1920. 



1920 - Anonymous. The boll weevil - 16th annual report, 1917. S. C. Comn. Agr. Com. 



& Ind., p. 265-288. Columbia. 



The results of dusting as a remedy against the boll weevil are briefly dis- 

 cussed. No definite recommendations in favor of a method is considered possible 

 at present. It is pointed out that the general practices advocated against the pest 

 are practically the same as those demanded in good farming. The acreage planted 

 with peanuts in South Carolina is increasing, and it is thought that this crop might 

 profitably be substituted for cotton in many districts. 



Prof. A. F. Conradi is of the opinion that the boll weevil will, in the future, 

 be a permanent limiting factor in cotton production in the State. He considers that 

 the poisoning methods warrant a thorough investigation of its merits, and thinks 

 that early failures were due to the crude state of the poisons and the apparatus 

 for applying them. Mr. Sevinton Whaley's advice, after the severe infestation of 

 1919, was to resort to diversified methods of farming, cultivating cotton only as a 

 surplus crop; to use the intensive system and poison with calcium arsenate. 



1921 - Anonymous. The boll weevil - 17th annual report, 1920. S. C. Comn. Agr. Com. 



& Ind., p. 130-138. Columbia. 



The menace of the infestation by the boll weevil in S. C. in 1920 was so 

 clearly foreseen and farmers so far protected themselves by diversified agri- 

 culture that the calamity was much less than had been anticipated; in fact, care- 

 ful farmers in the boll weevil area were more prosperous than those in parts of 

 the State remote from the infested area who gave their entire land to cotton 

 growing. The various agricultural practices adopted by the different counties of 

 S. C. in this respect are reviewed by various authors. 



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