was 309 pounds of seed cotton per acre or 42%. The insects of primary impor- 

 tance were the boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis Boh.) and the bollworm 

 (Heliothis zea (Boddie)). The cotton fleahopper ( Psallus seriatus (Reut.)) was 

 involved in many years and the cotton aphid ( Aphis gossypii (Glov.)) was of 

 considerable importance until after the mid-1940's when several chlorinated 

 hydrocarbon insecticides other than DDT were available. 



QUARANTINE 



1904 - Connel, J. H. The weevil fight. Farm & Ranch 23:21. May 21. 



Urges the planters of northern Texas to drive back the weevil by destroying 

 isolated colonies. Remarks on quarantine. 



1904 - Wilcox, E. M. The Mexican cotton boll weevil. Ala. Agr. Expt. Sta. B. 129:91-104, 



4 fig. Auburn. 



A copy is given of an Alabama law for preventing the importation of seed 

 from cotton affected with the boll weevil. 



1905 - Hunter, W. D. The control of the boll weevil, including results of recent 



investigations. U. S. D. A. Farmers' B. 216, 32 p., 5 fig. 



Contains information on the present territory infested by the boll weevil and 

 State quarantine laws against the importation of the boll weevil. Such laws now 

 exist in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and 

 Oklahoma. Suggestions are made regarding the desirability of a uniform State 

 law for the control of the boll weevil. 



1905 - Newell, W. The Mexican cotton boll weevil. Ga. State Bd. Ent. B. 12:29, 21 fig. 

 The quarantine law of Georgia regarding the boll weevil is noted. 



1905 - Newell, W. Report of the Secretary of the Louisiana Crop Pest Commission, 

 1904-05. La. Crop Pest Comn. C. 7:27. 



Brief statements are presented regarding the boll weevil quarantine in 

 Louisiana, experiments with cultural methods, Paris green, and other means of 

 controlling the boll weevil. 



1908 - Newell, Wilmon. The boll weevil. La. State Crop Pest Comn., 2d Bien. Rpt. of 



the Secy. 1906-1907:9-16, & app. 



Report of the work of the commission during 1906-1907. Brief discussion of 

 spread of weevil and quarantine regulations which were enforced up to Feb. 4, 

 1908, when the quarantine was entirely repealed. 



1909 - Herrick, G. W. The insect pest law. Miss. Agr. Expt. Sta. C. p. 7, 1 fig. 



June 1908. 



The inspection law enacted by the legislature of 1908 is given and ex- 

 plained. This lav/ empowers the entomologist of the experiment station to 

 promulgate such rules and regulations in regard to the inspection, transporta- 

 tion, and sale of nursery stock as he may deem necessary and also to make 

 and enforce rules and regulations regarding the boll weevil. The rules and 

 regulations governing the transportation of cotton seed in the State are given. 



1912 - Cunningham, T. Inspection of fruit for pests. Br. Columbia Ent. Soc. Proc. 



p. 50-71. 



Provides examples of quarantine orders by various States of the Union 

 against various insects, including Anthonomus grandis (cotton boll weevil). 



1913 - Bentley, G. M. Eighth annual report of the State entomologist and plant pathologist 



for 1912. Tenn. State Bd of Ent., 64 p., 9 fig., 4 m. Knoxville. 



"The report contains remarks on the quarantine regulations against the 

 Mexican cotton boll weevil (A. grandis)." 



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