100 PLANT-BUGS INJURIOUS TO COTTON BOLLS. 
cotton worth many times the outlay. It is not urged that all 
cotton growers begin a systematic search for the presence of bugs 
in their cotton fields, but there are known to be many whose expe- 
rience has already shown the extent of the damage chargeable to 
plant-bugs. For them the investigations here reported should be 
useful in the determination as to whether or not remedial measures 
are desirable under their own peculiar conditions. It is hoped that 
the attention of many others will be directed to this damage where 
it has previously been unnoticed or, if noticed, misunderstood. By 
careful attention to the elimination, as far as practicable, of damage 
by these and other minor cotton pests, an important advance will be 
made toward the reestablishment of cotton growing upon the profit- 
able basis existent before the advent of the cotton boll weevil. 
