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The St. Mary Banner
Franklin, Saint Mary County, Louisiana
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W. R. Dodson of Louisiana Experiment Station outlines five benefits of fall cotton plant destruction to combat boll weevils: outright killing of adults and immatures, starvation of survivors, prevention of late broods, and facilitation of plowing for better yields.
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Destruction of Plants in Fall Kills Many Outright - Others Are Starved to Death.
(By W. R. Dodson. Louisiana Experiment Station.)
Five reasons for the fall destruction of cotton plants:
1. Hordes of adult weevils, many for each plant in the field, are killed outright.
2. Many more weevils that are in the immature stages, sometimes as many as a hundred for each plant in the field, are also killed.
3. The few adult weevils escaping will be weakened by starvation, and the great majority will not have sufficient strength to pass through the winter.
4. Development of the late broods, which experiments have shown furnish the vast majority of weevils that pass through the winter, is cut off immediately. In this way hundreds of weevils that would develop from each plant are absolutely prevented from doing so.
5. The removal of the infested plants with the weevils facilitates fall or early winter plowing, which is the best possible procedure in cotton raising. Moreover, this plowing assists greatly in the production of an early crop the following season.
Picking Cotton.
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hordes of adult weevils and many immature weevils killed outright; surviving adults weakened by starvation and unlikely to survive winter; development of late broods cut off, preventing hundreds of weevils per plant; facilitates fall plowing for better cotton production.
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Plan to destroy cotton plants in fall to kill boll weevils, as explained by W. R. Dodson of Louisiana Experiment Station. Five reasons: 1. Kills hordes of adult weevils outright. 2. Kills many immature weevils. 3. Weakens escaping adults by starvation, preventing winter survival. 4. Cuts off late brood development. 5. Allows fall plowing for improved next season crop.