Georgia's $400,000,000 Cotton Crop In Dire Danger From Boll Weevil By C. J. Hnden. Into the mtnds of the people' ot A four-hundred-milllon-dollar co!- Genrgia. In one county (Adams, la- ton erop is In peril in Georgla. It sissippl). the yleld of cotton dropped IN the part of sound Judgment to In 1909 from 25,000 bales to 70e make erery poralble preparatlon hales, and, after eleven years, has agalnst the Invasion of the boll never reached 4,000 bales in any The trail af one year; the city ot Natehez lost this Insect 1In the southwest ts aban- approximately one-third of its-pop- broken mercantile ulation, and the country portion of houses and closed banks. Selentifir | the county fuly as much, the labor experts, after Jong Investigation, de- fleeing to parts further north; the clare that two of these Insects wiln Teading banks falled for milllons; brecd more than two milllons dur. the land values declined from an Ing one summer and their appetites average ot $75 per acre to about $25 are as ravenous as pigs. Preven- per acre. and a large percentagé tion is the faly dependable method of them bought by speculators from the went and north. The story weevit thls summer. doned farms. of dealing Pith them. 2-llan -- 19. What do the documents above suggest the boll weevil does? that the bel
Georgia's $400,000,000 Cotton Crop In Dire Danger From Boll Weevil By C. J. Hnden. Into the mtnds of the people' ot A four-hundred-milllon-dollar co!- Genrgia. In one county (Adams, la- ton erop is In peril in Georgla. It sissippl). the yleld of cotton dropped IN the part of sound Judgment to In 1909 from 25,000 bales to 70e make erery poralble preparatlon hales, and, after eleven years, has agalnst the Invasion of the boll never reached 4,000 bales in any The trail af one year; the city ot Natehez lost this Insect 1In the southwest ts aban- approximately one-third of its-pop- broken mercantile ulation, and the country portion of houses and closed banks. Selentifir | the county fuly as much, the labor experts, after Jong Investigation, de- fleeing to parts further north; the clare that two of these Insects wiln Teading banks falled for milllons; brecd more than two milllons dur. the land values declined from an Ing one summer and their appetites average ot $75 per acre to about $25 are as ravenous as pigs. Preven- per acre. and a large percentagé tion is the faly dependable method of them bought by speculators from the went and north. The story weevit thls summer. doned farms. of dealing Pith them. 2-llan -- 19. What do the documents above suggest the boll weevil does? that the bel
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