Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world

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Identifier: cottonitscultiva01burk (find matches)
Title: Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Burkett, Charles William, 1873- Poe, Clarence Hamilton, 1881-
Subjects: Cotton growing Cotton manufacture
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r ediblestate and the latter have become too hard foreating, the moth seeks other feeding grounds, newcotton perhaps, or a later-maturing corn somewhatfarther off; maybe a tomato field lies in some otherdirection: if so, it will be found and appropriatedfor the use of the new-coming brood. WHEN WINTER COMES As a rule, larvai of the latest broods seek winterhomes in the ground and there remain until thewarm days of spring rescue them when they issueforth as moths, soon to lay eggs preparatory toanother summers campaign. But this is not theonly way the winter months are passed, for adultmoths are known to seek shelter in some protectedplace and hibernate during the cold weather,perhaps only a few, however, in the adult or mothstage. ENEMIES OF THE INSECT Many birds feed constantly on worms. Nat-urally the cotton caterpillar and the cotton bollworm do not escape this provision by which natureseeks to keep them and other insect pests in check.The boll worm is the more favored of these two
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THE BOLL WEEVILS CONQUEST OF TEXAS. The shaded territory shows where the boll weevil is doing the most seriousdamage.

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