The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-05
THE MEXICAN
GOF2OF WEEVIL.
A 'r'cn'inrni Department Writes Gov
CoihersoD Abont this Now Pest
in Texas.
Recommends Stringent Measures--T.
Prohibit Cotton Raising Within
Ten Miles Of the Rio
Grande.
Galveston News.

Grdnue.
Galveston News.
Washington, Jan. 3l.-The sec
Rotary Of agriculture has written 4
bitter to Governor Culbersnn 10 re-.
tsfd 30 The discovery of another
enemy to the cotton growine iniere s.
Of Vexs' Some tim- $50 the deasr :
ment received letters from the south
Western counties Of Texas in which
an examination va asked into a new
tin 9 of boil uorm, which bed greatly
injured re cotton The department
""d tnoen OF ;iis pest 10 Mexico,
aud a. or 90 @mploye J a special and
highl, qualified entomoIogist and sent
no ia Mexico to Commence his in,
vesligations there. L was nene ,sarv
o send an eutomologist who under
stood the Spanish language, and this
dece's fa'ei the employment of a
SPECIAL man. He commenced his in
Vestigaiions where the worm has
destroyed the cotton in Mexico and
followed It 10 this side Of the river.
where it seems it had been ira, g.
port d in the SEED. His report is in
aud on it be or tary as written
Governor Gu sos.
The agrieul'ural iepartme looks
on the matter a. most serions one.
and is extremely eolcltous thai the
r'xas legislature sbull do whntitcsn
to prevent the spread Of the pest. In
conversation with one of the hin,
officia 3 of the DEF srtment today he
AID that If Texas should made 10
fmt TO beat own the eheiny 10 lis
greatest industry il would rescit fin
lily ia the Other snnthern states being
furc' d 10 project themselves aps,nst
fzs by qua nuiine agaIust Texas
Agalnst seed OF by some other pro
cess. The letter to Governor Cul.
berso" is AS follows.
Jan. 20 1896. the Hon. Chas
A. CulberscD. Governor of Texas:
take the liberty OF calling your at.
iention to the results of an investing
uou Which has jnst been made IN the
state OF Texas by the division OF
entom ology Of this department and
the desEabiiity, in view of threaten
ing dama.e to the cotton crop OF
your state, as we'll as 10 all other
cotton growing states, of certain i'm
meila'e "c'ion on the part of your
i-ll-Iature. II appears that the cot
tnu boil wsevi' (authouomus grandis)
Al Insect originating IN be state ol
Cosnujis. Mex. and whlch oanse,i the
abandonment Ufi--crjlou cnItnrp a
ouuber Of yesrs Ar4,about Monclova,
bss within very recent times been
carried across the Be UfsnIe at
Nsiamdros and spread through the
cotton Gelds Of tue northern bslf Of
Cameron county u3h the .0utheaat
corner OF Nd .l2o connty Carried
overland 10 cttou for giuuing to
iice aud San Diegn, 1t has spread
from field TO field in the nelghhoriug
cnuDties of Dual, Nueees, San Pa
t,icio, Live Oak, McMullen and AIMS
COCA, iniesting to q greater or les
degree stretch of country covering
over 1000 sou re miles. In this re
zion it damaged the cotton crop
during the season of 1894 in frying
'Iegree, causing in so he cases e loss
of from SO to so per cent. This insect,
unless checked. will prove the most
serious drawback to cotton culture
which this country has encountered.
1t riddles the boil, running both fbsr
aud seed. Poisoning with PARIS
gf-eu, as for the caterpillar, vii
he eficacious. since The inseGt;feeds
within the boil. More radical or
mora lsboTioas nsaaases must rs. ~