The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-22
COTTON CROP REPORTS
BOIL WORMS DOING MUCH DAMAGE
IN NORTH TEXAS.
In a Number OF Counties the Work OF
Destruction Is Going On--Presdent
Peters Is Pessjmslio.

Lockhart Caldwell County Texas, An.
gust 2l.rhe Post correspondent iu com
pauy with Hon Lea Beatty representative
OF Caldwell county. took trip yesterday
20 several of the large cotton farms IN
the vicinity OF Lockhart, and is nov ab.c
to speak from persouul ubscN alton aud
Inspection of the utterly hopeless cOudI-
ton OF the crop. The damage done IN
the recently overlooked districts Is SIM
ply iucalcuablc, and the continued ENaEcs
Of the boil weevi has finished up the
crop on the uplauds, SO that the prospect
OF any late crop Is absolutely "pil' Very
much Of the open crop that is now being
picked has been injured by the Weevi 50
that one or two sections ln every boil Is
either badly damaged or entirely lost, The
general estimate of the crop is, nov, about
one bale To five or eight acres In the most
favored sections, and from nothing TO one
bale to ten acres in the worst sections Of
the county.
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, August 81.
Hot dry weather is not ms been often
proclaimed, preventive of boil worms. lt
would he difficult TO get hotter or dryer
weather than North Texas has experienced
for several weeks. Despite these could
tions the holl worms have nmde their
appearance In hundreds Of cotton fields
/ IN North Texas Hnd they are leaving de
structiou wherever they go. Farmers in
the city today from various parts OF pal
las county and from lduant, Collin, Den
| ton, Graysou aud other counties report that
/ holi worms have appeared in their viriui
/ ties In almost countless numbers and that
! the ravREcs are becoming alarming, Gray
! son county farmers who came down the
! report that the destruction being wrought
| by the worms could he seen In scores of
cotton fields from the train
| Calvert Rob7rtsou Comfy, Texas, Au-
! gust ~ The Post correspondent met Culo
/ uel y. S, Peters the president of the Cot
/ ton Growers association, Yesterday and
/ asked him about the damage TO cotton
caused by tho boil worm aud boil wepvl
] HhsA va islf n a. N
! Colonel Peters cmphhticnlly, 81 have re-
| Gently travelled over urge section OF cot
ton growing territory and Ind the insects
destroying the cotton everywhere. You
! may say TINT the cotton crop In the wCevl
| infested district OF Texas Is virtually be
/ ing DESTROYED Colonel Peters further
stated that he noticed fine fertile cotton
lands that would hardly raise one bale &c
! twenty acres this year.
Marlin. Falls County. Texas. August II
| The farmers If this county were never
| worse disappointed than now IN nc rot
ton crop. only few weeks ago the gen
eral belief was, though the corn crop wa.
failure that the country would be pros
porous on account of a splendid cotton
/ crop. To one viewing the cotton from the
road md without a careful investigation
the crop appears exceedingly fine, but upon
| Investigation Il IL found there are very
few blooms aud squares on the weed. The
squares arc puncturcd as fast ms they form
and fan 10 tho ground
Alvin Brazoria County Texas, August 20
/ A Hight shower NJ rHiu fell here today the
hrst IN nearly SIS weeks, but not enough
to do any matcrinl good. A good soaking
rain Is badly needed NJ present 10 put
moisture in the ground FOR fan planting,
As a general thing farmers are well MP
with their work and crops are looking well.
| The largest vegetable and truck acreaga
| viii he planted here this fan In the history
Of the coast country The Kieffer pear
crop is very large this year and will be
ready for market I'm u short while
Forney, Kaufman County. Texas, August
! oo--ThS weather Is very dry And warm
crops every where are suffering for rain
The creeks that q few weeks ngo were
all over their bottoms In raging Hoods ar,
now dry again to their bed bottom, anC
some people are still hauling water Cot
ton Is coming In rapidly. Boil worms arc
I'm considerable quantities everywhere here
abouts and short crop Is feared II thel
continue.
BRENNAN Washington County, Texas, Au
gust 2i.-Mr. y. p Henry OF Graball wa
in the city Thursday and says that fht
weather has stopped the boil weevils from
multiplying, but the old ones are Sun DO
ing business, puncturing almost every
square that forms on the cotton plant
and that It now looks as II the prospee
for n top crop OF cotton would he might!
slim, with scarcely a fourth OF bottom
crop
salado Bell County Texas, August 10
For days there has been more or less tail
of boil weeylls. boil worms ana sharp
shooters that arc deprcdating on cotton
The weather Is dry, which Is causing M
plant 10 shed its leaves, which Is added e
the other complaints. II is said that al
except that matured before the rains ha
been shed on
Appieby, shelby County Texas Angus
20-The FIRST bale of new cotton wa
brought in this morning ~ u was ', ginne'
negro. raised 1t. The bale weighed SO