The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-23
Cotton Boil weeviI Outlook.

GONAOm DUH NVGGNA
 Entomologist Glenn W. Herrick. Asri-
 cultural College. Miss, in Southern
 Farm Gazette.
 Those that have lived and worked with the boil weevil for the past four or five years have consistently predict ed its eventual spread over the larger part, if not all. of the cotton growing area. Let ITS examine, briefly, the rate and manner of the progress of the weevil since it's appearance in the United states and, more especially, dur ing the past year and see if the fore going predictions are we'll founded. If they are we must prepare to face new conditions and learn to cope with new problems in cotton culture
 Up to October, 1908, the weevil had not been found outside of Texas. By December 10, 1903, it was found in two isolated places in Sabine Parish, La. In the meantime. the Louisiana Crop Pest Commission, deeming that they had ain excellent opportunity to stay the pro- gress of the weevil If 1t could be ar rested at all, put a strict quarantine against the importation from infested points of seed cotton, cotton seed, hulls, hay. grain. and other products consider ed dangerous Men were placed along the Louisiana-Texas line, to search for outbreaks of the weevil if they should occur AHhh 0Aoh9 State line was put out ~of cotton and other crops grown, in the hope of creat- ing a line across which the weevil could not pass. These methods of fighting the progress of the weevil were based upon the supposed facts that the insect migrated but slowly from field to field of cotton and flew very little, and that it's chief method of dissemina- ton was by way of cotton gins.
 IA1 GfEQfQd thai farmer living on the west side of gin in infested regions might bring the weevil to the gin in cotton while farmer living perhaps ten miles east of the gin would carry it home with him in his seed. In this way the weevil has undoubtedly been unwit- tingly carried many miles into new ter ritory.
 Up to the 18th of August, 1904, the success of the efforts put forth by the commission seemed assured. But. at this time, Professor Morgan and others associated with him were made aware Of a condition over which they had no possible means of control. This was the unexpected and sudden migration of the weevils over a distance of thirty miles, the greater part of which took place in a few days. Moreover. the migration was undoubtedly due to pow CTS of long sustained flight which had heretofore remained unsuspected or at least. unknown.
 Dr. Hunter writing of this sudden migration says: Tn many cases, upon slight disturbance. weevils were seen to rise above the roofs Of houses ana the tops of tall trees and disappear from view. How high they ultimately rose in flight no one can say, for the eye could not follow them farther. In this flight the wsevils were able to cross lakes ten miles in width; and regions forty miles in bredath, in which no cotton was produced. were passed over with apparent ease. These are facts carefully established during the season of 1904 by a corps of competent painStaking, and conscientious oo- servers.
 Since these conditions are true, the Mississippi River neutral zones of nom cotton producing areas. unless great deal wider than anything we have heretofore thought neesssary. and auarantines against hay. grain. and cotton products are of no valueAin per manently arresting the proRress of the