The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-11
TILE TICK and BOIL WEEVII
FRESHMAN Watkins Makes Strong Speech Ursins the
Passage Of the Agricultural Appropriation Bill.

ciudlng the seeds, of $4,000, 900
The weevil has spread over a,
Iarea OF 100000 square miles /,
Texas and Louisiana, and ha
now reached point in Louisian,
within forty miles of the Mississ
lppi river and is going eastward
and northeast at the rate of fit,
miles each year. 1t is carryinf
terror and destruction in its wake
and ere long its ravages will ag.
gregate In dollars and cents the
recent terrible catastrophe on the
western shores of this continent.
a bout one-third of the cotton
acreage of the United States is
now infested with the boil weevil,
The government officials in the
bureau of entomology are not
only teaching the farmers how to
make more cotton by cultural
methods in spite of the boil
weevil, but are encouraging them
to diversity their crops and to
cultivate on the. intensive plan,
resulting in enormous yields CON-
pared with former methods.
The money will be probably in
vested for which this appropri-
alton calls.
THE CATTLE TICK.
The devastation caused BY the
Mexican cotton boil weeyil makes
it necessary for those engaged In
tie cotton growing states to look
to some other source of revenue
than Gotten.
Heretofore the raising of cattle
In the South has received very
little attention outside of the
state of Texas, but if it were not
for the destruction of cattle BY
the Texas fever, caused BY the
cattle tick, and the fact that the
tick itself seriously damages cat,
tie. where fever is not produced,
By it, the cattle industry In the
South would be q source of tre-
mendous profit.
There is no part of this great
country where cattle can be-
raised mole cheapiy and with
greater profit, if the tick Is elm
The cattle tick causes q loss to
the agriculturists of the South at
least of $1o0, oe0,0 900 annually
And the estimate of 50.0O0, 900
Is not unreasonable
The first estimate. uf 800, 000,-
900 is made BY the officials of the
United States government. and
the estimate of $l5o, 00O, 900 by
Mr.. August Mayer Of Shreveport,
Louisiana. He has made vast re-
search into the question and Il
wish to give you the benefit of
bis Investigations:
SIN the gulf states four gener-
atoms will often be Matched in
one season. shy Eve. have two
sggsscarried over the winter, that
hatch BY April Is q male and
female. This female will have
become engorged and laid 5000
~ May Is, which have Matched
~ June ID. One thousand and
i've hundred of these seed-ucks
will be females, and will have be-
come engeFged and laid 1.500x-
], 900 500. 900 BY July Is. By
August u these eggs will have
PATCHED, one half females equals
$50, go by September 10 wilt
nave engorged and laid 2,25O, 000,-
g, 90 equals $50, O0o, 900, which
viii hstch BY October 10. One
half Of. these. being females, that
j 3,875; 000.0 900, will engorge and
lrop irrsgularlyand 90 through
he winter - adults, or will lay
,ees.that viii pass through the
winter.
ssOf course this can not happen,
s such . number of parasites
would destroy their hosts, &pd
he species would thus destroy
tsolf Nature does not work
:. a u<zs - s<.rxn fhn