Author: Jesse Lee Webb
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
This publication tells the important facts about the weevil--what it looks like, how it lives, how it grows, the damage it does, and the different ways of controlling it commonly used. Written in simple language, it is intended especially for boys and girls, although it should be useful also to grown-ups who want to learn about the weevil and extension workers also should find this publication of value in teaching the necessary facts about boll weevil control.
Cotton Or Boll Weevils
Author: Jesse Lee Webb
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
This publication tells the important facts about the weevil--what it looks like, how it lives, how it grows, the damage it does, and the different ways of controlling it commonly used. Written in simple language, it is intended especially for boys and girls, although it should be useful also to grown-ups who want to learn about the weevil and extension workers also should find this publication of value in teaching the necessary facts about boll weevil control.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
This publication tells the important facts about the weevil--what it looks like, how it lives, how it grows, the damage it does, and the different ways of controlling it commonly used. Written in simple language, it is intended especially for boys and girls, although it should be useful also to grown-ups who want to learn about the weevil and extension workers also should find this publication of value in teaching the necessary facts about boll weevil control.
Boll Weevil Blues
Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
Mexican Cotton-boll Weevil in 1897
Author: Leland Ossian Howard
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Cotton Boll Weevil
Author: Franklin Sherman
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Studies in the Biology of the Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil on Short-staple Upland, Long-staple Upland, and Sea-island Cottons
Author: George Durward Smith
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Category : Agaves
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
And conclusions. pp. 19.
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Category : Agaves
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
And conclusions. pp. 19.
Cotton Boll-weevil Control in the Mississippi Delta, with Special Reference to Square Picking and Weevil Picking
Author: B. R. Coad
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Status of the Cotton Boll Weevil in 1909
Author: Walter David Hunter
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Ravages of the Boll Weevil
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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The Truth about the Boll Weevil
Author: Alfred Holt Stone
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Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Cotton Boll Weevil in Tennessee
Author: Gordon Mansir Bentley
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description