1. One step away from closing the door on the boll weevil.
- Author
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Smith, Ron
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BEETLES , *ELIMINATION (Mathematics) , *COTTON farmers , *FARMERS ,ECONOMIC conditions of farmers - Abstract
The article deals with the effect that the passing of a new legislation for the eradication of boll weevils is likely to have on cotton farmers in parts of the United States. If the program proves successful, boll weevil will soon cease to be an economic threat to any cotton anywhere in the United States. The program has encountered and overcome about as many challenges as the number of weevils early employees found in the northernmost and easternmost cotton area. In some cases, farmers say that without the program they would have been forced out of cotton.
- Published
- 2005