Excerpt from Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine News Letter, 1940, Vol. 8 Stalk destruction. - Excessive rain during October prevented the com pletion of the original stalk - destruction program in the Coastal Bend dis triet, and on account of intermittent rains and misty Weather throughout most of November, approximately 600 acres Ol cotton stalks remained stand ing at the close of the period; also, some sprout plants and seedlings have developed. Most of the farmers in that area are anxious to complete the stalk - destruction work and replow their land in order to conserve the moisture and destroy any Sprout or seedling plants. Consequently, it is expected that field cleanéup in that area will be completed as soon as weather conditions will permit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.