The small larva that is hatched from the egg is spoken of as a grub. This name is applied to the larvae of all beetles. As the grub grows, he eats the food surrounding him. Of course, the young cotton square or boll is injured, and very frequently dies and falls to the ground. It takes about ten days for the grub to get fully grown and to pass into the pupa stage. This pupa stage lasts about three days and then the fully formed insect cuts a hole in the wall of the cotton square or boll large enough for his body, and emerges a full-grown cotton boll weevil.

The adult or grown weevil is reddish brown or gray in color, and is about one fifth of an inch in length, exclusive of his snout, which is just half as long as the body. He is shaped somewhat like a young corn weevil but is considerably larger. The adult weevil may live for a number of months. You can see from this story that the insect develops very rapidly from the egg to the grown weevil. It is possible to have as many as five generations in one season.

The boll weevil may spread in a number of ways. Carrying cotton seed from an area where the boll weevil is, to a part of the country where there are no weevils, may cause the spread of the pest. In the fall months when the cotton season is nearly over, weevils frequently rise and fly long distances seeking new fields. The boll weevil advances at the

rate of about fifty miles each year, and ultimately, the pests will spread over the entire cotton belt of the South.

The cotton boll weevil passes the winter sheltered in the hulls of old cotton bolls where the stalks are left standing, or under piles of old cotton stalks and other trash about the fields, under the bark of trees, and in other protected places.

The fact that the egg is deposited inside of the cotton square or the boll, and develops there makes it impossible to poison the young weevil. The remedies suggested by the Department of Agriculture and the Colleges of Agriculture are, to plant cotton early, using early or rapid fruiting varieties, preparing the land well, cultivating and fertilizing so as to hasten fruiting, and especially to destroy the green cotton stalks as early as possible in the fall, to cut off the only source of food they have. It is also suggested that if the farmers would pay a little less attention to cotton planting and a little more to raising livestock, and also hay, grains, and other crops on which the weevil cannot subsist, the boll weevil would be in a measure checked. Another very effective remedy is to go over the cotton fields when the old weevils first come out in the spring, gather up all of the weevils that can be found together with the punctured bolls, and destroy them.

A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT WORK

This story is about a great farmer, a man who devoted his life to teaching men how to live.

It is about a man who believed that scientific methods are just as necessary in farming as they are in the construction of steel bridges or the running of locomotives. It is about a man who believed and proved that if a man will but make a faithful study of the science of farming, he can make the very desert blossom as the rose. It is about a man who believed and demonstrated that even adverse conditions of nature may be conquered by the man who will put his head as well as his hand to the task. Dr. Seaman Asahel Knapp was one of the first men of this country to appreciate the splendid possibilities of agriculture, and it is largely due to him that we are at last coming to know that farming is one of the highest callings to which a man can devote himself. Through Dr. Knapp and men like him we are at last coming to know that it takes brains as well as brawn to run a farm, and that when brains as well as brawn are devoted to the work, success is sure. Through men like him we are coming to realize

the joy, the freedom, the self development, and the independence of this most honorable of callings.

It is pleasant to think of Dr. Knapp as a great American. To the North, his birthplace, he owed his rearing and his education, and it was here that his work as teacher began. In the West he spent many years of his manhood in developing and teaching the great science of agriculture. And the last twentyfive years of his life were spent in studying and demonstrating the magnificent agricultural resources of the South.

His biographer tells us that Dr. Knapp was born in a small New York town in 1833, and received his education, and afterwards taught for a while, in that state. In 1866 he moved to the West and settled on a farm in Iowa. Here he began the raising of general crops, together with livestock, principally Berkshire hogs and Shorthorn cattle. He soon became a power in his neighborhood, his county, and his state, for he made a sincere study of all that he attempted, and was always ready to give his neighbors the benefit of what he had learned.

Dr. Knapp published, at Cedar Rapids, an influential farm journal known as "The Western Stock Journal and Farmer." Through the medium of this paper, and in other ways, he pointed out to farmers the importance of producing more and better stock,