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What is the great American farmer going to do about this matter? What he should do is to write and urge his members of Congress to work for and vote for the federal migratory bird bill. THE COTTON BOLL WEEVIL. Let us take one other concrete case. The cotton boll weevil invaded the United States from Mexico in 1894.
The negro race does not live to lay up for a rainy day. And so the cotton being neglected, its lengthened and frowseled locks hung from wide open bolls like the locks of a tawdry woman in early morning. No one wanted it that is, wanted it bad enough to pick it. For cotton was cheap that fall very cheap and picking cotton is a back-bending business. Therefore it hung its frowsy locks from the boll.
The bullocks draw the plough in much the same way as horses do in this country. The operation of ploughing breaks up the soil, while the rough clods may be broken by hand mallets or by the use of the "hengha" a piece of tree boll harnessed at the ends to a pair of bullocks.
The worm, after gnawing through its enclosed shell, makes its first meal upon the part of the plant upon which the egg was laid, be it leaf, stem or involucre. If it were laid upon the leaf, as was usually the case, it might be three days before the worm reached the boll; but were the eggs laid upon the involucre the worm pierced through within twenty-four hours after hatching.
It was expedient accordingly to send the pickers through the fields as early and as often as there was crop enough open to reward the labor. Four or five compartments held the contents of each boll; from sixty to eighty bolls were required to yield a pound in the seed; and three or four pounds of seed cotton furnished one pound of lint.
His commercial instincts might have been put to dreamy sleep by the appearance of the purple bloom, but it is keenly aroused by the opening boll. He is influenced by no song, by no color fantastically bobbing between the rows. He is alert, determined not to be cheated. Too much music might cover a rascally trick, might put a clod in the cotton to be weighed.
We had to borrow to buy our big overshot wheel; we had, though. And when ould Parson Harrison sent us the first boll of oats, we couldn't grind it for want of " Cæsar tugged at the counterpane and said, "Will you lie quiet, woman, and let a hard-working man sleep?" "Then don't be the young man's destruction, Cæsar." Cæsar made a contemptuous snort, and pulled the bedclothes about his head.
A great English tree, the rings of a century in its boll, is one of the noblest of natural objects; and it touches the imagination no less than the eye, for it grows out of tradition and a past order of things, and is pathetic with the suggestions of dead generations. Trees waving a colony of rooks in the wind to-day, are older than historic lines. Trees are your best antiques.
Boll the dough thin. Spread the butter upon it. Mix sugar and cinnamon together, and sprinkle on it. Now turn over the edges of the dough carefully to keep the sugar in, and press and work gently for a few minutes, that it may not break through. Knead till thoroughly mixed. Roll out; cut like biscuit, and let them rise an hour, baking in a quick oven.
They had axes among them, yet they generally made use of a stone mallet wrought into the shape of a bottle, and wedges of elk horn, in splitting their wood. Though they might have two or three brass kettles hanging, in their lodges, yet they would frequently use vessels made of willow, for carrying water, and would even boll their meat in them, by means of hot stones.
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