Trying to Block
Weevil’s Advance
Raleigh, N.C., Nov. 7—A safety zone 30 miles wide has been
declared north of the boll weevil line in North Carolina and the shipment of
cotton seed, hulls, cotton sacks of cotton in any form except compressed bales
from weevil territory or the safety zone to any part of the state is
prohibited, quarantine will be strictly enforced and violators will be
published and their shipments confiscated by the State Department of Agriculture.
At present the boll weevil infestation of North Carolina is
confined to Columbus, Brunswick and New Hanover counties, states Mr. R.W.
Leiby, assistant entomologist of the State Department of Agriculture, following
the completion of the survey of counties north of these made during the past
week.
The counties of Pender, Bladen, Robeson, Scotland and
Richmond were scouted at numerous places, the weevil not being found in any of
these. The boll weevil line extends slightly north of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad running from Chadbourn east to Wilmington.
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