Abstract

The Pest Act which was passed last year in the Madras Legis. lative Council has come into operation in some districts where Cambodia cotton is extensively cultivated. The object of this Act is to check the spread of boll worm which takes six weeks to pass one generation. Therefore the ryots are to pull out the crop by the 31st of July every year, so that there may be about two months' time from the date of pulling out the previous crop to the sowing of the next year's crop. But from the Agricultural News July 10, 1920, we understand that in the West Indies the practice is to pull out the plants and burn them. In St. Kitts, cotton stalks from an acre of unmanured land weigh 6000 lbs.

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