[The Fight Against the Boll Weevil ciation will have the support of the New York Cotton Exchange and the Association of Cotton Merchants of New York, it was announced here to-day after a meeting at the Ex-Members of the two or-resolution by Edward E. Bartlett, Jr. president of the Exchange, year's crop was comparatively light, the infestation during the last "three or four weeks of the crop was unusually heavy," said Colonel Harvie Jordan, managing director of the Bell Weevil Control Campaign of the American Cotton Association, in describing the pro-ress made in the last two years in combating the pest. "More weevil have gone into hibernation this winter than ever before in so short a time."
Colonel Jordan said that unless next year's crop was larger than the average for the last three years, would spell disaster to the Amer. tean und foreign cotton industry. Reuter's American Service,
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