"Boll" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cotton growers are suffering a loss of one hundred million dollars a year by reason of the ravages of the boll weevil. Why? Because the quails, the prairie chickens, the meadow larks and other birds which were formerly there in millions have been swept away by gunners. The grain growers are losing over one hundred million dollars a year on account of the work ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... larva is the little apple worm, causes an immense loss in our fruit orchards. The cotton-boll weevil, which destroys so much of the cotton, is, like the codling moth, an insect imported from another country. The San Jose scale reached California from China and has now spread throughout our country. It has a special fondness for the sap of fruit trees, and, being so small, was not ...
— Conservation Reader • Harold W. Fairbanks
... how the world would knock her about, if he did not keep his hold on her! But he would do that; to-night he meant to lay his hand upon her life, and never take it off, absorb it in his own. She moved forward into the clear light: that was right. There was a broken boll of a beech—tree covered with lichen: she should sit on that, presently, her face in open light, he in the shadow, while he told her. "Watching her with hot breath where she stood, then going ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various |
