Whereupon, Madame Boll gave herself airs, and coquettishly moved aside a leaf or two, and displayed a most perfect and symmetrical rose.
When Madame Boll ended, I could see on the edge of one of her delicate leaves a drop of dew, and I said to myself, "How very like a tear!
The little squares that form the boll were taking shape.
Yes, I remember it," said the hill billy, plucking an extra large boll of lint.
The immediate cause of this movement was the suffering due to the floods aggravated by the depredations of the boll weevil.
The other disturbing factor in this situation was the boll weevil, an interloper from Mexico in 1892.
The boll weevil is an insect about one fourth of an inch in length, varying from one eighth to one third of an inch with a breadth of about one third of the length.
He said they would practice with the rifles; that when she became an expert rifle-shot the rest would all be easy, and then upon the boll of a tree at one side of the opening he pinned a red scrap of paper, and shot at it.
Through the hot month of July she had watched the boll grow and expand, until in August the lowest and oldest one next to the ground burst, and shone through the pale green leaves like the image of a star reflected in waters of green.
Cotton Growing under Boll Weevil Conditions--Looks like Billie Boll Weevil is here to stay.
By that time they have increased so rapidly that there is often one for every boll in the field.
I kep' on farmin' 'till deboll weevil hit dese parts and den I quit de farm and went to public work.
Mr Cook also found that the boll weevil was attacked, killed and eaten by an ant-like creature, the "kelep.
The cotton boll worm (Chloridea obsoleta, also known as Heliothis armiger) is a caterpillar.
The Egyptian boll worm (Earias insulana) is the most important insect pest in Egypt and occurs also in other parts of Africa.
Indian boll worms include the same species, and the closely related Earias fabia, which also occurs in Egypt.
The damage may be only slight, or the entire boll may ripen prematurely and become dry and dead.
Special interest attaches to experiments made in the United States to endeavour to raise races of cotton resistant to the boll weevil.
The Indians in part of Guatemala raise cotton, although the boll weevil is abundant.
The boll worm is widely spread through the tropical and temperate zones.
The bollworm is most destructive in the south-western states, where the damage done is said to vary from 2 to 60% of the crop.
A Bolle of átis pennys foure Of Scottis Monè past noucht oure; A boll of bere for awcht or ten In comowne prys sawld wes then; For sextene a boll of qwhete; Or fore twenty the derth wes grete.
A task of everlasting monotony, this bending from boll to boll along the endless rows!
At Hexham, a boll of barley or of oats was five bushels; of wheat four bushels.
At Alnwick, a boll of barley or oats was six bushels; of wheat two bushels.
The occasion of the meetings was the approach of the boll weevil to their districts.
The purpose of this was to meet the boll weevil with a territory in which he would find no food.
He had a bollof meal from Portinsherrich, from the son of a widow woman who was hungry in Inneraora and waiting for that same.
Of late years the greatest pest has been the Mexican boll weevil.
Every boll of cotton contains seeds resembling unground coffee; when these have been removed by the gin, there remains about one-third the weight of the boll in clean cotton.
Then again in the same boll all fibres do not ripen together just as all apples on the same tree do not ripen together.
Gathering the crop before the boll is properly ripened and matured.
And lastly, vast numbers of fungi, too numerous to mention here, work serious injury to leaf, flower and boll in certain seasons of the year.
It does most damage during the larvæ stage, eating up the tender portions of the boll while in residence here.
In Mexico what is known as the Cotton-Boll Weevil (Anthonomus grundis) appears to do great mischief to the Cotton plant.
As the name indicates, the Boll-Caterpillar makes the boll its happy hunting-ground.
Living as it does in the boll and in the ground for a great part of its existence, it will be exceedingly difficult to get at.
Blecker only smiled, and seated her gently on the mossy boll of the beech-tree.
When the fields were white with their fleece and each day might bring a storm to stop the harvesting, every boll picked might well be a boll saved from destruction.
The boll worm is very similar to the corn worm with which all housewives are familiar, and indeed corn is its favorite diet.
On the third day they fade completely, and the development of the boll begins.
The little gray beetle that the world knows as the cotton boll weevil is responsible for most of this.
Leaves and twigs as well as the shell of the boll frequently cling to the fiber, and are picked with it, and all these things tend to dirty and discolor it, and lessen its marketability.
Careless work plays its part, too, for cotton is easily dropped from the boll and soiled or lost altogether.
The Many Enemies of the Growing Boll Of the plants upon which humanity depends, the various species of the genus Gossypium have probably more enemies, and more relentless enemies, than any other.
In addition there may be numerous bits of leaf from the boll which have clung to the fibers through all the processing, and which appear finally in the cloth as little brownish specks, known to the trade as motes.
Illustration: The modern method of preparing the soil] Boll Weevil Literature U.
Profitable crops of cotton can be grown in spite of the boll weevil and cotton is not now a surplus money crop.
Attempts to Destroy Weevils with Poison:= In territory newly infested with the boll weevil, attempts continue to be made to destroy the weevils by poisoning.
This grub feeds on the inside of the square or boll and passes into the pupae stage in from six to twelve days.
But our experience in this boll weevil fight is that it is far better to have a wet period at this time than later, when the plant is much larger and the squares more numerous.
If he follows our plan thoroughly he will succeed, and in future will make his crop hopefully as he did before the boll weevil appeared.
For instance, many farmers in the boll weevil territory are now producing as much cotton on five acres by following proper methods as they formerly produced on ten acres, thus leaving half of their land to produce some other crop.
They say that theboll weevil has come to destroy their cotton--their sole cash crop.
The farmer who is out of debt when the boll weevil comes and has an abundance of high class food supplies on his farm is not materially affected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boll" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
