By burning the stalks, the food supply of the adult weevil is destroyed, and weevils in immature stages in the squares and bolls are destroyed.
Hibernation:= The immature weevils in the squares and bolls are usually killed during the winter.
On many farms and plantations there are not cattle enough to strip the cotton stalks thoroughly and completely of every particle of foliage, squares and bolls in a short time by pasturing.
They breed only in the squares and bolls and therefore cannot multiply until squares form.
Life and Habits:= The eggs are laid within the squares and bolls of the cotton plant.
Weevils' Food Supply:= The foliage, squares andbolls on cotton stalks constitute the weevils' sole food supply.
The weevil seldom deposits more than one egg in a square or boll until the squares and bolls become very scarce.
The boll weevil prefers squares to bolls and as long as the cotton puts on sufficient squares to furnish it with the necessary food it will not attack many bolls.
On the same day the garrison of Berwick brought out of the east end of the Mers six hundred bolls of corn, and took prisoner Patrick Home, brother's son to the laird of Ayton.
The bolls opened but narrowly and the fields had to be reaped frequently to save the precious lint from damage by the weather.
The disadvantages were the slowness of the harvesting, caused by the failure of the bolls to open wide; the smallness of the yield; and the necessity of careful handling at all stages in preparing the lint for market.
Four or five compartments held the contents of each boll; from sixty to eighty bolls were required to yield a pound in the seed; and three or four pounds of seed cotton furnished one pound of lint.
When the blossoms were giving place to bolls in midsummer, "lay-by time" was at hand.
The cotton bolls ripened and opened in series, those near the center of the plant first, then the outer ones on the lower branches, and finally the top crop.
For makyng clene of standards, candlesticks, braunches, with the bolls of laten upon the beame of the rodeloft, anenst the fest of Est.
Payed for six laten bollson the north side of the rode loft, viiiˢ.
Payed for scouring of the laten bolls in the said loft, iiiiᵈ.
How manybolls had you to buy in the course of the year?
For instance, if 20 bolls cost a certain figure, and 30 bolls cost another figure, if we add the amounts together, and take the average of the whole, we know what to sell it for.
I have bought two or three bollsof it within the last year or two, and I have paid somewhere about 13s.
For instance, would you not have got the two bolls at Mossbank, if you had bought that quantity there, as cheaply as you got them at Lerwick?
We generally take couple of bolls of meal from Mr. Leask and pay for them, or get an advance of them if no trade is doing in the town, or if any of us are in bad health.
Toward fall, when the heat of the sun is constant and intense, the bolls will mature and open in six weeks from the blossom.
About the last of August the matured bolls begin to burst or open their valves and suspend their cotton; and from that time the plant exhibits at the same time, blossoms, and bolls of every size, and every stage of maturity.
The operations of the former are mostly confined to devastating the leaves and buds, while the latter confines its special attention to the bolls which, were they allowed to ripen, would burst with cotton.
They attack different parts of the plant during its growth, and when the bolls are formed they commit great havoc among these by boring through and completely ruining the immature fibre.
After many months of anxious watching and waiting, towards the end of July or early in August, the planter may be seen to be constantly and wistfully looking for the appearance of the bursting bolls of cotton.
Daily in the early mornings he is to be seen casting his eyes down the pod-laden rows of cotton plants, to see if he can count a few ripe open bolls as he stands at the head of a row.
As a result there is much overcrowding, and as is inevitable, there is produced a stubby plant with small bolls and much unripe cotton.
The first flowers usually appear in June, and the bolls ripen from early in August.
These do not drop, but as the grubs develop the cotton is ruined and the bolls usually become discoloured and crack, their contents being rendered useless.
Also, inside the young bollswhich had been pierced a similar proliferation or growth of the tissue was set up, which enveloped and killed the pest.
The larvae suck the sap from the young bolls and seeds, causing shrivelling and reduction in quantity of fibre.
It has frequently been noted that even well-fertilized plants upon good soil will mature only 15 or 20% of thebolls produced.
Flowering and fruiting go on continually, although in diminishing degree, until the advent of frost, which kills the flowers and young bolls and so puts an end to the production of cotton for the season.
It is thought good that every minister should have at least forty bolls meal and twenty-six bolls malt, to find his house in bread and drink, and so much more as the discretion of the kirk finds necessary.
Now if I will sell some bolls of wheat and ship them to the Percies at King's Lynn, I must pay river dues at Sunderland according to the brass plate that is set in the Castle wall at Dunstanburgh.
And the lawyer Slone, standing upon that mound had bidden them go back to their byres and, peaceably, to do suit and service and pay their heriots and rent-hens and bolls of corn and the rest.
The old lady puzzled over this tale of capons, pence, eggs, bolls of wheat, oats and the rest that her tenants owed her.
One go like dis: "'De top bolls ain' open, De bottom bollsam rotten.
All that dark earth heaved in mighty travail with the bursting bolls of the cotton while black attendant earth spirits swarmed above, sweating and crooning to its birth pains.
Eight bollsto the acre maybe, but no straw to spake of, sir," said Cæsar.
The carriage containing the Deemster and the Clerk of the Bolls had drawn up at the west gate of the church, and a policeman had opened the door.
Then each of the others would call out the number of bolls they had picked during the same time.
He told Mama and Papa that I was lying and cheating, because he knew I couldn't count bolls while I sang a song.
In the cotton patch Mama and Papa encouraged us to see who could pick 100 bolls first.
The first one to pick his 100 bolls would call out, "hundred.
The dry stalks, sentinelling the seared ground, waved their tattered remnants of unpicked bolls to and fro--summer's battle flags which had not yet fallen.
And so the cotton being neglected, its lengthened and frowseled locks hung from wide open bolls like the locks of a tawdry woman in early morning.
Cause de sun, he am de only one dat can make dem little seed bolls bust wide open!
And when the cotton bolls on the hot low lands felt the sun shine and shine and shine, they burst wide open.
Three bolls of bear, and eight bolls of meal, were deducted for the same cause.
I lets ev'rything go in that happens, green bolls an' all: they weighs heavy.
Aye," cried the jovial James, "cousin Will is the only chief, and will make a rare lance when he hath eaten a score or two more bolls of meal.
I was saying," answered James Douglas, "that you would be a proper man of your lance when you had laid a score or two bolls of good Galloway meal to your ribs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bolls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
