Jes' a-lookin' for a home: boll-weevil trouble.(Louisiana struggles to finance program to eradicate boll weevils)(Brief Article) From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 27, 1998 | COPYRIGHT 1998 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

BORDELONVILLE, LOUISIANA

IN THE rain-thirsty cotton fields of central Louisiana, a series of green plastic cones, hoisted on poles, stand among this season's newly planted shoots. They are traps, marking the sites where state officials check the progress of their latest pest-control programme: a chemical massacre of the boll weevil. If all goes well, the traps will also mark the end of an era: the final defeat of the mightiest insect around. When it comes to destruction, not...

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