We don't cotton to boll weevil 'round here anymore. (Boll weevil eradication).

From: Agricultural Research | Date: February 1, 2003 | Copyright information

The farmer said to the merchant I need some meat and meal. Get away from here, you son-of-a-gun, You got boll weevils in your field. Going to get your home, going to get your home.

--Carl Sandberg's version of "The Boll Weevil Song," 1920

Agricultural Research Service boll weevil scientists have almost succeeded in working themselves out of a mission in the best possible way--by having helped to create a program that is closing in on its goal of eradicating t...

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