Cotton "shagger" calculating boll weevil numbers through boll damage
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Item information
- Title:
- Cotton "shagger" calculating boll weevil numbers through boll damage
- Description:
- Transcribed from Photograph: This boll weevil hungrily attacks a ripe cotton boll. Since 1892, the pests have destroyed almost $12 billion worth of cotton from Texas to Virginia; Transcribed from accompanying material: Slide B: Cotton shagger; To measure boll weevil numbers, this cotton "shagger" checks bolls carefully for punctures. Severe weevil infestations can reduce cotton yields by 50 to 100 percent.
- Topics:
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Agriculture
- Subjects:
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Boll weevil
Cotton
Cotton -- Diseases and pests
Insect pests
Insects -- Pictorial works
- Original Format:
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Black and white print (photograph)
- Item identifier:
- 0229963
- Created Date:
- Names:
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North Carolina State University. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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- Location:
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North Carolina
- Digital Project:
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University Archives Photographs
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- University Archives Photograph Collection. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Photographs, 1900-1999 (UA023.006) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).