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The first boll weevil found in Mississippi was on September 20, 1907, by W. D. Hunter. By 1915 the boll weevil had covered the entire state. By 1920 all areas to the East were infested. The boll weevil had covered 600,000 square miles in approximately 30 years.
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In late 1908, Mississippi Delta planter LeRoy Percy wrote a friend about the approaching cotton boll weevil. Sixteen years earlier, the insect pest had appeared in Texas and begun a slow march toward Percy’s fields. As the weevil drew near, Percy worried that his family’s Delta cotton kingdom teetered on the brink of destruction. “Without question,...
There was no region of the country, perhaps the world, more devoted to mass production of cotton than the Mississippi Delta. By the dawn of the twentieth century, Mississippi landowners had transformed the Delta from an uninhabitable swamp into a modern, agricultural environment characterized by generous farmland, few landowners, and an abundance o...
Examining the history of the boll weevil’s arrival in the Mississippi Delta sheds light on the complicated relationship between the agricultural environment, society, and economic power in the early twentieth century South. Dealing with farm laborers had always been more important to the planter’s fight against the natural world than their understa...
Central to the South’s difference from the rest of the country in the early twentieth century were the roles played by farm laborers and race. This boll weevil story offers a glimpse into how powerful landowners thought about the connections between the vast plantations they owned and the people living and working there, who were mostly formerly en...
The boll weevil, a small grayish-brown beetle dependent on cotton plants for its food and reproduction, first entered the United States from Mexico around 1892. By early 1907 it stood poised to enter Mississippi’s rich farmlands. The pest had already destroyed an estimated four hundred million bales worth of cotton in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and […]
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