William Anson Hooker
Published: 2017-11-08
Total Pages: 36
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Excerpt from The Tobacco Thrips: New and Destructive Enemy of Shade-Grown Tobacco In accordance with the authorization of the Secretary of Agricul ture and the instructions of Dr. L. 0. Howard, the writer left Wash ington, D. C., April 14, 1905, to investigate certain injury to shade tobacco at Quincy, F 1a. He arrived at Quincy April 16 and spent. The following two months in the work. Having reached what seemed to be a satisfactory result, he left there on J une 10. June 27 was spent at Palestine, tex., and J une 28 and 29 at Nacogdoches, Tex, in examination of tobacco fields. At Quincy the writer was associated with Mr. W. W. Cobey, tobacco-breeding expert of the Bureau of Plant Industry, from whom valuable advice and suggestions were received. The writer again Visited Quincy in October, 1905, and spent two weeks in a further examination. A continuation of the work was planned foii 1906, but could not be carried out, although a Visit was made at Quincy in November to determine the results obtained where remedial measures had been employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
