1902: “There is no question but from this time forward the boll weevil is to be a permanent factor in cotton culturation. Fifty-two counties in Texas affected by them in 1901 and sixty-nine this season.” They were in Bosque and Hamilton counties in 1901. “These pests are already uncomfortably close to us . . . That the weevil is to be a permanent factor in cotton raising in Erath County hereafter is certain.”

Erath Appeal