Excerpt from The Pink Bollworm: With Special Reference to Steps Taken by the Department of Agriculture to Prevent Its Establishment in the United States Of oil. The 1020 seed handled by this mill averaged per cent of Oil the 1921 seed, 14 per cent. Good seed formerly weighed, on an average, 25 tons per carload; now a carload is found to weigh but 21 to 22 tons. 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.