| 41. | Cotton production dropped in the 1920s because of depressed prices and a boll weevil infestation.
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| 42. | Mexico doesn't control its boll weevil population, he said.
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| 43. | For generations, Alabama schoolchildren learned about the boll weevil in their dark green Alabama history books.
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| 44. | People in Gadsden speak of it like they might a boll weevil attacking a cotton crop.
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| 45. | In any event, the Boll Weevil label stuck.
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| 46. | "This thing isn't a boll weevil eradication program.
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| 47. | They do this by tampering with nerve cells inside the hairs lining a boll weevil's nose.
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| 48. | It suggests eradicating the Boll Weevil Eradication Program.
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| 49. | Such talk was about as welcome as a boll weevil infestation to farmers like McLendon, 54.
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| 50. | The museum has the world's largest boll weevil.
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