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Bulloch History with Roger Allen: A plague of boll weevils falls on Georgia, Bulloch County
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Roger Allen - photo by Special
(Note: The following is part of a series of articles looking at the history and evolution of agriculture in Georgia and Bulloch County.) By 1914, more than 5.2 million acres of Georgia farms were planted in cotton. But the cotton crop then experienced a devastating visitor from Central America: the boll weevil. First discovered in Texas in 1892, by 1915, this pest had traveled more than 1,000 miles to the Georgia border.
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