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100-YEAR WAR: Legendary pest gone from Arkansas fields

By Matthew S.L. Cate

Posted: September 27, 2009 at 6:40 a.m.

After more than a century of crawling across Arkansas cotton fields, the boll weevil, that storied symbol of agricultural woe, has been defeated.

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(Credit: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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Front Section, Pages 1, 13 on 09/27/2009

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