Bounty on Weevils

Forney Bank Offers 3 Cents Hundred for Infested Squares

Dallas Morning News
Sunday, 14 July 1907, Page 9

Special to The Telegram

TERRELL, Texas. July 13—The First National Bank of Forney is offering 3 cents per hundred for all cotton squares infested with boll weevils. Under this incentive “boll weevil picking” is becoming quite an industry in this county.