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May 28, 2002 Volume 26, Issue 37 |
Two Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station researchers recently compiled a reference book series on various aspects of cotton production.
Charles Snipes and Aubrey Harris are authors and editors in the Cotton Foundation Reference Book Series, published by the Cotton Foundation, an affiliate of the National Cotton Council. Snipes co-authored three chapters and was one of two editors for the edition on harvest management. Harris co-authored a chapter on boll weevil eradication in Mississippi, and was one of six editors for the edition on boll weevil eradication.
Snipes worked on "Cotton Harvest Management: Use and Influence of Harvest Aids," book five of the series, and based on five years of research conducted in 11 to 15 locations across the Cotton Belt. Data from this research was used to substantiate the harvest aid management procedures discussed.
Harris worked with James Smith, head of the Delta Research and Extension Center, to write a chapter about boll weevil eradication in Mississippi. The chapter appears in book six of the series, titled "Boll Weevil Eradication in the United States since 1999."
The book emphasizes the people, places and events in the boll weevil eradication story.