After more than a century, according to the ADG, Arkansas cotton fields are at last free of boll weevils. In 1906 the boll weevil arrived from Mexico and farmers fought against and suffered from this incidious insect year after year. Nothing was a bigger threat. But none have appeard in the fields this season.

I doubt that today the average person even knows what a boll weevil is. Well, that's progress. For information see here.