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Dr. W. D. Hunter - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From The Madison Journal October 10, 1925

DR. W. D. HUNTER

Dr. W. D. Hunter who for nearly 30 years has been the foremost authority on the boll weevil and 
other cotton and field crop insects in the South and under whose administration the Delta Laboratory 
at Tallulah, has been operated, died suddenly from apoplexy at El Paso, Texas on last Tuesday.

Funeral services were held at his home in Houston, Texas, in which city he had his official headquarters.

Few men in the Department of Agriculture are as well and favorably known by the farmers of the cotton 
states as was Dr. Hunter. In addition to his duties as directing head of boll weevil control work 
he was a member of the Federal Horticultural Board, maintaining a force along the Gulf Coast and 
Mexican Border to prevent the introduction of the plant or other products through which diseases of 
plants and injurious insects from foreign countries might be brought into this country. Under his 
direction the Pink Boll Worm which infested two localities in Louisiana and several sections of Texas 
was successfully fought and eradicated, the only remaining infested section being confined to a 
comparatively narrow strip of south west Texas, along the Mexican border.

The control of the malaria and other species of mosquito was also one of his responsibilities, the 
laboratory for the study of this pest being located at Mounds La.

Dr. Hunter is survived by his widow and one married daughter.

The news of his sudden death was a severe shock to his many friends, in Tallulah and especially the 
members of the Delta Laboratory force who held him in fondest esteem and were his devoted friends 
and co-workers.