Cotton scouts attend school in Midville
Dr. Phillip Roberts, kneeling,
examines a cotton plant with
participants in the Southeast Georgia Cotton Scout School.
Dr. Roberts is an entomologist
specializing in cotton with the University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension
Service. The school was held at the UGA College of Agricultural
and Environmental Science's Southeast Georgia
Research and Education Center in Midville last Thursday.
The scouts will be
combing through cotton fields on many Burke County
farms this summer.