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-THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. 24. 1021.
TWELVE MONTHS REMEDY FOR FIGHT
ING THE BOLL WEEVIL.—NAIL THIS UP.
An actual plan for fighting the weevil every
month in the year. With everybody fighting ev
ery month in the year more profit can be made
growing cotton than before.
Let us begin in October for another crop.
OCTOBER:—
Make winter quarters. Haul wheat
straw, leaves or trash, placing it in
piles about the size of hamper baskets
on terraces and different places in the
field, furnishing them winter quarters
no they will not have to bore into the
ground to live through the winter.
NOVEMBER:—
(Jet every boll that has not matured,
and burn them. This is positive de
struction to a large per cent of them,
as you find fi*>m one to ten In those
unmatured bolls. Plow if weather will
permit.
DECEMBER :
Cut or frail all stalks. Plow when
weather permits.
JAM ARY: —
Burn trash piles or winter traps you
piled up in October and all other hedg
es and vegetation that will burn.
FEBRUARY
Make money this month lighting the
weevil with a poultry crop. Guineas
are more profitable, they lay more eggs
than bens and destroy more weevils.
Build guinea houses in y'our cotton
field and place guineas there and train
them to stay in field ami raise large
numbers. They not only eat the weevil
but the noise tends to drive them away.
It is history that where guineas range
in a cotton field the weevil does less
damage. Let this money guinea crop
bring you u large money cotton crop.
MARCH:—
Plow fields and plan for early plant
ing. Also look after guineas.
APHII.:
Plant nine rows out of every teu first
of April of some big Ixdl variety as big
bolls usually have thick, tough burrs
and the weevils cannot puncture them.
And don’t forget the guinea crop.
MAY: —
Plant that tenth row last of April.
This row must be a month or six weeks
later than the other crop of cotton.
Jx>ok after the young guineas.
JUNE:—
As cotton puts on squares apply a
small amount of poison for the few
weevils that have escaped the fire. One
drop will do more good this season
than n gallon later. The weevil that
has lived through the winter only lives
twenty-one days after he punctures the
first square. The eggs hatch out in
the same length of time. By picking
up and burning up all squares at this
period you will destroy all the young
weevils. Plow often with sack drag
ging over rows.
JULY: —
Continue picking up squares, plow
ing often with sack attached to gear to
disturb and knock them off.
AUGUST:—
At this season they travel like birds
from field to field, and are as harmful
jn one field as another, regardless of
folks who have picked up squares.
Keep them moving: serenade them
twice each week with bells, tin pans or
other things that will create loud noise
Take a small pole or cone long enough
to reach across four rows, fasten sacks
on this so that one party can drag four
rows at one time. Go over the field
with this drag outfit and let someone
follow behind with the noise. They
can be driven with mdse and run com
pletely out of field. It is just as fair
for you to drive them out of your field
into your neighbor's who lias remained
idle in June allowing them to accumu
late in his field and come to yours. So
this is the month for everybody to
get busy. The more you disturb and
keep them going the less cotton they
will puncturcv This hhs been thor
.oughly demonstrated and proven and
*ftn noticed avouml school housed
where children play. Plow cotton and
keep It growing and putting on new
squares.
SEPTEMBER :
At this season of the year the early
planted cotton Is ripe and maturing.
fThe row you planted late will he In
growing condition. Tills will furnish
squares and keep them form punctur
ing other bolls. Spray this tenth row
as the weevil will be on it. and spraying
this row will not lie as expensive as
spraying the whole crop.
These remedies have all been tried
out and proven effective. The trouble
had been; one applying one thing and
another applying another thing, hence
nobody got desired results.
The October winter quarters which
answers as traps and February guineas
in cotton field. June picking up the
squares and with August serenading
are the most effective things to be done.
If every farmer will adopt this pro
gram the boll weevil will be reduced to
a minimum. They will never be en
tirely extinguished bufl gt**d coU° n
crops can be made.
With the present indication for a
Jitter price for cotton in the future
and this section growing more cotton
$10,000,000 AID
FOR VETERANS
Red Cross Provides Friendly
Service of Many Kinds to
Army of Disabled.
BULK OF WORK BY CHAPTERS
2,397 of These Are Helping Ex-
Service Men Obtain Bene
fits U. S. Provides.
One field of Red Cross service alone,
that of assisting disabled veterans of
the World War, entails expenditures
$4,000,000 greater than the aggregate
receipts of the Annual Roll Call of
1920, the American Red Cross an
nounces in a statement urging a wide
spread Increase in membership at the
Annual Roll Call, November 11 to 24.
At the present time National Head
quarters and the nation-wide chuln of
Chapters of the Red Cross is spend
ing approximately $10,000,000 annual
ly for the relief of disabled ex-service
men and their families, while the ag
gregute receipts from last year's Roil
Call were approximately $6,000,000.
It Is in the 2,289 of the 8,600 Red
Cross Chapters which still are helping
solve the veteran’s problem of adjust
ing himself to a normal civilian status
that the greater part of the cost of this
service Is borne. Of tlie total sum
apent for veterans’ relief last year,
National Headquarters expended a to
tal of more than $2,600,000, while the
remaining disbursement of approxi
mately $7,000,000 represents the con
tribution of Chapters in this country
wide effort to assist the Government
In providing the aid sorely needed by
these men and their families.
An Evr Expanding Problem
That the problem of the disabled
service man Is ever-expanding and
probably will not reach the peak be
fore 192?>, Is the assertion of well-in
formed Government officials and that
2,397 Bed Cross Chapters regard It
as their most Important work Is evi
dence that the expansion Is In nowise
confined to a particular section but Is.
on the contrary, nation-wide. At the
end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1921,
there were 20,300 disabled service men
In the 1,092 United Stutes Public
Health Service, Contract and Govern
ment Hospitals and Soldiers Homes,
Hnd that number Is Increasing nt a
rHte of 1,000 a month.
Thousands of these men receiving
medical treatment, compensation and
vocational training from the Govern
ment today, started their efforts to
obtain them through the Red Cross
Chapter. The Chapter, acting as the
disabled man’s agent In claims against
the Government, informs the man ns to
the procedure necessary to gain for
him that which Is provided him by
Federal statute. His applications for
compensation, medical treatment and
training are properly filed with the aid
of the lied Cross Chapter.
Many Forma of Assistance
If there is delay before the mnn'i
claim Is acted upon, the Red Cross
Chapter lends the man money to meet
the Imperative needs of himself and
Ids dependents.
Most vital to the man's gaining full
benefit from the Government's care is
keeping his mind free from worry about
his home. Keeping the veteran’s fam
ily from hardship of every kind and
Informing him of Its welfare Is an
other province of the Chapter. Free
from fear on this score, the man's re
covery and advancement usually Is
rapid.
Every month during the Inst year,
the American Red Cross has given
service of one kind or another to an
average of 129.215 former service men
and their families. An Indication of
the extent of the faith reposed in the
Red Cross Chapter Is to be found in
the fact that there were 356,544 re
quests for friendly aid in the solution
of personal problems.
to the size of the stalk than any sec
tion, it is in our favor to fight, as it
will umount to more here than where
the cotton grows largo.
As the weevil is all over the cotton
belt it means a fight every where If
any cotton is grown. This will guar
antee a good price and this section is
in the lead on cotton if all will co-op
erate on some program of defense and
not surrender to the weevil, allowing
him to rule. Euless something is done
it will be worse next year than this.
WHY NOT ALL GET TOGETHER?
For
Friday g Saturday
November 25th and 26th, 1921
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The Revenge of Lycurgus.
"Which of us does not admire what
Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young
citizen had put out bis eye and been
haDded over to him by his people to
be punished at his own discretion. Ly
curgus abstained from all vengeance,
but on the contrary Instructed and made
a good man of him. I'roduclng him
In public In the theater, he said to
the astonished Spartans: “1 re
ceived this young roan at your hands
full of violence and wanton insolence;
l restore him to you In his right mind
nd fit to serve his country.”—From
“The Golden Sayings of Epictetus."
Numbering Spool Cotton.
The number of cotton thread ts
jased on the size of the yarn from
which the thread Is twisted. The flu
shed thread was originally all three
ply and carried the yarn size—that Is
to say, three strands of size BO yarn
were twisted together and called No.
V) thread. When six-ply or stx-cord
mme Into use It was decided not to
change the numbering of the thread,
in* to ne six strands of yarn size 100
.o uma* the No. 50 thread.
THE WINDER NEWS
••Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
We understand that the expression
“tweedledum and tweedledee" Is used
to designate two things hetween
which there is the smallest possible
difference, and Is applicable to dis
putes over trifles. It is also applied
to nonsensical discussions such as the
old logicians Indulged in. a g.. when
a farmer tßkes a pig to market. Is the
pig going with the farmer or the
farmer going with the plgT—The Wire
Message.
Discipline.
No one ever begins to climb at tha
tap, but an observant business man
remarks that the trouble with many
of our young people ts that they de
not seem to be aware of that fact
They are so assured of tbclr own abil
ity, and high desert that they claim the
wrong end of the ladder.
Discouraging to Authors.
Lawdyl Lawdy! Now they're go
tog to finger-print the new-born babies.
What are our future novelists and
feenario writers going to do when the
mixed InfaDts' plot becomes no longer
plausible? —Bust on Transcript.
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Birds and Traps.
Curiously enough, many birds. In
stead of fearing traps, develop a fond
ness for them, probtfbly because they
find them a source of ample feed
which can be secured without danger
to themselves. While this trait occa
sionally Is something of a nuisance
to the trapper, It often Is of great as
sistance. It Is believed that birds,
having learned to recognize traps, will
be apt to go to them for feed In the
course of their migrations, and so,
when caught, will furnish material for
ttrnithologlsts’ reporta.
A “Good Sport*
Here’s a seasonable definition by Oli
ver Wendell Holmes: “To brag Uttle,
t show well; to crow gently. If In
luck; to pay up; to own up; to shut
up—lf beaten. That ,Is the highest
type of sportsmanship.” Boston
Transcript
Cam Be Done.
■One of the biggest problems,” said
Jnd TunkiDS, "Is to make the average
man enjoy doin’ regular work as much
ts he does figurin’ out puzzles."
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Protection for Antarctic Fauna.
It ts likely that the Australlar
commonwealth will, at the Instigation
f Sir Douglas Mawson, the antarc
"lc explorer, preserve Macquarie Island
tnd the neighboring Islets as a sanc
hiary for the subantarctic fauna. The
sland, which has an area of nearly 400
legrees S.. 900 miles from Tasmania
ind nearly the same distance from
iatsrctlctt. It Is the home and breed
tog ground of many millions of pen
ruins of different species. Including tha
low rare king penguins, and of vast
lost* of sea-elephants and seals.
Advice.
If thou wouldst be justified, ac
knowledge thine injustice. He that
confesses bis sin begins his Journey
toward salvation. He that Is sorry for
It, memls his pace. He that forsakes
It, U at his Journey's end.—Quarles.
It may seem funny to some people,
but to the horse editor of the Thomas
Cat it appears like the folks In Hot
Springs that have a license to be stock
sp doD’t use It —Arkansas Tbomae
Cat.