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‘ COTTON BOLL-WEEVIL.’’
l’>y September Ist the lh>ll wee
vils have invaded the cotton fields
1< the extent to do damage as tar
north as a line ('com Chattanooga
to Atlanta to Augusta, and Octo-
Ihu Ist they are said to he in all
Cotton growing counties of Ceor
gia except Milton and Forsyth. It
lias been estimated by the* Federal
Crop Statistician for the stale that
the damage to the cotton crop by
Ihe weevils ill tieorgia this year
will amount to $20,000,000. Cer
tainly the weevils have had the
ideal conditions under which to
ill rive. An exceedingly mild win
ter and a severely wet dune. July,
and August. Ihe most adverse* crop
conditions perhaps in 25 years,
but the most favorable for the
propagation of the weevils.
What shall we expect nex year?
"Must we concede that cotton is a
thing of the past and become pes
simistic as some are inclined to do?
NEVER ! Cotton is our best rash
crop for practically lire entire
State and will doubtless remain so
for time to come. Many middle
and North (ieorgia farmers will
have to do though as some farm
ers in south tieorgia are beginning
to do, have other supplemental
cash crops they can depend upon
instead of dumping the whole bur
den on the one crop cotton, as has
been the custom. It is not sane to
switch entirely away from cotton,
for cotton can be grown if the
right precautions arc exercised in
the matter of acreage planted,
kc<*l ami fertilizer used, cultural
methods practiced, anil the proper
control measures carried out.
The fight on the weevil divides
itself into two parts: The first
effort concerns itself and is simply
good farm practice. That is. soil
building by a definite system of
cropping arranged in a well plan
ned rotation, the use of a good
early maturing variety of cotton
of sufficient vitality or constitu
tion 1 hal the plants will continue
to live and put on squares until
frost, the preparation of a good
seed bed, intelligent use of ferti
lizers. rapid cultivation continued
later perhaps than is the usual
practice.
Tire second part of the fight is
more direct and is divided into
three or four efforts. It is now the
lime of the year to get ready to
™ rr y to effect the first one of
lliese measures. Every one to the
*oulh and west of us who has tried
Ihe different methods advocated
* J, - V that there is perhaps more in
this measure than in all the others
Put together in so far as direct
control in next year’s crop is con
cerned. Wt it is conceded that it
the hardest one to get practiced
WHAT IS ITT It is the destruc
tion of the food supply of the
weevils three or four weeks be
fore frost. The food supply con
sists wholly of (1,,, juiee of the
cotton plant. This does not
mean that the cotton stalks
must he burned as good fanning
practice will not permit of this
and neither is it necessary. The
Ktalks can he nit with stalk cut
tei-s or disc harrows and turned
under with breaking plows, or
they can be cut and the roots rip
ped up with middle buxtors. When
the plant is killed the weevils go
in search of anew food supply.
This means then that they will go
into winter quart era with the man
who has growing, living cotton
plants when cold weather comes
and will he with him next spring
when it gets warm enough to thaw
them out. It may be the man who
starved them off his plaee before
wintering time will not have wee
vila until the migratory period
the next year. Which is from the
middle of July to the first of Au
gust. By this time the man can
have a fairly good cotton crop ad-
Taneed beyond the weevils ability
1o puncture. This 1 lion may bene
fit the individual, bui it is a great
deal more effective if every farm
er in a community will do the
ame thing in the matter of des
ttoying the food supply by killing
or turning under the stalks early.
To get best results the effort al
getting rid of the stalks must he
through, that is. kill all the plants.
Why not then get out the crop
and kill the plants as early as pos
sible Remember, this to he effec
tive, must he done before frost so
; far as the weevil control measure
is concerned, it is no good after
frost.
The second control measure in
the direct fight comes in the spring
when the firsl weevils emerge
from wintering quarters. This
may occur before the squares Ire
gin to form depending upon the
earliness of the spring. If so the
weevils will locate in the cotton
fields, or the part of the cotton
field nearest where hey have spent
the winter. This will he next to a
strip of wood, around building,
stumps or thick hedges. A search
should Ire made about these places
when warm spring weather arriv
es If no squares are on the plants
the old weevils will be found in
the terminal buds of the little
plants. They will not appear in
great numbers this early, the in-
fested spirts may he a hundred
yards or mine apart. The weevil
is grayish brown at this season
and is not hard to see sticking in
the top of the little plant. Just as
many of these old weevils as is
possible to find should Ire destroy
ed before the squares begin to
form. It is a good scheme to offer
the labor a little reward for all
the itld weevils found before
squares form.
After the squares form they
should Ire picked up once a week
and burned. This job should he
done throughly as the most in
signilleant square left is the most
dangerous one to leave for the
reason that the young weevil
would likely emerge from this
square before he next week. The
best time to do this is the first
thing .Monday moriuiug, and with
the white man with the hands. Do
the job, then go about other mat
ters until the next .Monday. This
is not such a hard .job. The squares
will not be all along the row, only
in the infested spots which, for
the most part, have been located.
1 bit a close watch should be kept
tor new spots as the weevils come
oul from winter quarters a few at
a time, just as they happen to
thaw out. Keep these squares pick
ed once a week, until about the
middle of duly at about which
time tin 1 weevils begin to fly. Me
lore this time they will stay close
around where they tirst located.
The old weevils are not so hard to
combat, they live only about long
enough to deposit! l eggs in enough
squares to insure reproduction. If
these squares containing these
eggs are not destroyed and two
or three generations of young
weevils get out. then llic hard job
comes. This is the importance of
keeping up w ith these squares each
week. This is the reason it is not
snfe to have more acres in cotton
th an one knows he can be sure to
get over quickly and do this
throughly. You may swear you
will not pick up squares as 1 have
described But you will. Do not
spend your money for a boll wee
vil catcher unless you are first ab
solutely convinced that you are
buying something that lias al
ready proven its ahality to do the
job before you buy. See it for
yourself, take no one’s word for
it. Then if you buy anyway, it
would not be a bad idea to go be
hind it and pick up any squares
it may leave.
The last direct control measure
it that of poisoning with Calcium
Arsenate. This is yet in the exper
imental stage. The Federal De
partment of Entomology has been
working with it at Tallulad, La.,
for the past five years. The College
of Agriculture is trying it out in
several counties in south (Jeorgia
this year. But neither of these in
stitutions are ready to say use it
extensively yet. Some individuals
have used it seemingly effectively
while others have not been bene-i
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA
fitted so much. I'se this on small
acres if desired and convince your
self before going too heavy until
more is determined as to its effi
ciency.
What can be grown as supple
mental crops to cotton. There is
no r eason why commercial peanuts
can not Ire grown on the light
soils of middle and north (ieorgia
is there. Why cannot tobacco also
Ire grown on these light soils? Why
not fry some peaches on some of
the red soils? Why not sou more
of each of the small grains such as
wheat, oats, rye, barley. Why not
plant more corn and market as
meal, feed corn, also through live
stock? There certainly is an op
portunity to use some of the acres
in growing feed crops for hogs.
It is not necessary to put in
such crops as have to be rooted
oul of the ground by the hogs thus
injuring the soil. Have you
thought that the sov bean offers
a good crop for middle and north
(ieorgia that will fit into these sec
tions as the peanut has in South
(ieorgia. both for grazing and as
a commercial crop for oil and
meal. Then why not put in a per
manent pasture on such soil as
will grow grass instead of continu
ing the use of the gullies and pine
orchards for pastures? The acres
to corn could very probably be in
creased. We say profitably be
cause it is a known fact that many
(middle and north) (ieorgia far
mers have to buy corn to make the
cotton crops. So we could at least
replace this much of the loss that
might be sustained from the da
mage of the weevils to the cotton
crop. Velvet beans, soy beans, or
tin- wonderful cow-pea could be
planted in all this corn thus afford
ing the best place to grow cotton
the next year in spite of the wee
vils. What about growing more
sweet potatoes and storing them
in a storage house properly built
for sale the following spring at
good prices?
What is the need to mention
more? This is enough to show that
there is absolutely no need for one
to lose hishead, go off at a tangent,
sell out and leave. Stay where you
are. do the job right, make the
farm self-sustaining, and grow all
the cotton you can as a clean sur
plus crop. IT CAN BE DONE.
Very respectfully,
V\ HILL IIOSt'H, County Ag
ricultural Agent.
BOGART BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching Saturday 11 a. m.,
“The Transtigeration of Man.”
Sunday •{ p. m., “Echoes from
the Macon Convention.”
The last services before Ihe
great campaign.
All members urged to be pre
sent. —\V. 11. Faust, Pastor.
Go and Do It
A mnn whs asked how he accom
plished so much in life. "My father
taught me.” was the reply, “when 1
had anything to do to go and do It.”—
Kxchnnge.
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Mr. Sim Orimsley, of Cordeie, Ga.,
tried Ziron and has this to say:
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WHEN NEURALGIA
ATTACKS NERVES
Sloan’s Liniment scatter*
the congestion and
relieves pain
A little, applied without rubbing, will
penetrate immediately and rust and
soothe the nerves.
Sloan’s Liniment is very effective in
allaying external pains, strains, bruises,
aches, stiff joints, sore muscles, lumba
go, neuritis, sciatica, rheumatic twinges.
Keep a fig bottle always on hand
for family use. Druggists everywhere.
35c, 70c, $1.40.
Sloan’s
Lin iment
Keep ii handy
NEGLECTING THAT
COLD OB GOUGH?
Why, when Dr. King’s New
Discovery so promptly
checks it
IT’S natural you don't want to be
careless anil let that old cold or
cougli drag on or that new attack
develop seriously. Not when you can
get such a proved successful remedy
as l)r. King’s New- Discovery.
Cold, cough, grippe, croup does not
resist this standard reliever very long.
Its quality is as high today as it al
ways has been—and it’s been growing
steadily In popularity for more than
fifty years. (10i\ and $1.20 a bottle
at all druggists. Dive it a (rial.
Tardy Bowels, Inert' Liver
They just won’t let you put “pep”
Into your work or play. Sick head
ache comes from retaining waste mat
ter and impurities in the body.
Feel right for anything—make the
liver lively, the bow-els function regu
larly, with Dr. King’s New Life Pills.
Smoothly yet positively they produce
results that cleanse the system ami
make the liver and bowels respond to
the demands of a strong, healthy body.
Still 25c.—at all druggists. Try them
tonight.
The Store That Sells
GROCERIES
There are stores where you buy
Dry Goods, stores where you buy
Hardware and stores where you buy
Groceries-
The Store of
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Is where you buy Fancy and Heavy
Groceries, because you can always
find the very best there and at prices
that satisfy you.
It is agreat pleasure to have satis
. fc*
tied customers and that is the secret
of the great success of-
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Corner Athens and Jackson St. Winder, Ga
SPLENDID SERVICE AT STA
THAM.
Sunday afternoon at 3 o clock
at the Statliam Baptist Church,
three strong addresses were de
livered on the 75 Million Carr,
paign by I lon. 11. S. Parker, of
Athens, ,). J. Nunnally, of Mon
roe. and the pastor Rev. W. 11.
Faust.
Fifteen members of the 115 sub
Serve Bludwine!
/ Ajahe greatest soft drink in *
(6m r X. A the world. It stands alone 1
| 'Wsk Q —a class by itself. A smack
[J >H| * n every sip.
i r/ haA The Summer'*
//V/ /ill * beet beverage
/ Dr. R. C. Wilson, Chair of Pharmacy, ,y I
"y 3)1 University of Georgia, says: “From
JJI L 1 an intimate knowledge of Bludwine,
A I * feel at t^ie c l a ' ms made for it as
jjfl /Ht P f°°d value and non-habit flti I||
rt'fully
Telephone your grocer for a case todayl
WINDER BLUDWINE BOTTLING WORKS, WINDER, GA
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th
scribed $.1250 of the Churches
quota of $2,500.
The Statliam Church will easily
go far above its apportionment v f
$2,500 on the 50th of November
when the drive comes to a close.
Tremendous enthusiasm is every
where manifest and the I’.apii
leaders feel that over $100,000,000
will result from the big drive.