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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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Try Ziron today; on the money-bacV guarantee. * 7NU \bur Blood Needs 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 J. C. Ray & Cos. 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- J. C. Ray £? Cos. 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.