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A THOUGHT
A merry heart doeth good like
medicine: gut a broken, spirit drieth
the bones. —Prov. 17:22.
He who sings frightens away his
ills.—Cervantes. _ ,
Conquering The
801 l Weevil
The Rome Tribune-Herald
warns South Georgia not to cele
brate “over the conquest of the
weevil,” observing that—
Down in South Georgia coun
ties the farmers are holding cele
brations over the conquest of the
boll weevil. Better not get too
enthusiastic about that. The
boll weevil hasn’t been conquer
ed. The pest is merely suffering
a reverse. Weather conditions
throughout the state have been
against the weevil and there has
been more intelligent war against
the pest this year, but that is no
indication that it won’t be back
in destructive numbers again
next year if constant vigilance is
not observed. Better than cele
brating 'the conquest of the
boll weevil was the action of the
farmers of an Alabama county
several years ago who erected a
monument in tribute to the pest
because it had taught them how
to farm.
The Tribune-Herald is right
and it is wrong. South Georgia
is celebrating the conquest of
1924, having in many counties
almost completely routed the
weevil this year. But South
Georgia knows that the same
methods must be used again next
year. The weevil is not routed
for good and all, any more than
the potato bug or various other
destructive forces which attack
vegetation.
The boll weevil must be met
every year, from now until “the
end of time,” so far as we now
know. It may be eliminated
some day, but there is nothing
now to ind cate such a pleasing
prospect.
But the Herald-Tribune, along
with many other papers, is wrong
when it takes the weather too
much into consideration. 1 The
farmer must learn that the
weather is no longer a controll
ing factor in the weevil fight.
Whether the season be dry or
wet, the same poisoning meth
ods must be followed. There
are those who think that hot, dry
weather eliminates the weevil.
Such is not true. Then there are
others who believe that cotton
can not be produced profitably
under weevil conditions during a
wet season. They are wrong.
Cotton can be produced under
any weather conditions provided
the correct poisoning methods
are followed, and many counties
in South Georgia have learned
this to be true.
In 1923 Carroll county led
the state in cotton production,
marketing something like 23,-
000 bales. Sumter county fail
ed, ginning only about one-half
that number, and 1923 was a
wet season, in both Carroll and
Sumter.
The answer to the riddle is in
the method of poisoning used in
the two counties. Sumter wait
ed for 10 or 15 per cent infesta
tion; Carroll began poisoning be
fore infestation.
This year Sumter will proba
bly double her 1923 production.
That the weather has helped to
some extent, there’s no doubt,
but the real reason for the in
crease is in the fact that Sumter
did not wait for the weevil to
get into the press. Recently
poison.
To conquer the weevil it is
necessary to poison its food be
fore it begins feeding— not af
terward. The weevil multiplies
so rapidly that once it gets a
start, it is almost impossible to
again secure control.
The cotton farmer must for
get the weather. Poison before
infestation begins and keep it
up at regular intervals. Never
give the weevil an opportunity
to find unpoisoned food. In this
way, and this way only, will the
pest be conquered.
There is much misinformation
regarding the weevil. Many
queer and unreliable statements
gets into the press. Recently
the Atlanta Constitution quoted
the following from the Ohio
State Journal, which shows how
thoroughly misunderstood is the
weevil situation, “not only in
the spates far removed from the
cotton belt,says the Constitu-
tion, “but unfortunately by news
papers within the belt :
‘‘An inscription on a monument
in Alabama reads a& follows:
“ Tn profound appreciation of
the boll weevil and what it has
done as the herald of prosperity
this monument is erected by the
citizens of Enterprise, Coffee
county, Alabama.’
When the boll weevil, whose
services to the Southern planter
are thus commemorated in en
during stone, first arrived on our
shores and went to work in the
southern cotton fields, he was
regarded a s a wholly bad charac
ter, a thorough-going scoundrel.
He played terrible havoc with the
crops and reduced the cotton far
mers to a state of desperation.
No means of combating him, and
many were tried, proved effect
ive. At last some one thouaht
of the rotation of crops and it
was found that the boll weevil
had to have his cotton or perish.
He did not like anything else to
eat, could not digest it and in
the year when something else
was grown in the field there was
nothing for him to do but turn
up his toes and die, which he
did. The farmers, discovered, to
their surprise, that the rotation
of crops was not only very bad
for the boll weevil and very good
for their soil and their pocket
books. It caused” their land to
produce more value to themselves
and from hating the boll weevil
they went to appreciating him
and feeling grateful to him for
his invaluable, if not wholly un
selfish services, as is proved by
what it says on the monument.”
Crop rotation is necessary for
the highest productivity, agricul
turists have taught for a genera
tion, in that it builds up the soil
instead of continually reducing
its crop-producing ability, but
the rotation of crops has no ef
fect on the weevil.
The weevil is whipped
through adhering to correct cul
tural and poisoning methods—
rapid cultivation, limited acre
age to the plow and adequate use
of calcium arsenate.
Sumter county has won an
outstanding victory in 1924 by
following these rules, and the
county bids fair to be one of the
two or three leading cotton-pro
ducing counties in the state this
years, thanks to the courage, en
ergy and faith of the Sumter
farmer.
Civilization’s
Compensations
On a hot summer day the
luckiest individual in the world
is the salmon trout. He always
lives in water at a temperature
of 40 degrees—only 8 above
freezing.
The salmon trout—called Na
maycush by the Indians—is
found in deep lakes all the way
from New England to norther
most Alaska. Usually he in
habits lakes that are the craters
of extinct volcanoes, from 150
to 1 000 or more feet deep.
In the spmig, after the ice goes
out, the surface water is cold
and the salmon trout is found
riding the top near shore. As
the days and water get warmer,
he gradually goes deeper. In
August the Indians troll for him
at a depth of 200 feet, using as
much as six pounds of lead for
sinkers.
Namaycush, progrssively go
ing deeper, follows the "40-de
grees line.” His body is so con
structed that he can live 1000
feet deep without being crush
ed by the pressure.
A city man, toiling in a hot
factory, store or office, has rea
son to sigh with envy as he pon
ders the lot of the salmon trout..
Physical comfort is not the only
important thing in life. But it’s
a tremendous item. People
couldn’t stand civilization if it
weren t for artificial “conven
iencs.”
Envy, too, the freedom of the
salmon trout. Nothing to do
but swim lazily in the cool wa
trs, picking up minnows sot food
as needed. No working hours.
No alarm clocks. No tax collec
tors. No propaganda. No bore
some political campaigns. No
tight shoes. No dirt and dust.
No heat!
While we re on the subject,
how about the lucky lot of the
Indian who trolls for the sal
mon trout? Up yonder in the
north, nothing to worry about,
except how to spend his pension.
Game laws do not apply to
him. The water is cool, the
sighing breeze pure and fresh
and with the scent of growing
things on shore.
The nights are cold even after
the warmest day. A campfire,
his meal sizzling in the frying
pan, northern lights, the bark
of a fox, the call of wild birds.
Freedom—that’s what the sal
mon trout and the Indian have.
And it’s what we have lost—the
supreme penalty of civilization,
and yet it has its compensations
—books, pictures, friends, music,
travel and a reciprocal love
never known by the savage. Just
to eat, sleep and be comfortable
is not enough.
R.E D.-®
A little old mailbox stands out in the road and it plainly is marked
“R. F. D.’ k A heap of real sentiment in it is sewed though it means
naught to you or to me.
A little old lady and little old man care not if the thing looks for
lorn. It’s served its purpose as any box can and a pathway out to it
they’ve worn.
Each day when the mailman is making his run he stops; then he’s
soon on his way. The rural old people rush out, and it’s fun just to see
what he’s left them each day.
A mail order house sends a catalogue fine. It’s bulky as bulky can
be. But nevertheless they will read every line and all of the pictures
they’ll see.
The other odd things that are carelessly hurled and that lighten
the mail master’s load, just keep rural people in touch with th e world
through the mailbox that stands in the road.
(Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
: CORN HAS BEEN MADE i
—EDITORIAL FROM THE ALBANY HERALD
NOW LET’S PROTECT IT
This year the farmers of South
Georgia have made the finest cron
of corn in many seasons. It is a
bumper crop.
It will soon be time to gather it
into barns, and on many farms
there will be embarrassment
to find room for corn storage.
Like the rich man of the parable,
many a farmer will be moved to
say, “I will tear down my barns
and build greater barns.”
But it will avail nothing if
after the corn crop is gathered no
steps are taken to protect it. For
it is a well-known fact that, par
ticularly in the South, corn which
is not protected from weevils rap
idly deteriorates, and will be ren
dered practically worthless if the
neglect continues for any length
of time.
Care in harvesting corn and in
protecting it from the shuck
worm is effective precaution, but
in most cases it is necessary to
fumigate the corn after putting it
under cover. This can be done
either in properly constructed
buildings, or by treatment in
boxes.
The United States Department
of Agriculture has issued a bulle
tin (No. 1029) on the subject of
“Conserving Corn from Weevils
in the Gulf States.” It was first
printed in 1919, but copies are
still available, and can be obtained
from Washington. Many county
agents have them on hand.
The method of fumigating corn
corn is thus described in the bul
letin, and the extracts may supply
all the information required by
many farmers. Certain it is that
the large crop of corn made this
year and probability that it will
bring a good price, whether sold
as grain or “on the hoof” makes it
highly important that it be fully
protected. The bulletin says;
“Many farmers will find at the
time of this coming harvest that
they do not have storage facilities
large enough to hold their entire
crop and at the same time tight
enough for efficient fumigation
of the corn. While the possession
of such cribs is economical in the
extreme South, there is little
doubt that many farmers father
north, where insect damage is less
can get along without them pro
vided they build gas-tight rooms
or large boxes in which they can
fumigate thoroughly portions of *
their crops as these are harvested
and brought to the barns. Such
boxes or rooms can be made to
suit the individual requirements,
do not have to be expensive, can
be constructed quickly, and will
supply a great need.
"When the farmer finds it de
sirable to fall back upon such an
equipment, he should fumigate
batches of corn as they come from
the field and then place the fumi
gated portions of the crop
in his regular storage quarters.
In other words, these boxes or
bins or rooms (whichever they
happen to be) serve as disinfect
ing stations through which the
crop passes on its way from the
field to the winter storage.
“Althouh it is preferable to put
corn from the field directly into
a gas-tight crib, room, or bin
where it can be fumigated and
left indefinitely, the method just
mentioned not only is.being used
by certain farmers but nas given
success in protecting corn from
weevils. The farmer who adopts
it, howeVer, must understand the
weevil problem thoroughly. He
must appreciate that no matter
how well he may fumigate corn
in a gas-tight room or bin, it is
subject to reinfestation the mo
ment it is taken out and placed
in a loosely constructed or open
bin or crib. It is seldom that one
fumigation ki’’s all weevils, so the
makeshift arrangement just de
scribed can not be’depended upon
for as satisfactory results as stor
age in a tight container. Thus
is true for the reason that weevils
can fly and will enter, from with
out, loosely constructed storage
places, and corn must be handled
over and over again as often as
it is necesary to fumigate it.
“Corn needs fumigation when
ever weevils or moths begin to
appear in the crib or bin. If corn
is only slightly infested when it
is stored in a tight crib, one fumi
gation will keep it free from in
jury throughout the fall and win
ter, as it has done in Florida. If
weevils are numerous and the first
fumigation doles not kill them all,
a secund fumigation should be ap-
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plied about two or three weeks af
ter the first. These two fumiga
tions, properly applied, will pro
tect the corn throughout the win
ter. During the following spring
the corn should be examined and
if weevils begin to appear with
the warm weather, the corn
should be fumigated again. In
southern Louisiana and in Florida,
where weevils are very abundant
and destruettive, certain growers
have kept corn in good condition
in tight cribs for a year with two
or three fumigations.
“Carbon disulphid,” or “high
life” as it is called by many, is a
heavy liquid that can be poured
like water. It must be kept tight
ly stopped up in the can, bottle, or
drum, because, like gasoline, as
soon as it is exposed to the air it
evaporates. If the stopper is not
absolutely tight, cover the surface
of the liquid with a thin layer of
water. This seals the carbon di
sulphid so long as the water re
mains unevaporated. When car
bon disulphid evaporates it forms
a foul-smelling gas that is heavier
than air. Because it is heavier
than air, if sinks to the botttorn
of the crib or bin that is -being
treated, the gas replacing the air
and smothering the weevils. Like
gasoline, carbon disulphid will ex
plode if fire of any sort, ns a light
ed match, cigar, or lantern or an
electric spark, is brought near it
when it is exposed to the air. For
this reason carbon disulphid
should never be used in a build
ing where there is a fire. Corn
should be stored in a crib detach
ed from other farm buildings so
as to lessen fire risk. If carbon
disulphid is being used with the
same caution as handling gaso
line, no trouble will result. Car
bon disulphid is being used by
many tg protect corn in large
cribs.
“Carbon disulphid does not in
jure seeds for planting or for food
While the odor of carbon disul
phid is very disagreeable, it pass
es off after the seeds have been
well aired. If seeds are dry when
fumigated they are not injured
either for planting or for food.
“If the corn is placed in a gas
tight, or nearly gas-tight, crib
or other container, 4 to 6 pounds
of carbon disulphid per 1,000 cu
bic feet of space is enough for
through fumigation. In loosely
constructed containers even 20
pounds per 1,000 cubic feet of
space is not effective. County
agents in Florida, where weevils
are very injurious, keep'’corn un
injured by using 4 pounds of car
bon disulphid per 1,000 cubic feet
of space in a tight container.”
SKILL
The skill of man seems to be un
limited when he once sets his mind
to a goal. Dr. Robert Chambers ci
Corneil University uses a microsco
pic knife so small that he can stab
a single disease germ. Compared
with the smallest steel needle, it’s
like a penknife alongside a plow.
The point has to be magnified 100
times before it can be seen.
Mechanically man is a wizard.
When it comes to the simplest pro
blems of economics, he’s as skill
ful as an elephant.
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OWNERS
. Four times as many Americans
own autos as pay income tax in 14
leading states. Not surprising, con
sidering the number of cars bought
“on time.” One dealer tells us 9o
out of 100 cars are purchased on the
installment plan.
Lack of fear of debt is a peculiar
characteristic of our generation. Ln
grandpa’s time a mortgage of Sioo
kept the head of the family awake
nights.
» » »
SPENDERS
_ Times have not been as dull as
many imagined. In July, Americans
spent $375 for every $321 paid out
in July, 1923, when times were
booming. This is revealed by bank
clearings, which include 95 per cent
of many transactions.
More than half of the money, in
bank check form passed through
clearing houses in the New York
Federal Reserve' District. That
ought to get a rise out of the west, 1
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- CIAUPCU SOGGESTS a renaeW—.
Old Days In Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
28, 1914.)
While Americus retailers have
not advanced the price of flour,
and will not while present stocks
hold out, it is true that the whole
sale price has advanced sl-35 per
barrel within a week, according to
the statement of Americus jobbers
yesterday. To recent advances in
the prices, 50 cents per barrel was
ordered yesterday and if wheat is
to be shipped to Europe there is
no telling to what heights flour
will rise. Americus dealers are
selling fine flour at $7, but job
bers declare the price will eventual
ly go very much higher.
W. T. Cahlhoun, who operates an
extensive farm near Americus re
ported yesterday the appearance of
caterpillars in one of- hrs field’s
where the cotton was of rank grow
th. It is said that the worms are
the dreaded species that wreak
havoc in the cotton fields, when
they appear earlier in the season.
The Georgia Agricultural So
ciety, which has just closed at zM
bany the 68th annual convention
of that body, honored itself as it
also honored one of Georgia’s best
men in electing to the presidency
Judge John A. Cobb, who for near
ly forty years consecutively has
been one it’s most zealous and use
ful members and contributing to
the agricultural interests of the
state his best efforts and endeavor,
both as a successful farmer, and
man of affairs.
Mrs. W. D. Ivey and Miss Ivey
are at home again after a pleasant
visit to relatives in South Carolina.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
28, 1904.)
The “war is over” so far as Am
ericus is concerned, it would seem,
for at least one lion and 1 lamb are
lying down together. Yesterday a
soldier of the gray and one of the
blue entered into business together,
one having a Confederate veterans
license and the other a Federal per
mit. And thus equipped they can
work in north and south together
f desired.
The congregat on of Bethesda
Baptist church, colored, will wor
ship tonight by gas light for the
first time. Quite recently this ad
dition was made, the walls kalso-
Notnnng agrees with a grouch,
not even what he eats.
The ice man can’t claim this cli
mate doesn’t agree with him.
Being rich consist- . f having more
than someone else.
Lots of these blooming straw hats
have gone to seed.
Strange things happen. I n Chica
go a woman arrested as a pick
.pocket claims- she has never b«cri
married.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
. Pay Phonci 88 and 211 .
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 28, 1914
mined and new carpets laid and a
few days since Rev. Darden and
his members raised sll7 and paid
the entire bill.
The oldest inhabitant does not re
member when 800 bales of covto i
were marketed here on any one day
in August as was done yesterday.
Mrs. Z. A. Littlejohn and chil
dren have returned home frorp their
pleasant sojourn of a month in the
north Georgia mountains.
Mr. W. W. Dykes, great sachem
of the I. O. B. of Georgia, with Mi.
Ed L. Kiker, of the Americus lodge,
returned to Americus yesterday
from Savannah where the yhave i’e
<®ently inaugurated a new lodge of
Red Men.
THIRIY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
28, 1894.)
In the armories of each company
composing the Second Georgia Reg
intent, an election was held last
night for major of two of the
three battallions connected there
with. There were but two candi-,
dates for these vacancies, Messrs, i
Price Gilbert, of Columbus, and
John L. Hardeman, of Macon, both
of who are very popular in milit
tary circles of the state.
Miss Louise Dent, one of Ala
bamas most beautiful women, pass
ed through the city yesterday en
route to Eufaula from a delight
ful visit to Washington. Miss.
Dent will visit Americus shortly as
the guest so Mrs Thomas Harrold.
A traveling salesman for an At
lanta wholesale house said yester
day that Americus was the liveli
est city he had visited in his rounds:
that there was decidely more more
thrift and business here than in
many towns of twice its size hi
his territory.
Capt. W. F. Simpson and family,
of Bronwood are among the sev- 1
eral newcomers here this summer.
Captain Simpson has secured a de
lightful residence in Leeton, and
will make this his future home,
engaging in life and fire insurance
A cordial welcome is extended him
self and family.
UOAfMN on improved
farm lands at cheap
est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10
jears with pre-payment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over $1,100,000 on
farms in Sumter coimtv alone, with
plenty more to lend.
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