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VAGARIES OF THE
BOLL WEEVILS
Boil weevils are wonderful in¬
sects and their ways are past
finding out. They keep those
who have come in direct contact
with them guessing and the
guesses generally do not hit.
We were on Saturday shown
a field of cotton in a neighbor¬
ing county that verifies these
characteristics of the pests.
It is a field that has been in¬
fested with weevils for three
years and last year and year be¬
fore the crop in the field was en¬
tirely destroyed by the pests. So
utter was the destruction in
parts of the field that no attempt
was made to pick what few bolls
the weevils left.
But in that same field scarcely
a weevil had been seen up to the
day above mentioned in which
we visited the field. That too on
top of the fact that not an ounce
of poison had been applied in the
field. It is a bale-to-the-acre
crop, growing rather rank, and
the stalks are heavily fruited
with nearly grown bolls and
squares and on the morning we
saw it the field was a veritable
bouquet of blooms.
A careful search over a space
the size of a large room found
only two squares that had been
punctured by weevils and ex¬
amination of a half dozen or so
nearly grown bolls showed no
trace of weevil injury.
We were told that many other
farmers in that section that were
utterly ruined by the weevils
last year and year before, are
having this same experience
this year.
This is but a concrete evidence
of the vagaries of the boll weevil
and the risk farmers take in try¬
ing to grow cotton as long as we
have them with us.
Farmers in sections of South
Georgia had last year an experi¬
ence similar to that we refer to.
Many of them, to their great
surprise, had practically no
weevil infestation and made nor¬
mal crops of cotton, They
mised that the weevil infestation
had left them and they planted
more acreage in cotton this year
to the neglect of other products,
A heavy infestation of their
crops shows them that they
made a mistake in their course,
Where they were damaged
hardly at all last year their crops
have been almost entirely ruined
this year and the farmers put
back to where they were three
or four vears ago when, depend
ing entirely on cotton as a mon
ey crop, raised nothing else and
lost the cotton.
From these vagaries of the
weevil our farmers should
warning. . They certainly should
not be tempted to return to any
thing like the all-cotton regime
of old because the weevil for
year lets them make a crop. The
experience of South Georgia to
mers this year shows
cingly the folly of doing that.
Our farmers cannot afford to
gamble on the vagaries of the
weevil. They may permit of a
full crop now and then, but they
are with us and there is no prom¬
ise but that they will be with us
forever hereafter. Farmers
must plan their farming opera¬
tions always with them under
consideration. They must play
safe by growing every year, it
matters not what the boll weevil
seems to be doing,
else besides cotton upon which
to depend. If the weevils de-
WEEVIL DAMAGE
LAST YEAR WAS
$ 750 , 000,000
South Will No Longer Be Worlds
" Leading Cotton-grower Un¬
less Weevil is Checked With¬
in Next Few Years.
>Iew York—Southern cotton
planters have suffered this sea
L n a loss, approximating at
present cotton prices, $750,000,
000 through the ravages of boll
weevil and drought, President
E e. Bartlett, Jr., of the New
York cotton exchange declared
today in a statement urging the
use of more funds to fight the
'^Unless the effectively damage done checked by
the weevil is
within the next few years,
America’s supremacy as the
world’s leading cotton-grower is
seriously threatened, Mr. Bart¬
lett declared.
“Never since the weevil first
made its appearance in the cot¬
ton belt, about 1892, has such
great alarm been felt as exists
today among cotton planters,”
Air. Bartlett said. “After years
of procrastination the national
government, the state govern¬
ments and the leading cotton as¬
sociations are at last beginning
to realize the dire need for dras¬
tic action in every section of the
cotton belt to reduce the weevil
menace to a minimum.”
In view of the huge loss which
annually confronts the nation,
Mr. Bartlett said the amount
devoted to fighting the weevil
|“seems infinitesimally small.”
“It would be a real economy,”
he declared, “and a great benefit
to the nation and world, to de¬
vote millions of dollars to exter¬
minate this, enemy of the cotton
[plant.” Contributed $100,000
President Bartlett said the
[New York exchange this year
ontributed $100,000 to fight the
best and that the state of Geor¬
gia, the second largest cotton
jgrowing state, has contracted
for 50,000 tons of calcium ar
enate, considered the most ef¬
fective known instrument for
ombatting the weevil, to be de¬
livered over a period of five
ears. The United Steel Cor
loration through Chairman
lary has notified the American
[otton Association it would con
ribute $25,000 annually for the
ext three years to the boll
veevil campaign, Mr. Bartlett
aid.
“The far-reaching blight of
he weevil” he said, “touches
ven the steel corporation. There
re eight steel ties on each bale
t cotton, and the crop loss this
'ear, due chiefly to the weevil is
stimated at about 6,000,000
ales. This means that cotton
[rowers will require 48,000,000
ewer steel ties to bale the crop.’'
The boll weevil, Mr. Bartlett
sserted, is the most dangerous
f pests because it thoroughly
ortifies itself against exter
ination. Unfortunately, he
aid, there is a great shortage of
:alcium arsenate and if other
tates were to follow the i
mple of Georgia in ordering the
roduct, there would not be
nough produced in the world
o cover the infected parts of the
otton belt.
Experiments to combat the
reevil by using aeroplanes to
pread poison gas over infectet
reas have not yet demonstrate!
he effectiveness of the method,
h. Bartlett said, and if eventu
% that plan should prove suc
essful it would require a fleet
f hundreds of planes and
as production to put into
ion over the entire cotton
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sign to let a good yield of cotton
be made so much the better,
but should they design other
wise when the farmers have de¬
pended upon the pests having
forsaken them they are sure to
bring disaster upon hemselves.
Since we have been forced by
the boll weevils to make a start
towards getting away from the
one-crop menace to prosperity
upon the farms let’s not turn
back but keep on going further
from it. No other farm product
may offer as good returns as
cotton,but we must recognize the
fact that the weevils have made
that crop too much of a gamble
for it to be depended upon whol¬
ly. To be safe we must grow
other things, even though they
may not promise to be as profi
able, to fall back upon in case
the cotton is a failure.
In other words the weevils
have us guessing with too much
of an unknown basis upon which
to make our guess for us to pro¬
ceed upon what we may guess.
They are wonderful and mighty
insects and their ways are past
finding out.—Oglethorpe Echo.
MISS RENIE HINTON
PASSED AWAY FRIDAY
Miss Renie Hinton, one of the
county’s best loved young ladies,
died on August 17 at Davis
Fischer Sanitarium, Atlanta.
Although she had been in de¬
clining health for about four¬
teen weeks, her serious condi¬
tion was not realized until her
death came as a shock to her
relatives and friends. She bore
her sufferings without a com¬
plaint, and was in good spirits
when she was carried to the hos¬
pital Tuesday for treatment.
She talked of what she was
going to do when she was well
and at home again. She was op¬
erated on Wednesday morning,
and blood poisoning is believed
to have set in. Death came at
one o’clock Friday morning.
She was conscious until the
last, and told her mother she was
and not afraid to die.
The funeral was held at Sa
lem church, of which she was a
member, at ten Saturday morn
dig, by the pastor, Rev. Tumlin.
Interment was in the church
cemetery. The last resting place
of her tired body was made a
place of beauty by the floral of
ferings of loving relatives and
friends.
Miss Hinton was 21 years of
age, and had been a member of
Salem church for four years. On
every side you could hear people
saying, “She was a sweet girl.”
Tis ours to miss thee, all our years,
And tender memories of thee keep.
Thine in the Lord to rest, for so
He giveth His beloved sleep
Sweetly sleep, but not forever,
In the lone and silent grave,
Blessed be the Lord who taketh,
Blessed be the Lord wh0 gave .
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That we tended with such care,
Rudely taken from our presence
How our aching hearts despair.
Yet we hope again to meet thee,
When the day of life has fled,
When in Heaven with joy to greet
thee,
Where no farewell tears are shed.
Peaceful be thy silent clumber,
Peaceful in thy silent grave
Thou no more shalt join our number,
Thou no more our sorrows know.
Parents, let thy falling tears be
dried,
Let thy sad hearts
Our Saviour ne’er has one denied
Who would His love and mercy own.
For she has gone to worlds more fair
Than this proud world below;
By faith we see her waiting there,
In robes as white as snow.
To welcome us when from this earth
We, too, will have to go,
To find a truer, nobler berth
Beyond this vain and empty shore.
Sorrowing parents, murmur not
God chasteneth whom He will;
Let your sad and lonely lot
Ever be His holy will.
She leaves a father and moth¬
er, one brother, Thomas, and a
host of other relatives who share
in our tenderest sympathy.
I used to be with you so often,
Rene, those wonderful, loveable
days, and it makes me sad, so
sad, that you have gone away.
A Friend.
MILK IS NECESSARY FOR
GROWING CHILDREN
The first need for the dairy
cow in the south is to supply
milk for the growing generation.
This is the greatest farm prob¬
lem now awaiting solution by the
Southern farmers. It is import¬
ant to feed our live stock econ¬
omically, but it infinitely more
important to feed our folks right
Instead of less than a pint of
milk per day per head, such as
we now produce, we should con¬
sume at least a quart per head.
Dairying will have to be doubled
or trebled before it will be pos¬
sible to feed the people of the
South the least amount of milk
necessary.
To do this, w r e can well afford
to grow the right kinds of feeds
and give some thought to the
feeding and care of the dairy
cow.—The Progressive Farmer.
The charcoal we put in the
office cistern a few weeks ago
improved the water so much that
we are thinking of adding some
raisins and a prune or two.
LIBEL for divorce
Newton Superior Court, Sept. Term 1923
W. B. Matthews, Jr. vs. Mrs. Aurelia
Matthews.
To Mrs. Airt-elia Matthews:
Pursuant to an order granted by the
Hon. John B. Hutcheson Judge of the
Superior Courts in vacation: For pub
lication of service as required by
You are hereby notified, laying all other
business aside, to be and appear at the
next term of N e h^ t0 P Mondfy OU r
to be held on t Third i n
September, 1923, to answer this pe-
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