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rUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1924.
Riding Down 801 l Weevil By Airplane
U, S. Government Concludes This
Poison-Dusting Method Is Best
Means of Attack on the Cotton
Pest. Two Demonstrations in
Georgia Witnessed by Large
(rowds of Spectators.
e eed
Riding down the boll weevil in an
airplane is the latest method of assault
upon that I’CSkY lr!SCCt'
Up-to-date practice calls for the use
of the airplane 1n the battle with this
enemy of the cotton crop and two
demonstrations given by the govern
ment in Georgia the past week—one
at Athens on Tueésday and another at
Cordele on Thursday—were attended
by several thousand interested specta
ors. -
t [n a recent issue the Baltimore Sun
printed an interesting article on this
spectacular and dramatic .process—a
crusade of the air—of repelling this
enemy to the prosperity of the south.
The ravages of the boll weevil have
prought forth the best endeavors of
cience for the control and destruction
of this expensive insect, says the Sun.
Scores of methods and materials have
been tried as affording - possible pro
tection to the staple crop of the
south. The tests have found their
cimax in the official statement from
the United States government that the
airplane is the surest weapon of at
ack.
‘\\'it':;iu the last few years B. R.
Coad. in charge of the cotton insect
ivestigations at the government sta
tion at Tallulah, La,, has made exten
give tests of various poisons and of
many methods of application. Results
have shown that dusting with calcium}
arsenate will make possible a profit
able increase in the yield of seed cot
ton where the land is of low produc-‘
i
In a comparison on adjacent planta-‘
tions the fields dusted with calcium‘
arsenate by airplane showed an in
crease of 750 pounds per acre of seed
cotton over those that were not pois
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The dusting of plants to kill insects
i< an cstablished custom. The novelty
of the new method lies in the use of
airnlanes for the application of the
poison dust. In-the belief of skilled
workers in the department of agricul
ture the deveolpment will revolution
ize the fight against the boll weevil
and result in making the cotton crop
safe for the future.
Night Work Obviated.
In demonstrating the superiority of
the airplane for plant-dusting, the ex
perts have revealed the workings of a
natural law of prime importance in
this particular field. Other methods of
applying the dust to infested plants
required that the work be done at
night, when the moisture on the fo
liage caused the dust particles to ad
here. With the airplane night work
is no longer necessary. It has been
found that dust applied by flyers sticks
pericetly in daytime, regardless of the
dry condition of the leaves.
This reversal comes about through
electrical influences, according to the
government experimenters. The tests
showed not only that there was per
fect adhesion in daylight operations,
but that a pound of poison would go
farther when the leaves are dry.
Investigation has brought the con
viction that the better effect is obtain- |
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ed because the particles of powder
far'e_hxghly charged with positive elec
tricity, p;oduced by the friction of the
plane with the air and by the fric
tion between the dust particles and the
air-current. The plants themselves
carry a negative charge of electricity.
Under natural laws opposite charges
are attracted, the one to the other.
_For this reason the positive electricity
in the dust particles causes them to
be drawn into close contact with the
plants and held there, resulting in per
fect adherence.
In dusting the plants the airplane
often is not more than 15 or 20 feet
above the surface of the earth. The
long trail of calcium arsenate dust is
blown down into the plant growth
behind the machine.
Lower Speed Wanted.
The planes used are frequently army
machines, supplied and manned by the
war department, In dusting operations
the flyers move at a rate of approxi
mately 90 miles an hour. The dust is
discharged at high pressure and settles
down toward the earth or is blown
along by the swift current of air from
the plane itself.
Official circles are interested in the
development of planes especially
adapted to the work of applying the
dust. Manufacturers are taking an in
terest in the problems involved. These
makers are expected to make experi
mental changes in their machines with
a view to producing commercial air
planes of the most effective type.
One of the requirements is in the
matter of lower speed: The use of
swift war planes for cotton dusting is
suggestive of employing a costly lim
ousine for doing the work meant for a
five-ton truck. The objective sought is
the elimination of high speed and the
construction of planes affording max
imum efficiency at intermediate speed,
but with ability to rise quickly to
avoid obstructions in the pathway of
travel.
Helpful Factors Cited. .
An important advantage in the
plane of moderate speed will be the
better vision possible to the occupants.
Another helpful factor lies in the re
duction of waste resulting from over
running the area at the ends of the
fietd. Still another point made is that
lower speed will greatly reduce
the danger to pilots in landing. The
planes now used have a landing speed
of something like 75 miles an hour.
The ideal machine would travel at
from 50 to 60 miles an hour and land
at from 20 to 25 miles.
ONE-PIECE BATHING SUITS
AND KNICKERS FOR WOMEN
ALSO PROHIBITED.
HAMMOND, La.—Knickerbockers
for women definitely were banned in
Livingston parish today when the par
ish police jury, or board of county
commissioners, adopted an ordinance
that its opponents declare has all the
earmarks of ancient Puritan legisla
tion. Among other things the ordi
nance prohibits kissing, “petting” par
ties, one-piece bathing suits and the
exhibition by a person of more than
“one-fourth of a lower limb.”
Enactment of the ordinance was
asked by 514 citizens.
It prohibits,» under any conditions,
“3 woman wearing trousers, or bloom
ers, or what is commonly called
knickers,” declaring that one so attir
ed is “improperly clothed.”
Another section declared it “unlaw
ful for any persons other than near
relatives, when, or about any public
highway of this parish, or when in
view of any public place commonly
frequented by the public, to kiss, hug,
pet, pat, embrace or even fondle any
other person, or to allow any other
person to hug, kiss, embrace or fondle
themselves.”
“Participation in what is commonly
known and as called 3 petting party,”
also is placed under the ban.
The penalty for violation of the or
dinance is a fine ranging from $lO to
$5O or imprisonment of irom five to
thirty days, or both.
~ The experiments carried on by the
government covered approximately
five square miles. On one plantation
the fields were unobstructed by build
ings and trees. On another the land
scape was much broken up by woods,
barns and cabins, Both plantations
were infested heavily with the boll
weevil and the cotton leafworm. Ap
plications of the poison dust were
made whenever the condition of the
cotton seemed to indicate the neces
sity for the treatment,
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~ One of the 'great advantages of the
airplane for distributing poison was
found to lie in the circumstance that
'the. plane can be used when the ground
is in a condition preventing the use of
surface machines.
~ This was demonstrated aptly by an
incident which occurred on one of the
experimental plantations. A heavy in
festation of leafworm caused an ap
plication of an emergency coating of
dust. This work hardly had been com
pleted when a violent rainstorm vis
ited the field, washing the dust from
the foliage and nullifying the benefits
that would have resulted from the
thorough application.
Redusting was an immediate need.
The leafworm eats with amazing rap
idity. It cannot be trusted alone with
an unprotected and defenseless cotton
plant for a single day.
In the face of this emergency the
machines which travel on the surface
were altogether useless. The rain
which had washed the poison from
the plants had soaked the ground so
heavily that the movement of ground
machines was out of the question.
The soft and spongy soil would have
blocked the effort.
Quick Action Valued.
In this situation the airplane was
the sole recourse. Application of a
second coat of poison was achieved
through the use of planes as soon as
the landing field was sufficiently dry
to permit the making of a start. With
in 46 minutes thereafter the plane
covered a field of 111 acres.
The prompt action thus made pos
sible met the situation and saved the
crop. Firm belief is expressed that the
immediate redusting prevented heavy
damage that would have come if the
owner of the field had been compelled
to wait until the ground had become
sufficiently dry for the use of machines
operated along the surface.
Quantity Used Per Acre.
Airplane dusting is believed to be
IFAMILIES OF ARISTOCRATIC
' WINCHESTER DIVIDED AND
FRIENDSHIPS BROKEN.
Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, the New York architect, is dis
rupting an entire town in Virginia,
where he has gone to live. Released
from an insane asylum in Philadelphia
some weeks ago Thaw and his moth
er have purchased Kenilworth, a coun
try mansion, near Winchester, at the
head of beautiful Shenandoah Valley,
in Virginia, where he proposes to don
overalls and work on the 55 acres that
comprise his domain.
The town and the valley are peopled
by the “very best people” of Virginia,
land the coming of the man who figur
|ed in the most sensational murder
‘casc in this country in a decade has
created division and dissension in
church, social and business circles.
Bank President Calls.
The trouble began when J. B. Rus
sell, president of the Union bank,
made a social call on the Thaws. The
Rev. R. T. MacFaden, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, followed suit, and
the next Sunday Thaw and his moth
er appeared at the services. |
Thaw put a crisp $2O greenback in
the collection box, and other members
of the congregation, not to be out- |
done, doubled the contribution. ‘
The pastor is being severely criticis
ed, and his assistant comes to his de
fense with these words:
“It isn’t always wise to tear up
your flock by bringing in a disturb
ing element, but sinners must be
reached by the church.”
Thaw has joined the Charles Rouss
volunteer fire department, and the
| other firemen’s organization say that
the Rouss company took Thaw in be
!causc of his money. But the chief says
that if Thaw is not a good “smoke
cater” he will have to get out, money
‘or no money.
} S. P. C. A. Worried.
' The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals is worried and
watchful because it is reported that
Thaw will import a lot of chickens,
ldogs. cats and other creatures for his
country place.
’ Miss Augusta Conrad made a visit
to Kenilworth and saw a cat running
around without a tail. She thought of
‘bringing action against Thaw, but
Lch:mgcd her mind when she learned
the cat was a bob-tailed kind.
k Thaw's mother may conquer the
‘town for her son. She is a big, broad,
‘}white-haired woman, majestic of mien
and kindly of disposition, who real
izes her son was spoiled in infancy
apd that he never has been able to
get over it,
" Winchester is a quiet town of 7,000
‘population. It has one hotel, the
George Washington, where Thaw and
his mother have been eating their
meals until the country mansion is
made ready for occupancy.
Fi SR ISR
WILLS MONEY TO DOGS.
Mrs. Maude L. Vauz, of Brooklyn,
left a will in which she provided a
weekly allowance of $5 each for the
support of three Italian greyhounds.
To her mother, Mrs. Emma W.
Young, she bequeathed a weekly al
lowance of $lO.
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The sad thing about trying to be
cheerful all the time is you soon run
out of things to be cheerful about.
THE DAWSON NEWS
most economical, as well as most ef
fective. Estimates place the expense
of the work at approximately $5 an
acre for the season. At ruling prices
of cotton the gain from dusting was
more than $75 an acre.
The trail of dust sometimes spreads
the poison over a strip from 150 to
300 feet in width. The average width
of the normal swath is 200 feet. On
this basis the machine uses less than
four pounds of calcium arsenate to
acre, which represents a considerable
saving in poison as compared with the
amount required by the ordinary
ground machine.
Accepted practice involves starting
the dust delivery at the margin of a
field.
Interesting demonstrations of the
effectiveness of airplane dusting is af
forded by three adjoining fields shown
in another picture.
Plantation A was dusted by the air
plane method for the control of the
boll weevil and the cotton leafworm.
Plantation B was partly dusted by
rather ineffective ground machines for
the control of the leaiworm. Planta
tion C was left untouched.
Fields Compared. .
On the untreated field practically
every cotton plant was stripped of its
leaves by the leafworm with the ex
ception of the small areas along the
roadside, which nearly alWays are
skipped by attacks of this worm. On
plantation B the destruction of foliage
was less complete, but was so scatter
ed as to show that the poison was not
thoroughly distributed. On plantation
A the foliage remained practically un
touched.
This demonstration shows that the
control of distribution is well in hand.
In the strips marked XXX the swaths
did not overlap, and in the narrow
stretches thus neglected the worms
did their work of destruction. Com
plete dusting in the neighborhood of
surface, obstructions is illustrated by
the thorough control in the vicinity
of the cabin and trees in the fore
ground of plantation A.
While the boll weevil is the principal
object of attack the scientists declare
that the application of the calcium ar
senate controls such miscellaneous
cotton pests as grasshoppers, worms
and caterpillars.
Malaria mosquitoes are included al
so in the list of probable victims of
the crusade of the air. Tests conduct
ed in the sprinkling of poison by air
plane over swamp breeding places in
dicate that the airplane seems to af
ford the solution of the problem of
exterminating these dangerous insects.
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RATS EAT CAT CAUGHT
IN TRAP SET FOR THEM
When a mercantile concern at Ay
den, N. C., declared war on rats the
rodents drew first blood. Traps were
placed in the store, and a cat was put
on guard, One night the cat became
caught in one of the traps. Rats ate
the cat—all except the skeleton.
HOW ’BOUT WOMEN?
It has been computed that the aver
age man speaks in the course of a
year 11,Q00,000 words.
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