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COTTON LOUSE ENEMY
Oue Insect That Proves to Be j
1
the Planter’s Friend.
1
THE CONVERGENT LADY-BUG
Instead of Being Injurious to the Cot¬
ton Plant This Little Bug Is
of Inestimable Benefit to
Same.
Every one knows that the cotton, in
common with nearly all other kinds of
plants, is subject to the attack of in¬
sects, but very few realize the Im¬
mense variety of them that depend
more or less upon this staple for food.
The cotton worm, cotton boll worm,
Mexican cotton boll weevil, cotton
louse, etc., are but a few examples of
the most common, but fortunately only
a few are at all apt to appear in serious
numbers, and these are very variable
in their appearance. Sometimes they
occur in such abundance as to appear
to jeopardise the entire crop in a
more or less extended area, while
again their numbers are so insignifi¬
cant as to pass unnoticed.
This striking variability is due in
part to a great many causes, some; ot
them easy to understand, others more
obscure In their nature. Nothing is of
greater importance, though, than tha
weather conditions at certain seasons of
the year. Most insects thrive on a dry
and warm season, while the opposite
is true of fungous diseases, bast year
the excessive rains and long continued
periods of cloudy weather made tha
conditions very favorable for the latter
mentioned, and the result was an out¬
break, .quite serious in some sections,
of the fungous disease known as cotton
anthracnose. This season the dry and
hot weather which has continued
throughout May and June, will, unless
July and August are "extremely wet,
render a recurrence of this disease
extremely improbable, but it has been
very favorable to the insects.
Luckily most of the insect pests are
restricted to a few generations per
year, and it Will on that account re¬
quire more than one favorable season
for such varieties to increase to alarm¬
ing numbers. A few are, however, dif¬
ferent in their nature, producing a new
generation every ten days or two
weeks, and these sorts will, unless
some other natural cause Intervenes,
increase many thousand fold in the
course of a favorable season.
The cotton louse belongs to the lat¬
ter class. This insect only requires
about ten days to develop from a new¬
ly born young to an adult capable of
producing young on its own account,
and the rate of increase would be al¬
most beyond computation did not nat¬
ural causes intervene and prevent
such a disaster. It is very safe to
say that without such intervention
this insect alone would practically
ruin the cotton crop the first season
that it was allowed free sweep.
But nature takes care of her own,
both plants and insects, and such a
calamity as that jlist mentioned will
probably never take place. So sure as
an insect passes the bounds pre¬
scribed for it, and threatens serious
destruction of the varieties of planis
which serve as its food, some ob¬
stacle arises which prevents further
increase, usually in the form of some
predacious enemy or more commonly
yet, of sonic dread contagious disease
which sweeps through the insect ar¬
mies and leaves hardly survivors
enoughh to continue the race. It is
only by some action of mankind that
the balance of nature is destroyed, as
when some pernicious insect is intro¬
duced into a new country, or large
areas of land are made to produce
crops not eminently fitted for just that
locality.
• A very good illustration of a natu¬
ral check to the too rapid increase of
& noxious insect lias been called to the
attention of the State Entomological
Departmnt several times of late. The
season has been especially favorable
for the cotton louse, and many com¬
plaints have been received concerning
it. Recently, nearly every mail lias
brought in descriptions or specimens
of a new insect which the planters arc
finding in numbers on their cotton,
and which they fear is going to work
them further mischief. Most of these
inquiries have been from the middle
tier of counties; Washington, Jeffer¬
son. Twiggs. Houston, Schhley, Monroe
and Marion, but other sendings were
from further south. It is with a great
W\. deal of pleasure that
we are enabled to us
i i sure dents our that correspou. for once
/“/ there is no harm to
be apprehended from
the abundance of the insect
in question, but most decidedly the
contrary. It proves to be one of the
true lady-bugs, known as the Conver¬
gent Lady-Bug on acount of the two
converging white lines on the black
area just back of the head, and like
all others of its family which I have
yet found inhabiting Georgia, is bene¬
ficial in its nature. All of them feed
largely, if not exclusively, upon the
different kinds of scale insects ani
plant lice, and this one which lias sev¬
eral times before been noticed preying
upon the plant lice infesting fruit trees
has attacked the cotton louse this sea¬
son in a very business-like manner.
Figure 1 represents the adult winged
insect enlarged about twice. Figure
2 represents one of the young, also
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 19. 1902.
somewhat enlarged, as they may be
found crawling about over the leaves.
Beth the young and '
the adult are very
voractious, and devour
immense quantities
of lice. Figure 3, is of the inter¬
mediate resting stage known as tha
pupa, enlarged. This is bright orange
in color, with black spots, and may
he found attached to the leaves and
stems of cotton, or other louse in¬
fested plants. The specimen from
which the drawing was made was at¬
tached to a leaflet of locust growing
beneath a large plum tree which was
covered with lice. It is specimens ot
this form which are more commonly
sent us for determination, oftentimes
15 or 20 being attached to the tip of a
cotton stalk, and nearly always on
arrival some of them will have hatched
into active individuals like figure l
The eggs, which are not represented
in the figures, are pale orange in color,
and are laid in little clusters in situ¬
ations where the young, which are
very strong anad active from tbs
first, will have no difficulty in finding
food. Two or three weeks, if the
weather is favorable and food abund¬
ant, will be sufficient for their entire
transformation, and they will pass suc¬
cessively through larger and larger
stages of active crawling larvae, then
through the resting stage, or pupa, and
finally becoming active again, they ac¬
quire wings, and are ready to lay eggs
for another and
more numerous
V generation. I n
,• the autumn,,
when the food supply becomes
scarce and finally exhausted, tha
full grown lady bugs seek shel¬
tered places in the woods, under
the rough bark of trees, amonggst
dried leaves, etc., and in the earliest
spring come forth in numbers greatly
diminished by the hardships of the
winter, but with courage uuabated.
As an illustration of the queer places
which they choose for winter quarters,
I once found a large colony, perhaps
numbering hundreds, snugly ensconced
amongst the bases of the leaves which
thickly covered the twigs of a young
long leaved pine.
In conclusion, regarding the appear,
ance of these insects in cotton fields,
l would repeat that there can be no
question as to their beneficial nature.
Every one of them represents tha
death of hundreds of cotton lice, and
the prevention of future generations of
thousaands. Though these pests may
still be numerous and doing some. In¬
jury, it must not be forgotten that
were It not for the check given by
their enemy they would be present in
numbers that might not injure merely,
but destroy. Protect them, therefore,
and do nothing that will hinder them
in their good work.—State Depart¬
ment of Agriculture, W. F. Fisk",
Assistant Entomologist.
Something About Fowl*.
The introduction of Asiatic-bred
fowls into the United Slates had great
influence for good among our Ameri¬
can fowls. Tlie Shanghai, or original
Cochin, brought increased size and bet¬
ter egg production and their use as
a cross upon the common barnyarl
fowls created a desire for more and
better poultry. Tlie promiscuous mix¬
ing of these new and highly esteemed
fowls laid the foundation for all of
our so-called American breeds.
The Brahma was tho first breed
credited to ns as an American produc¬
tion, anad though classed as an Asi¬
atic fowl, they are the outcome of
great skill in breeding.
The Plymouth Rocks are great fa¬
vorites with chicken fanciers because
of their constitutional vigor, They
prosper where any other l'owd can live
and thrive under ali conditions that
are at ali suitable for fowls.
Our present type of the Plymouth
Rock is the outcome of a careful hand¬
ling of fowls by the mating of Rose
comb American Dominique males
with single comb black Java females.
Those having the best color and sing's
comb.among those produced were se¬
lected and bred together, and thence
was the start of the piesent perfected
fowl.
Breeds allied to the Plymoutn
Rocks are tlie Jersey Blue and ths
Rhode Island Red.
But we have not time to go into full
descriptions of all these varieties.
What has been said is only to show
that there is in poultry raising great
room for the exercise of skill.
Breeders of poultry In Georgia do
not geneialiy need the close houses
that are found in higher latitudes.
During the winter they may he used
to advantage. But at all seasons thor.
ougli ventilation is ari absolute neces¬
sity. The roof of a chicken house
should be close enough to keep out the
rain, and ail its sides, except the south,
should be close enough to exclude
tlie cold winds. Do not let the fowls
be exposed to draughts of air. Be
careful to protect the roosts against
such draughts. The floor of a chicken
house should be frequently sprinkled
with diluted sulphuric acid, which
should be carefully handled to avoid
injury to tlie clothing or persons of
those applying it.
In Georgia fowls are healthier, if left
to roost in the trees during the sum¬
mer.
Birds free to roam find their susten¬
ance from seeds, green vegetable mat¬
ter and insects. If confined within
narrow limits they must be supplied
with what they desire and need, by
the foresight and provident care of
the owner. Otherwise the fowls win
suffer privation and become unprofit¬
able for either eggs or flesh.
To Planters And (Tinners.
The Southeastern Cotton Buy¬
ers’ Association is sending out to
the ginners and planters of-tin*
South a circular which was au¬
thorized-by the association at its
meeting held in Atlanta in May
last. It is a matter of great im¬
portance from the grower tip
through the ginner, the local buy¬
ers, brokers and exporters. The
evil sought to be remedied has en¬
tailed much worry and loss in the
past, and it Is to obviate that this
action was taken. The circular is
as follows:
“To dinners and Cotton IMan
tors ; The Southeastern Cotton
Buyers’Association, composed of
the firms below, adopted the fid
lowing resolution at their annual
meeting held in Atlanta, May 8:
“ ‘Resolved, That it is agreed by
ail buyers belonging to this asso¬
ciation to put a penalty of not less
than 50cents per bale for any bale
that has on above six yards of
bagging and six bands. This pen¬
alty will be increased according to
the amount of excess bagging
there may be above six y, rds and
six bands so allowed.’
Many other firms have express¬
ed a desire to become a member of
the association, and the associa¬
tion has been assured by practi¬
cally all the buyers and -cotton
mills in Georgia and Alabama of
their hearty co-operation in this
movement. Those steps have be¬
come necessary because of the ex¬
cessive amount of baggiifg which
has been put on the cotton at the
gins heretofore, and the fact that
the spinners have been hilling
back to the cotton merchant the
amounts of excess of bagging and
ties above six yards and six bands
to tlie bale.
The Southeastern Cotton Buy¬
ers’ Association instructed the sec¬
retary to send copies of the above
resolution to the ginners through¬
out this territory in order that
this evil may he corrected and
avoid having the penalty put on
his cotton for excess bagging and
ties.”
Facts About London.
A child is born every three min¬
utes, and a death is registered every
five minutes.
The city contains over 700 rail¬
way stations, nearly 800 miles of
railway line, eleven railway bridg¬
es upon the Thames. Daily 1,000,
():)() ] arsons travel on the under
ground railways, and 2,500,000 in
5,000 omnibuses, 7,000 hansoms,
14,000 cabs and 7,000 train ears.
The total population is between
0,000,000 and 7,000,000.
Four thousand postmen deliver
10,000,000 letters weekly, walking
a distance equal lo twice the cir¬
cumference of the globe. 'Sixty
thousand letters are written a day,
consuming 80 gallons of .ink.
Ten thousand mih-s of overhead
telegraph wires almost shut out
the smoky canopy which spreads
above the London streets, and the
number of telegraph messages re¬
ceived in Loudon last year was
over 0,000000. Ninety million
gallons of water are consumed
daily.
A Married Man's Musings.
\\ hen a fellow bi-gins to forget
the date lie was married he won¬
ders if it wasn’t Apri 1 1.
The English language contains
no feminine form for the word
sage. The reason is obvious.
A pretty good example of supe¬
rerogation is teaching a girl baby
to talk.
A fellow .who's intoxicated with
love doesn’t take long to sober up
after marriage.
Probably Adam would never
have married if lie had had to
stand up in church before 1.000,
with, a frock emit on, and go
through a ten-minute ceremony
that seemed 1 ik•**t<*n hours.—Pitts¬
burgh Dispatch.
Atlanta, Ga., July 17.—A spe¬
cial to the Constiiuiion says that
Lyons, a small town, in Tatuall
co'unly, Georg; i, was to-night al¬
most totally destroyed by fire,
Particulars arc not obtainable.
Lyons lias about 400 population.
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I have hui occasion to use your jg
Bkck-Draught Stock and Poultry Mcdi- K IS
cine and am pleased to say that I never
used anything for stock that gave half as g
good satisfaction. ! heartily recom- 9
mend it to all owners of stock.
J. B. BECSHER, St. Louis, Mo |
Sick stock or poultry should not S
I eat cheap stock food any more than ■
| I cured sick persons by food. should When expect to stock be j§
I and poultry sick give your them
1 are med
ieinc. I>u:\'t stuff them with worth-
1 less stock foods. Unload the bowels
| I animal and stir will up (lie he cured, torpid if liver it be and possi- the
i ble to cure it. Black-Draught Stock
| I bowels and Poultry and stirs Medicine up the torpid unloads liver. the
| | taken it cures in time. every Secure malady of 25>c-eut stock if
| a can
I of Medicine Black-Draught Stock and Poultry
and itvillpayfor itself ten
I times over. Horses work better. Bows
3 give more milk. Hogs gain ilesh.
| | problem And hens cf lay making more eggs, much it solves blood, the
I flesh as
and energy as possible out of
B the smallest amount of food con
| sumed. Huycu cun from your dealer.
Kelt eel ions of a Bachelor.
With women making love is an
art; with men a trade.
Money is the root blit, lack of it
is the seed of all evil.
Getting experience is the most
cosily form of dissipation.
There is no human creature who
Inis so vast a knowledge how io
pretend to have no knowledge as a
widow,
?wo wrongs never made .a right
any more than two blondes make
a brunette.
Most of us keep out, of mischief
as long as we can keep out of get¬
ting caught at it.
Tho man who lets his wife buy
his neckties for him is the same
man who lets her decide for him
that he doesn't like to smoke in
the house.
There are three ways to win a
woman's ailVetons; nnu is to keep
telling her bow much you love her
nnd the oilier two is to keep
ii g her how nice she looks.
A woman seems to have ail idea
that she might be thought a heed
lessor negligent wife when she
wakes up her husband in tin* night
tu ink him if lie is sleeping
fort ably.
It takes a whole lot of will pow
er to love a woman enough to
thank her for calling you half an
hour early in the morning so you
will have time to stop in on
way down town and match some
s.lk for her.—New York Press.
Tallahassee, Fla., July
President Nathan B. Young, Farm
Superintendent Crawford I). Men
afee and William II. A. Howard of
the Florida State Normal and In¬
dustrial College will conduct a se¬
ries of educational meetings and
farmers^ institutes for the colored
farmers of Florida during Jury
and August, commencing at Lake
Jackson, Leon county, on Monday,
July 21, and ending Aug. 25, :.t
Hinson, Gadsden county.
The purpose of these meetings'i«
to talk on the situation with the
colored farnn rs, and to take steps
looking toward Lettering tln ireoii
dition, not to make them restive,
but to help to find out what they
can dofro improve theuis.eKes and
build up their state.
Venice, Italy, July 14.—Tin
Campanile (detached bell tower)
of St. Mark’s Church, 98 meteii
high, collapsed at 10:40 o'clock
this morning and fell with a greai
crash into the piazza. It is now
heap of ruins, piled to n liiglit ■>'
100 feet.
In falling it carried away th
Sansovino loggetta and the library
of the royal palace. There wen
no fatalities, but a few persons
w“re injured. The disaster caused
an immense sensation. The town
and communal councils have been
summoned to meet this evening.
! Kitchener's Campaign in South
Africa.
Took the field Jan. 10, 1900, as
Roberts’ chief of stall 1
; .
Fought at I’aardeburg, where
Cronjo surrendered with 4,000 men,
Feb. 27, 1900.
Was at occupation of Bloemfon¬
tein, March 10, 1900.
Bundy escaped capture by De
Wet June 14, 1900.
Assumed supreme command of
army of 25,000 Nov. 00, 1900.
•Built iron blockhouses every
0,000 yards along railways and in
ehuins*throiigh country, connect
by barbed-wire fences charged
with electricity.
Started peace negotiations Feb.
22,-1901, through Genera! Botha’s
wife.
Gave Botha leave May Hi, j
to.semi envoys to tell Kruger the
situation.
Established concentration camps.
Issued Aug. G, 1901, banishment
proclamation ordered by Cham-1
berluiti. j
Pursued steady policy of “wear-j
ing down Boer resistance by now |
scattered bodies.” !
Signed peace treaty with j Wr j j
leaders May fit, 1902.
Made a viscount by the king j
:
June 4, 1902.
Parliament voted him $250,000! |
June 5 at thu king’s request. ,
Turned oyer control of ., n -. lirs ;
•June 17, 11,>02, to civil authorities.
Sailed from Cape Town June 28,! i
1902, for England.
London, July 14.—The specially
coustructed ambulance in which
King Edward is to be removed from
Buckingham Palace to the NlHw.iy
station, was taken to the
this afternoon. Six blue jackets
who have been selected to remove
the King,went through a rehearsal
by removing the couch on which
the King lias at times bee
to the ambulance, under tin di
ivcti.au of the nurses.
Ilis majesty, when lie is taken
I rum the palace to-morrow, will
Uo accompanied by Queen Alcxnu
lira, Prince and Princess Charles
n I Denmark, Sir Francis Knollvs,
private secretary, and
the attending physician.
I'ortde I‘ranee, Island ot
tiniqne, July 18—Last night and
t() . (liiy Mont i’el,ee was in
the activity being as great as that
of Saturday and Wednesday Iasi,
Morue Rouge, Ajoupa Baillon and
Maconin were covered wiili
and cinders and were rendered
inhabitable for several hours. The
volcano emitted a dense <■< dumn
Oame. i here were no fatalities
reported, lull the inhabitants ol
the northern part of tne island
"ere panic stricken.
Pekin, July 10.—Several deal lis
cholera have occurred in the
Forbidden City. The
Empress is alarmed and has kept
the court physician luisv
ing remedies. The disease is in
creasing, especially among the
Chinese soldiers here and at Pao
Ting Fu Reports from
parts of tlie empire show that
epidemic is steadily spreadiuu
land from the coast.
Washington, July 1-i.—General
Chaffee lias been relieved of com¬
mand in the Philippines and or¬
dered L.) the command of the J)e
partment of the East by an order
issued by Secretary Root.
Manila,.July 10.—Cholera is still
spreading in the provinces. Tim
provincial totals are 14,567 cases
and 10,987 deaths. Manila aver¬
ages forty cases daily.
Chicago, July 10.—After ten
days’ of strife, the Chicago Freight
Handlers’ strike terminated this
(biy in an unqualified victory for
the railroads.
Manila, July 10.—Cholera ; s
spreading in the provinces. The
provincial totals are 14,507 eases
and 10,937 deaths. Manila aver¬
ages forty cases daily.
Manila, July 14.—Cholera is
spreading somewhat in the is¬
lands. The ratio for Manila is
maintained. The ruins now fall¬
ing have not checked the disease
materially.
Terms, $1.00 Per Annum
NO 22.
BUY THE
N
SEWING MACHINE
Do not be deceived by those who ad¬
vertise a $60.00 Sewing Machine for
$20.00. This kind of a machine can
be bought from us or any of our
dealers from $15.00 to $18.00.
WE MAKE A VARIETY.
THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST.
The Feed determines the strength or
weakness of tiewing Machines. The
Double l-’ccil combined with other
strong best points Bowing makes the Slew Home
the Machine to buy.
WlltGfOl CiRClIlARS showing ferent Sewing styles Machines the dif¬ of
we manufacture and prices before purchasing
THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO.
ORANGE, MASS.
2S UnionSq. N. Y., Chicago,111., Atlanta, G.-i.,
8k Louis,Mo., Dallas,Tex., San Francisco, Cal
FOR SALE BY
T. L. TRAMMELL.
No Doubt A Bout Tiiat.
I)r. T. Hollingsworth Andrews,
fornu ' r .... ....... ‘''Hinft
with ti'liingoi a newlv wedded
‘ >!UI Doney JIlo on trip took
thf ' m i " 5, '" s; Atlantic. Tim
hrul " llil<l k "' n ""nothing "l n
yachtswoman audwas nut niVecl.-d
by the swell, i.ut her mate ’A u« a
had sailor and took to the rail late
on tIn-first day out She did what
sll!! Oouhl l " co,nfor t him, llllt ill!
was dtfiii-iilt. Sin: thought a lunch
"‘ft'•omantic might gel him out
o! Ins mood, sn she tried this:
“ The moon is ii p—isn’t it, dnr
ling?”
“Yes,” lie stud, languidly—“that
' s > H ! swallowed it.”—Phihidel
a ft" 1 (LS.
Amoricus, Ga., Jnlv / 14.—A peti
si ,,. ie(1 l)y 7 ,- 0 M imes wn8 pied
in Ordinary Allen’s olliee this
l)lorililIj r requesting that an elec
tioll Cilll „ tl witlllIl the .next 40
11V8 (U . dl! „ wh( . tlu . r or not a
m!lj(>rity „f t '„. voters of Sumter
on|llv tho 8R , 0 of sl)iritmi8
|j (]t „.rs again.
The p,-ii'’.nn is signed by many
of the most prominent citizens of
county who are exported to
'„ ;in active interest in the i >lec
Uu n8 800n a8 one is on!l . nH |.
New York, July 14.—THe Peary
relief ship Windward will begin
«*r voyage to the Arctic -regions
this afternoon,
The work of taking on stons
| ins proceeded rapidly to-day, and
it is believed that nothing will
n „w interfere with her sehedulrd
departure,
The Wimlwar-l will stop first at
Portland, Me., and then at Svd
ney, where Mrs. Poarv and her
daughter will tie taken aboard.
St. Paul, July 15.—Tremendous
damage and ilis thought great
loss of life, were caused by a bo
undo which to-night- swept in a
southwesterly direction from the
boundary across the northeastern
portion of North Dakota. Three
towns, according to reports, were
totally wiped out. Railroad and
telegraph lines are wrecked and
there is no communication with
the sections of tlie state where the
most serious devastation is thought
t. > have been worked,
Norfolk, Va., July 15.—Running
at the fate of forty miles no hour,
tin- Seaboard Air Line morning
expre-s, north bound, collided with
a lumbi-r-hidrii tint car earl v this
four miles north of Ral
‘‘‘S 1 ’- Engineer J. 11. Watson was
killed, and his engine was badly
wrecked. Tlie fireman saved him¬
self by jumping. No passengers
\vere injured.
Peking, July 18.—The foreign
ministers to China have agreed
upon the conditions for-tho resto¬
ration of the .government <>t Tien
Tsiu to China and these conditions
only await the signature of the
Italian minister, the Marquis Sal¬
vage Raggi, who is absent, for pre¬
sentation to the Chinese govern¬
ment.
Birmingham, Ala., July 16.—
Former Governor Joseph Forney
Johnston to-day announced his
candidacy for governorMii opposi¬
tion to tin 1 present incumbent,
lion. William D Jelks.
Hon. Charles Waller will be his
running mate, having announced
for lieutenant governor.