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WEi )N KSPAY, MAY 15, 1929
At Henson Furniture Cos. is GOOD
Mediterranean Fruit Fly
Atlanta, <ia„ May-S). 1!2!.
jl, Towns, Editor,
j{,,, Inle Record,
('ol' cl'S, Ou.
],, ,| Mr. Towns:
r iewith the article on the Medi
to!--o ncan Fruit Fly discussed with
v ,>.„ yesterday. Cuts are coining by
jpdlmnd Mail today. As soon as you
c through with tlte cuts, please
1U ;i tliein hack to me as they are <le
si t for other uses.
,lh personal regards,
Yours very truly,
E. S. CENTER, Jr.
General Agricultural Agent.
The appearance of tlie Mediterrnn
ei it Fruit Fly in Florida has created
n situation that is more than serious.
It is appaling. This fly is one of the
most destructive insect pests known.
It attacks and destroys seventy-two
varieties of fruits and vegetables in
cluding tomatoes, peaches, pears,
plums, figs, apricots, egg plants, tap
pers, strawberries, beans, black ber
rh s. grapes, cherries, cantalopes, in
fiat all fruits except pineapples, and
even citton.
The fly punctures the fruit or vege
table, lays its eggs in the inside, which
in a few days hatch out as worms or
maggots, that destroy the fruit or
vegetable.
It multiplies very rapidly, one fe
male fly laying as many as six hun
dred eggs, with anew generation
about every three weeks.
Should it secure a foot-hold in
Georgia the damage would run into
many many millions annually.
As soon as its presence in Florida
had become known the Georgia State
Board of Entomology acted promptly
and put on a most rigid quarantine
against all suspected fruits and vege
tables from that state. This is being
maintained to the full extent of our
limited resources.
The Board of Entomology lias no
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Male 1. The Mediterranean Fruit Fly. Adult flies on nranee. which also shows drain
age or air holes in rind made by lar\ue inside
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Plate 2. The Mediterranean Fruit Fly. A " l " fcst ' d s taJJ^he k °UiTW,* ,, or immature
holes made by to™***-* rmd injury .
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funds for such an emergency and we
aie very much handicapped in our ef
forts.
Patrolling two hundred and forty
miles of Florida border line twent.v
t'ouv hours a day and watching the
Alabama and South Carolina borders
at the same time is a very expensive
proposition.
To meet the emergen y we have
been compelled to encoach on our
maintenance funds and these are be
ing exhausted rapidly and they will
have to he replaced by (lie generosity
of the people and the coming legis
lature or else all work will have to
stop and then we would lie at the
mercy of the most destructive insect
pest known. The boll weevil, the our
culio, tile codling moth are specialists.
The Mediterranean fly does a general
and extensive practice.
Scientists have long predicted that
the final battle of Armageddon, will
he fought not between man and man,
but between man and insects with the
odds favoring the insects. What has
gone before is but a skirmish with
what is now confronting us. If we are
to win we must have now the coopera
tion and support of all merchants,
sheriffs, police officers and the pub
lic generally, all of whom are request
ed to keep a careful watch for all
suspected and vegetable!; and
destroy them at once. All fruit not in
s, aled packages and not inspected by
the Federal Government should he
destroyed. We can take no chances.
From now on careful inspection
should be made of all home grown or
local fruit. Thousands upon thousands
of bushels of cull oranges and grape
fruit were brought into Georgia from
the infected area before the fly was
discovered. This created a situation
that needs the most careful attention.
The following description taken
from publications of the United
States Department of Agriculture will
help to identify this insect:
The Adults: The Mediterranean
fruit fly is an insect that in the adult
stage resembles in size and .general
shape the ordinary house fly. hut dif
fers greatly in the color pattern of
THE ROCKDALE RECORD. CONYERS. GEORGIA
Plate 3. The Mediterranean Fruit Fly. Excessive drop of oranges caused by the fruit fly.
tile body and wings and in its.habits.
Tlie glistening black spots upon the
insects' hack, the two white hands on
the yellowish abdomen, and the yellow
and black markings of the wings at
once distinguish this fruit fly from
all other insects. The colors, brown,
yellow, black, and white, predominate
and form a pattern that can be recog
nized easily.
The Larvae: The eggs hatch into a
whitish larvae, or maggots, that bur
row or tunnel in all directions through
the pulp, feeding as they go and caus
ing decays to start. When first hatch
ed, they are very difficult to detect,
but when full grown they are very
white, and although only four-six
teenths to five-sixteenths of an inch
long, are quite easily seen. Full-grown
maggots have the peculiar habit, if
taken out of the fruit and placed up
on a smooth surface, of curling up and
jumping from 1 to 0 inches.
Scouting work must be done to de
termine if there are local points of
infestation. Again we must take no
chances.
M. S. YEOMANS,
State Entomologist.
Courtesy Agricultural Department,
Georgia Railroad.”
Goodrich Itstnhli hl* •
An Atlanta Plan!
AKRON, 0., May 15. —With the
completion of the new Goodrich tire
plant at Atlanta, Ga„ building opera
tions begin early this summer to be
completed in time for tire manufac
turing the first of next year, The B.
F. Goodrich Rnbber company will
have eigld manufacturing units in its
world-wide organization. The parent
plant, of 120 acres of floor space is at
Akron. Anew tire warehouse just
completed added 310,000 feet of floor
space to the parent plant. Other
plants are located at Ooloinlies, France
Leyland, England; Yokohama, Japan:
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and Los
Angeles, California. The first of this
year a tire cord mill at Tliomaston,
Ga., was acquired, its capacity to he
more than doubled.
Goodrich, expansion operations,
planned and under construct ion aggro
gate a total of more than $10,000,000,
of which about $7,500,000 is being ex
pended in building the Atlanta plant
and increasing tire cord facilities at
One Subject that Modern
Husbands and Wives
Always Agree About
XyTODERN couples may and usually do moisture! Temperature control device on
i- 1 argue about wlten one should lead top, too, where it is easy to reach,
trumps, who is to have the car today, These and other details readily convince
why it is or isn’t silly to admire Greta both husband and wife that they need a
Garbo... but when it comes to such an General Electric Refrigerator. If they are
important subject as refrigeration, truly careful to take advantage of our special
modern couples are agreed that only the sale offer , friend husband doesn’t ever
best is good enough. dare to argue, on the payment question
m. in„ i T ANARUS,, . • ithe $lO down and the 30 months for the
That means a General El ctric R ? g - balance makes this offer too liberal to re
tor. Its best is good enough. So quiet you . .
barely hear it! Never needs oiling! Built ‘ ‘ *
to last for years and years without a cent You’ll find it that way when you come in
for servicing! Mechanism on top of cabinet to investigate. Better come right off to
and hermetically sealed against dust and day —or tomorrow at the latest.
GENERAL @ ELECTRIC
Refrigerator
The Model G-40 may be
bought for $lO down,
balance $8.50 a month.
The Model RL-95 may
be bought for $lO down,
balance sl7 a month.
Georgia
Power Company
the Martha Mills at Tliomaston. How
ever the Tliomaston cotton mills will
not supply all the cotton products re
quired in manufacturing may of 1 lie
32,000 products* manufactured by this
huge industry. Other mills in various
parts of this country produce millions
of yards of fabric and cord for thou
sands of products of combined rubber
and cotton.
THE ENEMIES
The enemies of industry, typified liy
price-cutting, suspicion, and unfriend
ly competition, do not attack an or
ganization. They seek out individuals
and array them against eaeli other.
Civilization is horn of organization.
It is tlie foundation upon which all
progress rests.
The industry that is not organized
lacks the educational machinery re
quired to shape a progressive course.
Acting alone men proceed in rival
ry ; organized they move forward in
the union of well ordered association.
They blaze the way to greater til
unqihs and render profits more secure.
You believe in organization.
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DOWN
months'
Allgood Is Good
Li jj j wT
Larry Allgood, right-handed hurler,
captain of North Carolina State col
lege baseball varsity who is already
off with a conspicuous start for Dixie
collegiate honors. He is trying to
beat ids record of last year when he
lost only two out of ten games.
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$ Baseball Is Waning ;t;
p. as Golf Is Growing
>i Leo Deigel, champion profes
>*• slonal golfer of America, Ca £<
nadian open champion and hold- :♦!
jjj cr of the Massachusetts, Mid- J
>i die Atlantic and San Diego $
championships, thinks the fu '■£
•♦j ture of golf will menn the de
>; cline of other sports.
“Golf Is expanding tremen
;♦! dously. It Is giving nil otliei
sports a hard race,” said Leo. ij
W. “Baseball In particular is being :♦!
liit hard and despite its eight >$
i*i decades of popularity soon will ;♦!
suffer a loss In gate receipts.” $
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The Georgia Power
Company is behind
every commodity it
sells.
—P. S. ARKWRIGHT.
A Citizen
Wherever We Serve