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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 — - "<'• "— 7' YtfWSjStU^UKKUBSS/*-■:* .1 •':?'• ' ~ " " * *" ' -Xs ' *■■ ■ '* ’ . ... .•' 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 * . ' • *•'• ••'.; A’ ' ' ' '~T •*° ”' *'. ~' ** ■ '^.v.'7v*t' ■ . .1 .’i Vv ' 1 ' jy.-' .!y Plate 2. The Mediterranean Fruit Fly. A " l " fcst ' d s taJJ^he k °UiTW,* ,, or immature holes made by to™***-* rmd injury . I 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. r ’icT 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. >: $ 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.” $ !♦: >: >: >: The Georgia Power Company is behind every commodity it sells. —P. S. ARKWRIGHT. A Citizen Wherever We Serve