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WHY THE INSECTS
ARE INCREASING
“ADVANCING CIVILIZATION AND
PRESENT FARM SYSTEM
ARE RESPONSIBLE.
Farmers frequently remark that on¬
ly a few years back, before they had
heard of the entomologist, that they
could raise an abundance of niee
peaches and other fruit free from the
worms and bugs. Now it is
to raise anything without putting
a fight against the insects and diseas
es. Some go so far as to say that en
tomologists are responsible for the
ever increasing number of insects.
A study of the situation, however,
reveals that our “advancing eiviliza
tion” and the present methods in our
agricultural system are exactly condu
cive to the multiplication of the in
sects, writes S. Mareovitch in Farm¬
ing Magazine. The aeroplane is ad¬
mitted by all to be very modern; yet
it has already been demonstrated to
be capable of spreading insects from
one county to another. Automobiles
for example are excellent carriers of
pests in quarantine areas. Fast steam¬
ships made it possible for living Eu¬
ropean corn borers to gain entrance
into this country with a shipment of
broom corn. More than 50 per cent of
our insect foes have been imported
WEEK-END TRIPS
CAMILLA
(Proportional Rates Other Points)
To
Tvbee - $10.70
Pablo Beach - $9.50
Atlantic Beach - $9.70
Daytona - - $13.55
Tickets on Sale Fridays and Satur¬
days. Final limit midnight of follow¬
ing Tuesday.
Round Trip Summer Excursion
Tickets on sale daily to resorts in
Canada' and the United States good
until October 31.
We are prepared to serve you
M. B. MOCK, Agent
Phone 118
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CAMILLA, GA., to
New York $60.48-Boston $73.48
Correspondingly attractive fares from
other points in the Southeast to New York,
Boston and interior Eastern and New England
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY Of SAVANNAH
37 Ball Street Savannah, Georgia
from abroad, e. g.—the San Jose
scale, cabbage worm, Hessian fly,
Japanese beetle, European com borer
and so on. Civilization may be meas¬
ured by the advances and improve¬
ments made in transportation facili¬
ties, but the more rapid the transpor¬
tation system the more chances we
create for transporting insects in a
living condition from one place to
another. The late world war, with
our shipments of food to France, has
been responsible for the introduction
of our native potato beetle there.
Numerous other examples could be
given.
Not onlv are we to have nearly
the insects 0 f the rest of the world
im ted into tfcis country, but each
■ state will eventually have all the in
sect pro bl e ms of the rest of the staes.
A recent miration is the Mexican
j be . m beet i e . This pest would have
| con fi ned to the mountains of
j j Colorado and vicinity for a long time
f D come and not Alabama imported
; alfalfa hay j n 1918 from the west.
This alfalfa hay, contained live speci¬
mens of Mexican bean beetle.
Along with our rapid tranportation
system has come the development of
large scale farming and the necessary
destruction of the forests. This ap¬
pears to be an artificial condition and
has upset the balance in nature. The
destruction of the forests means the
loss of the most efficient enemies of
the insects. I refer to the birds. No
forests mean no nesting places. One
has only to witness floods to learn an¬
other lesson of what the forests mean
to us. To be sure, in the early days
it was necessary to clear the woods in
order to make room for corn and oth¬
er staples. Now we have millions
acres of com, wheat and other crops
where before there were prairies or
trees. Once an insect like the Euro¬
pean corn borer gains entrance
this country its chances for
cation are unlimited. The number
insects that may develop under
vast acreage conditions is almost be¬
yond the comprehension of the
age man. Formerly under
conditions the constant shifting
kept the insects guessing as to how to
keep up, and where to make the next
move. Now our large scale
is exactly what the insects have wish¬
ed for, and we have satisfied
every need and requirement. ■
We need only look at the cotton
boll weevil for another very familiar
illustration. This insect was of slight
economic importance under the condi¬
tions prevailing in Central
but when it crossed into Texas and
found our vast cotton fields, full of
squares and bolls to puncture, the
weevil began to rub its eyes and won¬
dered if it was not too good to be
true, and how long could it last. That
question of how long will we continue
to feed weevils depends entirely on
us.
We can restore the balance in na¬
ture, at least partially, by doing away
with large acreages. Small acreages
mean more time left to fight the in¬
sects. It costs as much to poison cot¬
ton land that will make a bale to the
acre as it does to treat land capable
of making only a fourth of a bale. It
is easy to destroy the weevil on five
acres of cotton. The same amount of
poison and effort spread over 20 acres
will have no effect on the weevil.
What holds true of the boll weevil
holds true of „ the , ‘"sects such as the
strawberry crown borer Mexican bean
and a host ot ^ el j s -
I hope I have made it clear, that it
is not the entomologist who has creat¬
ed our vast insect problem, but our
methods of farming under large acre¬
age which is exactly the conditions
favorable to rapid insect multiplica
tion. Rather the reverse is true. The
rapid multiplication of the insects has
created the entomologist, and if we
continue with more acres than we can
take care or poison I see good times
ahead for the enetomologist.
ODD CARGOES IN
SHIPP NG TRADE
COMMERCE REPORT SHOWS
MANY NEW’ SERVICES
SPRINGING UP.
WASHINGTON.—Studies of ocean
borne commerce between the United
States and other countries by the Bu¬
reau of Research of the Shipping
Board, have disclosed various new ser¬
vices and unusual cargoes.
“Among those recently noted,” the
bureau said today, “is the trade in
raw cotton between Gulf ports and
Murmarsk, Russia, starting last year
with a few scattering cargoes and in¬
creasing to ten full cargoes up to the
end of May this year. Another evi¬
dence of developing Russian trade
was the movement of three full car¬
goes of agriculture implements which
left New York in three successive
months this Spring for Odesa and
Novorossick, one of these shipments
including 2,100 tons of American trac¬
tors.
“A Canadian milling company also
shipped recently in a single Russian
order some 164,000 tons of flour in
thirty-four ships, of which twenty
eight left from American ports, twen¬
ty-one sailing from New York, five
from Baltimore, one from Philadelphia
and one from Portland, Maine.
Another shipment of a nature to
attract attention was a single con¬
signment which left San Francisco
during the past Winter for Ham¬
burg, Germany.
“Imports also develop odd cargoes,
as a shipment of 3,000 tons of dried
eggs recently received in New York
from China and af ul cargo of hard
molasses packed in baskets which ar¬
rived in Philadelphia from Java for
use in the manufacture of alcohol.
“The whaling industry is frequently
referred to as a thing of the past,
but seven cargoes of whale oil have
been received in this country during
the current year, with probably more
to follow.”
NOTICE OF TEACHERS’ EXAMI¬
NATION JULY 31 AND AUGUST 1.
At School house in Camilla, begin¬
ning 9 A. M. each morning.
Examination may be taken for
three different kinds of State Certi¬
ficates as follows:
Class B. General Elementary
Certificates
Applicants for the Class B General
Elementary Certificate will be ex¬
amined on the following subjects:
Reading, Literature, Writing, Spell¬
ing, Arithmetic, English Composi¬
tion, Grammar and Literature, United
States History, Civics, Georgraphy,
Methods and Education.
The applicant making from 85 to
100 per cent on elementary examina¬
tion may send his papers through the
county superintendent to the State
Department of Education, accompan¬
ied by application blank, properly fill¬
ed out, and the fee of one dollar. If
the marks are approved he may be
granted a Class B General Elemen¬
tary Certificate. This examination
will be held on Friday, July 31.
Class A General Elementary
Certificate.
In order to receive the State Cer¬
tificate, Claes A, the applicant must
show that he has had the equivalent
of a high school education. For appli¬
cants who desire to try for this certi¬
ficate there will be questions given
on Saturday, August 1, of a general
character on high school subjects, in¬
cluding Arithmetic, Algebra, Geome¬
try, High School English, General
History, General Science, Methods and
Education. Those taking the exami-
nation for General Elementary Class
A State Certificate need not take the
examination given on Friday. Those
making at least 85 per cent on this
examination will send their papers
together with application and one
dollar fee to the State Department.
High School Certificate.
Examination for High School Cer¬
tificates will be given Saturday, Au¬
gust 1, on the following subjects:
English, History, Mathematics, Gen-i
eral Science, Physiology, Geography,
Languages, Education and Methods. 1
The object and purpose of the test
is to show that the applicant has an
education equivalent to graduation
from a junior college. All papers
will be sent to the State Department
with application and one dollar fee.
Renewal of License.
If a teacher has a first grade coun¬
ty high school or general elementary
license which he desires to renew, he
should present evidence of having at¬
tended at least one approved summer
school of at least four weeks during
the life of the license.
In lieu of attendance upon summer
school he may take that part of the
examination on Education and Meth
ods and a renewal will be granted to
those making 85 per cent. This ex¬
amination will be taken largely from
the Manual for Georgia Teachers.
The following books are also sug¬
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To My Farmer Friends:
There are other Smiths operat¬
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but Bill Smith, of Camilla, Ga., and
Wilson, N. C., is the only Bill Smith
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Ga., and I will see that you get all
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The State Department of Education
issues Class B Elementary Certificates
and for this reason the examination
for this certificate will be given for
those who wish to take it, but all ap¬
plicants are advised to take the ex¬
amination for Class A* Elementary
Certificate or High School Certificate,
since the Mitchell County Board of
Education requires a Class A Ele¬
mentary Certificate, or one superior
to it, of all new teachers coming into
the county system.
J. R. SLOAN,
Co. Supt. of Schools.