The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-10

laborers and tenants With a fishing pole
over their shoulders vending their ways
towards river or bayou for days out
ing, their children about tnelr homes and
cabins playing in dirt and dust with
barely enough clothes on their backs to
protect them from the weather, while at
the same time their small patches OF cot
ton were probably being devastated With
the boil weevil Let there be new re-
gime inaugurated and Instead OF tshing
poles and idle children. arm one aud all
wtth the cotton sack aud fish for fallen
squares full OF plump and healthy boil
weevil worms. DO this and there will be
less weeping and waiting neXt November
and more Turkey for Thanksgiving. The
cost or this method is In reality moth
ing. The tenant has his whole time to
devote to the cotton at any rae and it's
only a question of how II should be d.
recled and applied That being the case
the planters have the remedy in their
own hands, and they need only to posi-
lively insist on the collection OF the in
tested squares first and let cultivation
follow afterwards.
Just here | Wish TO state that the
squares must actually be collected and
burned and not powed under during cui-
ovation, as some have recommended. l
have proven during the course OF the past
two weeks of experimental tests that Wee
, NllS uuiAtu BIN, CiEuN anu lth lututh, re-
spectively, have worked out to the top
and escaped, The same Will in all prob
ability apply to the squares. because |
have found that ii seems immaterial how
small may be the squares In which the
egg is laid the larva Will had ernugh
food in Il to enable 1t to mature and de-
velop into an adult wreYil The squares
will not rot sufficiently undor Ordinary
circumstances to destroy the larvas and
once they become weevils, It's culy a
question OF time until they will WORK out
and do business Al the Old stand The
recommendations mado are plain, unequiv-
ocal and will be absolute In the rosul S.
and at cost at once reasonable and prac-
tlcable, Loss OF this years crop must
henceforth be q matter % the pla1ter's cWn
management rather thaA a lacl, Of avail.
able information. Meantime the most ex-
haustive tests and experiment.; with rem
edies are being made With considerable
prospect OF success bu; knowing an abso-
Lutte method which Is entirely practical I
prefer TO suggest m o,hcr hope at this
time. Let every planter test the recon-
mepdations both as TO cost. practicahluy
and efficiency, and report 10 me ME ex-
perience and judgment in the mater as
a basis for further stud 's and rrcummfn
datlons. Fred w. Mllly.
Entomologist,
Gonzales, Texas June e.-The Business
Mems club of Gonzalez is trying to induce
the farmers to gather up the cotton squares
that have been stuns by the boil weevil
and have published an offer of 10 cents
per pound for all puncmred squares
brought in from farms in the county Tho
sum OF $500 or more IL necessary. will
be expended in this matter. number
OF farmers have been gathering the squares
as they fall and 1t is thought tina, most OF
the farmers who have the weevil in their
cotton viii gather them up From observe.
| tons ana actual experience your CORE
spondent thinks that the squares ana
forms that are stung fall off tho stalk in
about two days II then takes eight or
nine days more at least for the egE to
hatch out, being first worm and then n
fully developed boil weevil In short. in
from ten to thirteen days after the boll
weevl stings the form or small boil the
weeVil comes out ready to sting and de-
post eggs. At present the weevIls arc
confined to few farms I'm different parts
/ OF the county and principally to cotton
| close to heavy timber. They do not move
about much and they can be kept out to
/ a great extent Of a farm by destroying the
/ forms though they may be IN Aa adioin-
me farm where they are not DESTROYED