The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-03
TIE COTTON BOIL WEEVIL.

TGE COCTOM BULL WGEelL.
Travelling Fifteen Miles a Week
This Dire ctiop.
So alarming have recert attacks {
the cotton boil wee7il become In SOM
parts OF Texas, Arkansas and Louis
lama to the cotton crop OF this yaa1
that L @. Howard, head of the bu
resu OF entomology, Department Q
Agriculture, has decidsd to leav
Washington, October 2, for thos
States, determined to remain ther
Until some definite steps are takel
tor the eradication Of the havoc pla}
Ing WesVil.
While MI. Howard has heen awar
for some time that the we, vii was at
tacking the cotton plant In some o
the uthWestern States with fear
fui resnlss, he di7 not until a day O
two ago, have any idea OF the damag
that had been do 8 during the pres
ent year.
he nss been informed during th'
last faw days by Congressman Wal.
lace, OF Lafayette, Columbia county
Ark, that In one weeks trip recsntly
when an actual count WIS kept, the
seeVil Travelled fifteen miles in one
week. That convinced Mr. Wallacs
thas ii the crop In h.s State was t
De sa7sd, steps should ba taken q,
ence in the matter. He then infor
NED Mr.. Howard atleng5h OF the con
aitions existing in bis State as vel
IS in some parts Of Tixzs and L0uis
.anna. Tue result Il shs cof.espon
2ence iB that M. H. ssfd will start
80 the Southwest at the same time In
dicated prepared to remain in the en-
emy's territory until be has either con
Q1sred them OF until he has to give ul
yne 6gha.
When M. Howard arrives In Tex
Is his first stop VIII probably be 81
D. -llas or Austin. There be will ioir
the boil weevii special train thai
will bs made up OF planters who Ge
sire to visit the infected districts
TIE train will be in charge Of M
Inward, though the itinerary vii
% in the hands OF local cotton plant
ers and the railroaad paople in the
sections visited. The party will con
sist OF Mr.. Howard, railroad Officials
cotton planters and possibly severa
men from the bureau Of entomologg,
Department OF Agriculture. The
officials Of the roads in tie infecsec
territory have given every encourage
ment to the efforts tnsI Mr.. Howard
Is making to deter nine upon s2ne
effective means for ths destruction q
the wesvil.
After all the infected districts II
Texss have been visited and talks hai
with farmers interested In the cxtsr.
mination OF the Weevi!, the lraln viii
then be sent into Arkansas or Louisi
ana and the same .oIuine viii prob
ably be followed.
This will be campaign Of educa'
tion and sysermination," Mr., Inward
said recently, because we want tt
educate the farmers Of Texas, Louisi
ana and Arksnsas-the territory inte
which We are going in the science Of
dealing with the pest that is doing
thousands OF dollars damage to the
cotton growers Of the country annual
ly. and also because we propose to e1'
terminate tas weevl In every possible
way"
Congressman Wallace is possibly
more alarmed than even Mr.. Howard
and his assistants over the rspidity
With which the weeVll is travelling
The valculatons recently made BY
him when 1t was found that the wee
vii was travelling at the rate OF 1T
teen miles persWeak-and in his di:ec
s.ou-cAuses MIN 10 believe that un
less something is doae 10 his locality
az an early date it will be oaly short
time until tine great cotton growing
areas Of Texas and other southwestern
States siil be given over entirely q
the raVages Of the Wee7il.
Mr.. Howard does not know hoE
:ong be will be in the south vest
though he will probtbly remain there
untii soms results are secured.