, 1908-01-11

mtmters uf The Colonial Cvurcil and should
have q great deal of experience concerning
it, | send you the following on the cOttoN
plant viz
I saw with one of the members of the
Colonial Council a Draft 10 be put be-
fore the Council on Monday the 9th inst.
concerning the leaf of the cotton plant and
a disease called the Blister Mite, which the
writer considers a very dangerous enemy to
tie cotton plant.
The writer of the article cannot be a cot
ton planter or certainly he could not write
such n thing to go before the public consider
he must be u man OF in ioor life, who knows
nothing of the cotton pant or its diseases
and one who only goes by the bubble Of the
talk around here.
We'll Mr., Svitzer the B,istar-M fe is a
very simple disease, as it is quite easily Goa.
troiled with a little care.
1t can be destroyed IN . or 3 applications
of the article which the disease REQUIRES.
that is, the e uaI parts of lime and sulphur.
1T Is not from what | hear other people say
that | am speaking l am speaking from the
results thut have happened On , or 3 different
places.
| had the disease here and I let some of
the plants 50 as far as | thought it could go,
| then tried the lime and sulphur, and in 3
applications it destroyed th9 disease com
pletely.
1t IS strange that Mr. Thornton did not
tell his anything about the Blistar- Mite AMI
It's cure in his lecture.
Nouls truly
THO5. LATIMER.
This would at once prove the necessity of
having a public meeting to hear opinions.
LIST Member for Christiapsted (S1itt)
said he had listened with interest and alton
ton to the remarks that had fallen TODAY,
but more ospe tally to the clear ana lucid
expressions from His Elce}loncv the GOV.
ernor. 1t is beyond II doubt that the evil
spoken of, really threatens us, and The re-
suits codld beas foresha1owed, it behoovos US
all to do something to arrest the eyi! be-
fore it comes down up)u us bul in doing
that something, We have to be careful, not
only to avoid taking half way or iilusory
measures, Ut also to avoid measures that
would lead to losses to in lividll's, that can-
not be compensated. Let us take the in
stance of a poor old nan having a small
piece of cotton, which he has rlsed until
lie has n promising crop he get: sick, aud
can't attend to 1t some good morning he
bNbACo III il'l'tN, VI It - bpiI, bItU liz ClU~
ton is infected by the mite, it must be- uD.s
rooted and burnt he loses his Tina and
labour and money spent and his prospects
ON which depended his own and fa nily's
existence suppose thepiote be infected only
one half or one quarter with the mite,here and
there; bat that the man if allowed to reall
might get something out Of It, and the
danger would not be greater, as the mite
will have been there already, and will have
been carried elsewhere from the same
place where the infection came to the mans
lot. Suppose u mani having cotton, went
to bed leaving bis piece all III full blossom,
but next morning he awakes to tind his
ready cotton infected with The blister mite ?
Then again, III what stage is infection con-
veyed is it so that this mite is at once infec-
tious, CT must it be some time before it ac-
quires the quality of wandering to other
localities ? He would not now follow up
the different questions arising the Com
mitteo will 10 doubt deal fully with the
matter.
(To be continued)