The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-26
WEST ALABAMA AND THE BoLL
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wEEvIL.
within two wears the boil weevii
will be preying upon the edges of the
cotton fields OF West Alabama Within
three years IL will have come as far
east as Dallas and Perry Counties
Nothing. short OF supernatural In
fiuence can stop the weevil's destrue-
tive march. Man. with all his science.
his skill and his resources is yet tn
find a practical means of DESTROYING
the boil weevii or stopping his costly
advance. The best that the scientists,
who have been studying and lighting
the weevil for ten years can do. IL
TO limit the amount of his destruction
and to raise a partial crop Of cotton
after he APPEAR
When he comes. he comes to stay.
FIa never leaves. No section that once
had him has been able to rid itself Of
him. On some of the cotton fields OF
Moxico he has been at work for SOW
enty years and he Is as destructive
now as he ever was. One year he
may be 50 reduced I'm number that
his damage will be small. The next
year he may be more destructive on
that same community more than he
ever waa
Hts advance guard Ia now at Jack
son. Miss. In the fail of 1911 he will
be crossing tho Mississippi line.
This. in brief. 10 the statement made
at the formers meeting on General
Munforfs plantation In Perry County
by DIR. 8. d. Hunter. the greatest ex-
pert on the boil weevil that the coun-
try is known DR.. Hunter is the ex-
pert who is In complete charge Of the
governments fight against the boil
weevil He has studied the menace
as no other man has studied 1t. He
would no doubt. have been proud to
tell the assembled farmers that the
government had found a way to whip
the fight against the boil weevil But
he could not say that truthfuliy. but
he talked to than earnestly and frank
Nv of the inevitable coming OF the
menace to Alabama. He warned them
to prepare for the coming OF the pest.
the progress Of which could not be
stayed.
Thanks to the enterprise ana intel
ligence OF the planters Of Perry. Dr.
Hunter was enabled to say that the
farming community about Uniontown
was the best prepared section he had
even seen to fight the weevil. This
wat due primarily 10 the fact that It
WAS the test alfalfa section he lad
sen in the South and that alfalfa
already had a permanent footing there,
for about Uniontown there are no less
than thousand acres producing al
falfa. In other respects II was an
excellent hay country. While cattle
growing was not extensive 1t was re-
garded as certain that 1t was bound to
follow where alfalfa could be grown
no easily
Professor w. ]. spillman. the leader
Of the demonstration work which hos
been so fruitful about Uniontown- de-
ciared that the time would come when
alfalfa. which now brings SIS a ton
could be sold In that section for SO
ton as it Is now sold in California.
He advised his hearers not to be
frightened. for VIXEN that dag arrived
seek would he so plentiful in Perry
that they could sell their meat to the
farmers of Iowa.
In Sumter County alfalfa growing
has become an established and profit
able industry. It's sister industry NJ
stock raising has also gone forward in
leaps and bounds In that county. Times
change; new things and new methods
are demanded.
The boil weevil will come. but It will
fina West Alabama in far better state
of PREPARATION than Louisiana and
Mississippi were found.