The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-06-15
TIE BOIL WEEEIL CAMPAIGN.
Field Notes from United States Demon
straliOn Work.
IlY EDGAR GREEN SPECIAL AGENT.

If the recent heavy rains make
1t necessary. throw out your cotton
middles at once with middle split
tiers Or turning ploughs 50 as to
smother out the grass. However.
a Planet Junior cultivator will
usually do this we'll. then side har-
row and afterward your ground is
apt to be in shape for spreading
out with the spring tooth cultiyator.
One trip to the row once week
will then be sufficient. Destroy
weevils and punctured squares.
Let : get this first crop of weevilsI
down and out.
The weeyil lays an egg in the
punctured square and in about
three days a worm is hatched OUT
this worm begins to eat. causing
the square to sicken and become
loose Oh the stalk. II the stalk is
agitated at this stage the square at
once falls off and II it should Be
missed in picking up, ii ninety
mine cases out of q hundred the
square and embryo weevil will
both be destroyed by the hot earth.
However, if the square is allowed
to remain on the stalk too long it,
will often re-attach and begin to
grow and there remain until the
weevil is Matched sout. So give
rapid. shallow cultivation.
It pays to profit BY government
instructions. Mr.. S. M Hutson,
of the Mt. Zion neighborhood
burnt all bis old stalks, also the
rubbish around stumps and in the
fence corners. No weevils have
appeared in his field as yet, but in
tha field Of his son-in-law. Lewis
Barlow who lives III half mile,
and who did not take the above
precaution, weevils are now ap-l
pearing in numbers. Hon. FL. Il.
Montgomery of the Arlington
neighborhood, has the cotton and
boil weevil situation well in hand.
While he is fighting boil weevils in
his cotton he is at the same time.
raising Hackney colts, Jersey red
hogs, fine Fishel strain Of white
Plymouth Rock chickens and plenty
to feed them on. His last year
crop Of sofa beans was quite a sue
cess.
Mr.. N. X. Brown, of beat -four,
is culitvating his entire crop By
government methods. and is rails
ing Berkshire hogs. Rhode Island
Red chickens and Devon cattle.
Mr.. Joe Sasser is finding the
raising Of good stock SO profitable
that he is giving it the greater
part Of his attention. He has
Mcintosh Jerseys, about forty An
CORA goats, Berkshire hogs and ped
igreed horses. The water for his
farm and residence is supplied by
up-to-date fixtures. But he says
that the other night the hoops on
his water tank burst and the escap.
ing water made SO much noise that
he thought the tail of HaIleyss
comet had struck.
Mr.. Ebert Laird. of the south-
western part Of the county. picked
up squares last year and employed
other means Of weevil control and
found that his yield was very much
better than that Of his neighbors
who did nothing to check the pest.
His cotton IS in line shape at this
time and he dOes not doubt that he.
viii make a crop. After picking
up weeyIis three days he found
Them very much reduced ID num-
Der.
Mr. w e dick Case. formerly
lot Macedonia bat now Of the Gum
Grove neighborhood. has his cotton
ia good shape and is destroying the
weevils as rapidly as they appear
The same is true Of Mr.. Jasper
N. Lotion and Mr.. Albert Evans Of
the same neiqhhorhood
Mr. NJ IA Higdops Of Grange
Hall. not only has bis cotton il.
good shape but is arranging to put
lin forty acres Of sofa beans after
oats He IS also raising some Of
the best stock IN the county His
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