The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-10
BOIL WEEv|L IN
 BALDWIN COUNTY
Special Agent Rhodes Reports
 Pest in Cotton
THE FARMERS MUST ACT
Preparotion Has Been Made to a Great Extent for the Coming of the Boil WeeviI in the Diversifica-
 ton of Crops

| Bay Minette, October 0.-(Special )-The following is statement made by l.. T. Rhodes. special agent of the United gard to the boil weevil and it's march eastward from Texas
 Bay Minette, Ala, october g, 1910.
 T noticed in Fridays paper where l had made the statement that there were no boil weevils in Baldwin county. Up to one week ago last Friday I could say that none had been found in the county, but since that time they have been found in several fields. though few in numbers.
 The squares punctured and the differ ent stages of development of the larvae indicate that they had been there but a few days.
 "The weevil Is here, but there is no cause for alarm We anticipated his ar rival. and the wise farmer has been mak- ing preparations for him and is not sur prised.
 There is no use for any one to stop growing cotton because of the weevil, but he must grow the cotton and not depend too much on the cotton's making without any effort on the part of the farmer.
 Every farmer should blow under and burn up all the cotton stalks on bis farm and get his neighbor to do the same be- fore frost. Flow under or burn all the rubbish in the fields and around them some time during the winter, to destroy | 4Ix tot,t Two the winter to infest the fields the next season Prepare the ground better and give the cotton a good start next spring.
 If yNi will get fin touch with the farmers co-opera tion demonstration work and follow their methods, you will be able to fight them more successfully.
 "L. T. RHODES.
 Special Agent"
 The Farmers union of Roscoe held their regular meeting last evening at o'clock. The matter of securing seed potatoes and sufficient fertilizer for next season was the chief topic of the meeting.
 The new schoolhouse at Orange Beach is being rushed to completion, and will be ready for use within ten days. The building is not large, but will be modern in every detail
 The members of the Foley School Im- provement association held meeting last week, at which time definite steps were taken to aid in securing funds for the school. committee was appointed to confer with John B. Foley to have him donate another lot for playground at the schoolhouse.
 MaDpip1 of Foley finished building his new cotton gin, and the farmers of that locality will have much better facilities for ginning their cotton in the future
 The members of the Baldwin county branch of the Farmers Mutual Insurance association will hold a meeting at Foley Monday morning for the purpose of elect ing officers for the coming year and for the transaction of other business matters. The Summerdale Record is the name of a new paper which is to be published at Summerdale in a very short time. Miss U. A Welsh is the editor.
 An eagle in this section of the country is something out of the ordinary, but Lee Willis. who resides in the southern end of the county killed a large one last week with a fatwood knot, which meas ured six feet and four inches from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. The eagle had a sheep in it's claws and was tussling about on the ground with it when he slipped up close enough to hurl the knot accurately and strike the bird killing 1t instantly.
 In the construction of the Bacon Under wood veneer factory at Stockton an arte- sian well is reported to have been struck with large flow of water, which is said to be strong of sulphur. The well is about 800 feet in depth.
 Under the direction of the democratic state campaign committee a number of appointments have been made in the county for prominent speakers. On Octo- ber 24, at 1 o'clock, at the courthouse, Hon. Hugh Dent, congressman from this district, and Hon. Walter D. Seed, nomi- nee for lieutenant governor, will address the citizens of Bay Minette. The date is the first day of circuit court and large number of people will be reached. They will speak again in the evening at Stock ton. R. T. Erwin, A. P Bush of Mobile and S. c. Jenkins are scheduled to speak at Bon Secour on October 20.