The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-17
HOLD CONFERENCE
 ON BOIL WEEVIL Educate Planters How to Fight
 the Enemy INSECT IS SPREADING Word Reaches Mobile That Ira Nnbors Is Drowned In Ocean When Home sickness Makes Him Jump
 Overheard
INSECT IS SPREADING

Mobile September 16-(special.)-Dr.
 " E. Hinds entomologist to the experi-
 nent station of the Alabama Polytechnic
 institute at Auburn, Ala arrived in Mo-
 bile this morning and immediately went
 into conference with A. H. Moorman of the bureau of plant industry United
 States department of agriculture; W. D. | Pierce of the bureau of entomology. sta l toned at Dallas, Tex; G. A. Maloney, United States agricultural inspector. sta | tioned at Citronelle; Secretary Carter of the Mobile Progressive association, and | Secretary Cox of the Mobile Commercial club
 The conference was held to discuss the | invasion of Mobile country by the boil
 weevi. Several days ago Dr. Hinds and | an assistant determined positively that | the boil weevil had invaded the western portion of the county At that time he stated he did not believe there was any serious danger of crops for the year or l in future years being damaged by the insect if the farmers co-operated with the department in preventing further spread | of the weeyil. He stated yesterday he | still believed no serious damage would 1 result from the invasion and explained | the presence of>the experts in Mobile by saying: We want to encourage the commercial bodies of Mobile county to begin progressive campaign of educa- ton that will lead the planters of this district to put in practice this fall those
 methods of controlling the weevil which have been found most effective in older infected territories, and which will be
 outlined by any of the government ex- perts."
 Another meeting will be held and rep resentatives of all the commercial bodies or the county will be invited to be pres ent. It is probable that the experts will remain in Mobile county to assist in out firing the. campaign against the weevil
 The government experts and the mem
 bers or the various commercial organi-
 cations held a second meeting tonight,
 which was more largely attended than
 the meeting held during the day Dr. w. E. Hinds told the Mobiians that it was fact that the boil weevil had spread over two-thirds of Mobile county. He said that before the first killing frost came the weevil would move on eastward Into six or eight more coun-
 ties in Alabama and probably into the western portion of Florida.
 Dr. Hinds laid stress on the fact that no serious damage need result from the invasion if farmers would cooperate to fight the insect. He suggested that a campaign be started to educate the far mers to clean up their cotton stalks be- fore frost time and thus leave no place for the weevil to breed.
 He also urged the necessity of farmers cooperating with the experiment sta. tions to learn scientific ways of growing crops to best offset the boil weevil
 Members of the cotton exchange, who were present, stated they would take the matter in charge and see that the neces- sary money was obtained to conduct an
 advertising campaign among the grow
 CTS of cotton to offset the spread of the inspect Members of the other organiza- tions voted their support.