The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
(By Rev. R. A. Whitfield, Florence. Mss

(By Rev. r. A. Whitfield, Florence, Miss)
Hon. B. L. Moss, government expert
mental agent, was on time here last
Friday, as per previous announcement in
the Florence column of the News. He
was greeted by good sized deeply in
terested crowd of farmers, white and
black, who paid the strictest attention
to the ideas he gave out in we'll and
poiredly delivered address, in which
address he showed himself perfectly fa-
miliar with his theme-the Boil Weevil,
and how to conquer him. Without going
extensively into the speech, we will merely
give the salient features CT it, as follows:
| (1) Plant only acres (cotton) to the mule
because more than this cannot be kept
clear of the weevil. (2) Do not plant
in bottom land because the weed grows too
rank and makes too much shade, which
is favorable to the propagation of the
| weevil. For the same reason, make the
rows wider-about half foot wider than
the stalk grows in height. go Plant
more corn, raise more hay, hogs, cattle,
etc., etc. (4) Burn all the cotton stalks
in the fall before the first heavy frost,
| by which fully ninety per cent of the
weevils are destroyed. 50 Best seed to
plant are Triumph and Cleveland Big
Boil for hillside land. If necessary TO
plant in bottom land, Peterkin or Simp-
kins is probably the best seed. co. The
best fertilizer is mixture of cotton seed
meal and Acid Phosphate The meal
makes the stalk, and the phosphate pro-
duces the fruit"
When it comes to planting only 6 acres
cotton to the mule it must be understood
that each 6-acre piece must be highly
fertilized and forced to bear half as
much again, or twice as much as before
Use the 2 elements suggested by Mr.
Moss, that is, cotton seed meal and a
phosphate. These should be proportional
according to the needs of the particular
soil. Some soils will require more meal
than will Others, and less phosphate.
Some may need less meal but more
phosphate. Each planter should be able
to determine this for himself, as lie
is supposed to be farmer right. When
lack of knowledge is complained of, then
an appeal to the experimental farmer in
ones section should be made. and if he
has learned anything under government
teachings he should be able to commun;-
cate his knowledge to his needy neighbour
We hope our cotton raisers will treasure
up in memory and on book shelves in their
homes, the variety of hints and instructions
given out by men who know what they
are talking or writing about for the use
and benefit of the food supply raiser.
Yes; plant more food stuff every year
Too manv mouths all over the land are
opening for feeds of food for this MAR
industry to fall behind in favor of the
boil weevil. There is nothing that makes
soil turner and scratcher feel so good
and SO independent as will lot of bigger
barns built to hold bigger lot of corn
ard hay; a lot of bigger pastures than
heretofore TO coral a bigger lot of cattle
and porkers-and have these things OF
hand to count, too. Who objects to this
idea? Must the objector be a man, So
called who thinks he can raise cote.
cotton, cotton, regardless of boil weevil
or Mr.. Moss advice? Let him try it for
three years and see for himself; and lie
no one else follow the lead of such an
one in the hunt
Walter Dear returned last Friday from
the County Sunday School Convention
at Shiloh, where he delivered the Gre
Spouse" to the welcome" speech. He
was highly complimented for his per-
Torrance, just as we knew would occur
when we lent him to the convention for
the occasion.
Anent the cattle tick bother. Some
Lauderdale county men wanted to ship
some cattle into Alabama on the 21st.
The Alabama laws are strict against the
pest. So these men, TO get their one hun
dred head to market in the sister state
were compelled to carry them through
dip" and Immediately after, inoculate
them For long time Alabama had
quarantined against Mississippi cattle on
account of the tick and the Texas fever
But the cattle can be admitted into that
state if they were first dipped in the anti
tick solution, and then inoculated.
AT big plantation three miles east of
MERRIAM the requirements in the case
above mentioned, were observed The
vat or pit in which these one hundred
head were dipped, is four feet wide, six
feet deep, and fifteen feet long. The vat
was filled two-thirds full with water and
one-third with Beaumont kercSine OIL
The cattle are driven singly over this vat
where they pass over a trap door, which,
as soon as reached, allows the animal
to fall into the preparation and become
submerged. The bottom of the vat so in
clined upward that the animal walks
out of the pit, and it is inoculated by the
injection, hypodermically into the blood,
of a preparation against Texas fever or
any of the usual stock diseases. After
they have been examined by the govern
ment inspector they are allowed to pass
into any district. The substance of this
is that any cattle man who has cattle
in Rankin county cannot take them out
of this county into tick-eradicated coun-