The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-08-02
INTERESTING AND VALUABLE
INFOlRFsNfsAiItTilII0 n b e.: DEP
#HMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
DO. NOT GIvEH "A 4 FOOD

Destroy Stalks and Rubbish That
May Aid Weevil One of the Most
Effective Methods. Government
Has Spent More Than 81 900, 900
Studying and Fighting Pest. -
WASHINGTON, ID. C.--The de-
partment of agriculture has spent.
more than million dollars studying
andsfghting the boil weevii, and the
cotton states have added to this.
Ahy effective method of combat
tina the boil weevii must be based
on#accurate knowledge of it's life
hiatOry and haBitS 4tFYif1 feed and
breed only on the cotton plant Clean
farrning methods, attack. the weeyil
bY emoving it's food; proFonging[the1
peFiod of starvation, and destroying
the material in which it spends the.
winter. 1t has been found advisable
toaremove stalks and carefully screen
anyaseed houses which may be in or
mean cotton fields. Moss on forest
trses may shelter vast nunlbeEs II Of
weegils during, the winter.
The NEST inapoftant STEP however,
is u Che destruction of the cotton
plarMs ye.Oeteharu.1Q,..aE --asusoona af=
ter that date as possible. It is read
ilWSeen that if it's only food is re-
moved from the fields three to five
weeks before the first killing frost
Int n inf
the humber of weevilS! present dur
ing the following summer and spring
viii Sbe greatly reduced. This meas
ureais especially important along the
line@of advance of the weevil in ter
ritory not yet infested. After max
ing dong flights late in the season
the presence of growing cotto1s gives
the sweevil a good @opp ortunity1, to
feed before ngEinto Writer qlla1-
terB# If the plants have been de-
strDyed early, however, the long !
fight followed by starvation greatly
deereases-thespt probability of-the wee71
yilg5 appearing the following season
in this, new, Bterritory
Thea 10 uisian a. 81 atez,EG Itop nj Pest /
Commission found that when cotton |
plants were destroyed Before OeteBerf
] 5 only 3 per cent of the weevils
survived. 81 The necessity for prompt |
and early destruction of the plants
is indicated by the survival of ID per
cent of the weeVils where plants re-
NAMED until the period betweeni@Qc /
tober1 S and 27; when theR plants /
were destroyed between November |
1 and rs about % per cent of the
weevils survived; and when sthe |
plants were destroyed between NO
yembeF 25 ands December 7s2SFper |
cent of the weeVils lived through the |
winter. Allowing the plants to stand |
until Christmas permitted AZ per
cent of the WeeviIs It'd SURVIVE and at |
tack the next cotton crop StarVai ton
of the weeVil before It'll erlter WIN
ter quarters was more effective in il
causing death agthan cold or wetl
weather during the winter. If the
cotton plants are not removed the
weevil is not deprived of food for
more than aboptHg4 days, # they |
are destroyed October .1e
weeYil must starve sgIiless It can 10
lS0days without food The average T
time that weevilg Femain in winter
quarters Eis 159Hdays. The fact that |
ones Weevil lived Y255 days, or eight I
and#a half naonBhs, without food In T
dicates that fem the posstbie3BiSE
months staryation does not entirely |
eradicate t9sbht it prepares the way
for much naare effeEtiga ase BE- other
cultnra m ethods ana Spraying. ysAIhs8
length OF time between Coming 4oitApff
winter quarters and, TIE death o. tBek
weeyil hassan impoftaht sfBp Wheaton |
to the time4of spraying of Other Use 7
OF poisons. THE average -Weevil lives
eleven days,but IN one case this pet
Rod reached forty-four days from
winter quarterss o. 2. -s.I, 81. I'D
If rains oceug after the maturity |