The Forrest City times., 1911-04-14

lZers, acid phosphate and potash to hasten the maturity of the crop and to increase the yield tFor informa ton in regard to the quantity to usa for your land write to the agronomr department of this experiment sta. ton). Plant the rows far enough apart to allow the sun to reach tha fallen squares and thus to kill many or the grubs. 1t has been found that 1t pays we'll to pick up the squares and destroy them. This prevents many weeyils from developing. Since you cannot get a top crop under boil weevil conditions, it would be a say. ing to increase the lowest and middle crops by barring off or topping before the plants get too large. IL is recon. mended to agitate the plants by st. taching brush to the handles of the cultlYators so as 10 hasten the fall ing of the infested squares. Improve the energy and condition of the soil by crop rotation so as to encourage the rapid development of the plants Rotate cotton with corn and COW peas. blowing the .atter under for humus. Cotton following cotton year after year reduces the fertility of ths land and thus delays the maturity Of the crop. r is a good plan 10 pIant onehaf of your land to cotton and the other half to corn and COW peas, rotating these crops every year. EyS dently it requires more labor to mah. age an acre of cotton when the boil weeYil is bad than when there is no weeyil. Therefore the grower would d0 better to plant no more land than he can take proper care of and use the rest of his farm for other pur- poses; thus he can easily secure the desired rotation Of crops which in t. self is a Encouragement to the wee vii, since 1t feeds only on cotton.
 How to Control the Boil Worm.
 The methods above outlined for ths boil weevil also include two Of the most important measures against the boil worm, namely, fall blowing and securing an early crop of cotton. la N~'S SS@SN AoAt PiN"AiE 10 NNAt 4tAPSAS ant. since 1t breaks up the earthen cells of the pupae, which are the tender age of the insect, and exposes these forms to the winter weather, which they are not used to. They cannot stand this change in eondl- tious. whether the winter storms arc Or merely cold rains. Wherever tho weevil is not bad fall blowing for the boil worm can be postponed until late fall or early winter The boil woras feed by preference on corn, and are the same as the corn ear worm. Ad- worm to trap and destroy them by means of early June corn. It has been observed that the moths wiih lay their eggs on the silk of the green corn if this is obtainable when they ara flying, in marked preference to cotton or other cultivated plants The moths of the third generation' which fly in August, do not like the hard ears of corn for laying their eggs, and so they seek the succulent bolis Of cotton for this purpose. If. there fore, some green corn is standing near by in silk the cotton will be saved When the cotton seed is planted leave vacant strips about every twenty-five or thirty rows across the fields ID these SOW Juno corn about June l. followed in ten days by COW peas in alternate rows. This will put ths corn in silk and the COW peas in bloom about August 1. The blossoms of the COW peas will attract the moths, which will seek the nectar for their food. They will then lay the bulk. of their eggs on the silk of the corn which they can find so handy right by the peas About three weeks later the ends of the ears can be cut on to destroy the worms. The fodder and grain will entirely pay for plant ing the corn and the COW peas Will enrich the soil, which will produce more cotton the next year. and thus they will pay for themselves in a. years time.