The Green Forest tribune., 1911-04-14

izers, acid phosphate and potash to hasten the maturity of the crop and to increase the yield (For informa- tion in regard to the quantity to use for your land write to the agronomy department of this experiment sta tion). Plant the rows far enough apart to allow the sun to reach the fallen squares and thus to kill mang Z of the grubs. It has been found that it pays well to pick up the squares and destroy them. This prevents many weevils from developing. Since you cannot get top crop under boil
 weevil conditions, it would be a sav- ing to increase the lowest and middle crops by barring off or topping before the plants get too large. It is recom- mended to agitate the plants by at- taching brush to the handles of the cultivators so as to 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 latter under for humus. Cotton following cotton year after year reduces the fertility of the land and thus delays the maturity of the crop. It is good plan to plant one-half of your land to cotton and the other half to corn and COW peas, rotating these crops, every year. Evi- dently it requires more labor to man. age an acre of cotton when the boil weevil is bad than when there is no weevil Therefore the grower would do 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 it. self is Encouragement to the wee vii, since 1t feeds only on cotton.
 How to Control the Boil Worm.
 The methods above outlined for the boil weevil also include two of the most important measures against the boil worm, namely, fall blowing and securing an early crop of cotton. In this case fall blowing is very import ant, since it 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 condi- tions, whether the winter storms are Or merely cold rains. Wherever the weevil is not bad fall blowing for the boil worm can be postponed until late fall or early winter. The boil worms feed by preference on corn, and are the same as the corn ear worm. Ad- vantage is taken of this taste of the worm to trap and destroy them by means of early June corn. It has been observed that the moths will lay their eggs on the silk of the green corn if this is obtainable when they are 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 bolls 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. In these SOW June corn about June 1. followed in ten days by COW peas in alternate rows. This will put the 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 off to destroy the worms. The fodder and grain will entirely pay for plays,. ing the corn and the COW peas wifi enrich the soil, which will produce more cotton the next year, and thus they will pay for themselves in q years time.
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