The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-12-12
A BIGGER DOOR OF oPPoRTUni.
TY OPENING FOR THE FARMER

In raising his crop of corn the Flor
ida farmer has had to work early anu
late. After splitting his rails and
building his fences, horse-high. pig
tight and bull-strong, his work has
scarcely begun. After Flooding in the
early dews and bearing the heat and
burdens of the day in sweat and toll,
rain and sunshine, and finally garner
ing his fifteen and twenty, maybe
thirty, bushels to the acre, he has
been forced to stand by and witness
the weevil devour fully fifty per cent.
of his crop. This little insect has fair
ly reveied upon the labor of the farm
err The Florida farmer has been as
gift-horse to this industrious and
greedy little creature, and booted and
spurred, it has ridden him an unmer-
ciful chase.
But there is bigger and brighter
day ahead.
The Florida farmer is now in po-
sition to say to the weevil Col
and he "qust 60
He is m a position to say to the
cattle tick, "Goi"-and he must obey.
He is now, or soon will be, In a po-
sition to say to the white-fiy. Co..
and he must likewise heed the sum
mons.
The brown fungus is rapidly de-
stroying the white fly"
A dip" in the cattle vat means the
destruction of the cattle tick" and a
preparation of carbon bi-sulphide
means the total destruction of the
weevil.
What an enormous saving this will
be to the farmer.
His corn crop will be just twice as
much as it has been all through these
years, and will be very much better,
because it will be more nutritious and
less liable to produce disease.
More than that: All these years the
Florida farmer has bent his energies
to produce a weeyil-proof corn. In
doing so he has had to rely upon a
hard, fiinty ear, which, as rule. while
very excellent corn, is a very small
ear. and necessarily has limited his
yield per acre.
Fearing no longer any depradations
from the weevil, a much larger corn
can be substituted for the smaller
hinty ears, and of course the yield
will be increased accordingly
Mr.. d. H. Irvine, one of our most
farmers, says that in apply
ing the carbon bi-sulphide it is not ne
cessary to follow the more or less
costly directions given in the bulle-
tins issued from the experiment sta
tions, but that it can be applied in any
open space if necessary, just so the
heap of corn is covered sufficiently to
prevent the escape of the fumes Of
the preparation.
This application of the carbon bi-
not only destroys the Wee
wills, but it destroys the weeVil eggs,
and makes the corn immune, and ii
will last for year or two years, or
until it is used up.
But in addition to the carbon BIZ
we were told by Commits
sioner McRae, on his last visit to
Ocala, that a Mr.. A. z. Ruff of ITALIA
hassee, has invented a machine which
destroys the corn weevil.
Running the corn through this ma
chine. the same as treating it with
and their eggs.
Not only this: With this machine
the farmer can cut his hay immedi
ately after rain. run it through this
machine and it is ready for future use.
The nutrition of neither hay nor
grain is in any wise destroyed, and.
indeed, Mr.. McRae says that tests
show that meal made from corn so
treated is better than meal not so
treated
With the corn weevil destroyed, the
cattle tick destroyed. the white fly
destroyed, and the possibility of saw
ing hay regardless of the seasons,
opens the door OF opportunity for
farming in Florida that will make it
beyond all doubt the best farming
state in the Union