Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-07-10
Letter from Mr.. Hibb1er.

Pditor Of The Beacon
| see letters in your issue of week be-
fore last in reference to the "Manor"
mixture and the effect on the boil wee
vii. Now | am surprised at Mr.. Had
don, as he onlymade a superficial exam
ination of a little cotton, and on one cut
he found a row with some weevil on it.
Now ] have gotten good results from
the use of the mixture as I would not
continue to use it. and it did!not get re-
su have also caught weevils and
picked up squares. If the squares that
fall are allowed to remain IN 1.-THE sun a
little while the weevil is dead. / am
satisfied with my work and with my
crop. but do not advise any one to do
as I do, but when asked | am like dear
old Emmett-tell everything | know.
Mr.. PEBBLES of Vienna, Ala, the larg-
est planter in Pickens county, called me
up when | first began to use the mix.
ture and he has been using it since. |
had a talk with him over the phone this
week and he told me he was then mix
ing up enough to 60 over his entire
crop, that is when it rains.
am now adding half a gallon of mo-
lasses to this mixture so as to attract
the ants, and it is working admirably,
as the ants are swarming in millions,
and whenever a young grub weevil
peeps his head out of puncturep square
they have him stored awsy.
Instead of the molasses a mixttre of
meal with enough lard to make it ad-
here to the foliage, then sweeten the
mass, throw it on the cotton and YOU
will have ants by the million.
| am planting my cotton crop this
year under a new method the govern
ment is advocating. | think the gov
eminent must have learned it from
some of our two bit negroes. / did.
You have seen a negro take a little pair
of bulls, break them in the spring, get
his cotton planted by the 10th of Nav.
and come up with two or three bales,
working out three days and in his crop
two, leaving his cotton unthinned until
July. His crop will open earller and
make more according to the work than
well prepared, well worked cotton,
leaving a hedge formed row.
Now. | have left all my cotton in a
hedge-formed row, and am sure | will
get rid,of at least half of the vegeta-
tive stalks, as | did not chop the cotton
out until it was half leg high, but cross
cultivated all the time, which reduced
the hoeing nearly one-half. That is the
secret-it makes more cotton and opens
earlier. Leave it about six to eight
inches in the row and two or three
stalks to the hill according to the land.
My rows are all three and a half feet,
running north and south to get the sun
| am enclosing you in this a part of
bulletin issued by the government in
regard to this method of cultivating
cotton andlits advantages, and if you
have the space please publish it.
1t will be a sad day for the state, in
my opinion, when something is done ia
/, kiil the weevil. We are just now, on
tee up grade. Everybody attention is
being called to- the stocklbnsiness and
if we have no weevils goodbye little
bulls. If we were stock instead of cot
ton raisers we would white labar. more
and better schools, more churches, more
mixing with your neighbors-a thing in
this section, that is almost entirely OF
the past.
The continued drouth has been very
disastrous to the corr crop. Some parts
of this beat will not make a flat grain
of corn aud some of the corn will not
make anything if it rains a month. ]
have very little old coin, nearly all OF
my corr being planted inlMay and June
and on strong bottom land and it is all
, right up to now, Cotton has not made
much growth this hot weather. / am
blowing mine all the times using har-
rows on my cultivatQrs. Yours,
4 UNCLE NED.