The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20
VISIT BOIL WEEVIL.
MANNING AND EXPERTS TO
STUDY PEST In ALABAMA
MUST GUARD This STATE

Governor 10 lake Weeks 1Tlp VI
Inspection to the District Where
Boil Weeyils' Ravages are Worst
To Plan Fight Against This Cot
ton Pest.
A News and Courier dispatch from
Columbia says: In order to see for
himself what the actual conditions
are in sections ravaged by the boil
weevil and with the idea of getting
some information valuable in fighting
the weevil before it can extend its
blighting presence to this state, Gov.
Richard I. Manning and several Of
the Clemson College authorities will
make a trip of inspection to the Mis-
sissippi Valley during the week Octo-
Der 1928. The inspection trip will
be made through Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi, where the boil weevil has
been at its worst.
In addition to the governor the
party which will make the inspection
trip will be composed of w. NJ. Riggs,
president of Clemson College; Sena-
tor Alan tombstone of Newberry,
president of the Clemson board of
trustees J. N. Harper Of Clemson
College, B. H. Rawls, Of the animal
industry of the United States depart
ment and trustee Of Clemson Col
lege, and a Mr. Hunter, special
agent of the federal agricultural de-
partment.
The party will leave Columbia on
Saturday morning on No. 9, at 40,
over the Southern Railway, and go
direct from Spartanburg to New Or
leans, reaching there Sunday morn
| ing. Places which will be visited in
Louisiana will be: Alexandria, Mon
roe, TalluIah, and to Vicksburg,
Miss. Other points in this State visit
ed will be Natchez, Brookhaven,
Jackson, and then back to Birming-
ham, Ala, reaching that city on Fri
day morning and come direct home,
getting back to Columbia on the fol-
lowing Saturday, the entire trip be-
| ing made in one weeks time.
Gov. Manning is thoroughly alive
to the serious situation facing this
state from the onward sweep OF the
boil weevil pest, which has now
reached within one hundred and
forty miles of the South Carolina
border. In order to prepare the pco-
pie for the coming of the wcevil, or
better still, to find some method OF
bringing it to a stand on the Geor-
gia border, if possible, he wants to
get first hand information and to see
for himself just what are the condl-
tions in these sections of the cotton
belt over which it has travelled.
The governor realizes that unless
something is done to get ready that
when the boil weevil comes it may
| bring ruin and destruction. 1t is
said by those who have seen its aW-
| full results that the bell weevil Is
worse than the pcstilences which
swep: over Egypt when Pharoah re-
fused to let the children leave that
land
The governor is working day and
night on ideas which he is able to get
that might prove of benefit and prac-
tical use in getting the people OF
South Carolina prepared for the
dreaded boil wcevil and prevent ruin
and want. To draw its fa.ngs and to
combat in some measure its ruinous
] presence the governor is making this
trip to the pest-infected section OF
the cotton belt to see how they ham
died it and to get the benefit of prac-
teal experience with its dread pres
ence.
The trip of the governor and his
party will be through part of the sec
ton where farming land which sole
at one hundred and fifty dollars per
acre dropped to five dollars per acre
with the coming Of the boil weevll.
The production of cotton is practil-
ly cut off entirely in the boil weeVll
sections and the people must turn to
grain and other crops and go into
| the cattle industry to prevent actual
want from getting them while the
boil weevil rampages.
The governor will give the people
detailed information of his trip, and
it is expected that something in the
way of good ideas for fighting the
! boil weeviI will be obtained by the
South Carohnians who are going on
this inspection journey.