The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-04
IsS CITIZEN OF DAWSON
no % ,sONIE FROM AN
1VEES REGION.
OoN1S TO FOOLlo. '4RGINS

tion They Can Make No Greater
,r.+ote Than Not to Prepare For
Tho New Conditions.
Having moved to Dawson from the
heart of the boil weevil infested dis
...,. of Alabama I am taking the lib
Wv 70 express a few facts about this
,;4t,o cotton pest. The boil weevil,
little insect, has magnitude of
destruction far greater than those
-ho bova never seen it will be able
- conceive. l have heard the re-
r,ork "Oh, the boil weevil will not
hurt rs in Dawson; our conditions
ora different so often since I have
hoan here that / hope you will note
oorafnllv the following facts, and l
trnst thew will be of some benefit to
tbA people of Terrell county, and that
+bav will not be foolish virgins, . but
will have their lamps filled and burn
inc when the weevil arrives. 1t
vouId do you good to read the para
Me Of the foolish virgins, and apply
# TO the boil weevil conditions and
yourselves.
The people living in a territory
that is just beginning to be infested
by the weevil are prone to make a
i number of mistakes. They have heard
50 much about him that they feel
like they know him, and they hope
against hope that their local condi-
tons are different from the other
81 fellows, and that the weevil will not
hurt them. The old saying, "the
weeyil will not hurt" has been kept
up ahead of him by every section
that he has entered. The weevil has
gotten wise to the fact that the farm
eS believe this, and he has so system
atized his arrival that he almost
proves their statements to be true
until he catches them off their guard,
and then he thrusts the fatal dart
and leaves many strewn beside the
wayside bankrupt and ruined.
Sends Scouts Ahead.
The weevil sends a number of
scouts into the new territory year
pr so before the main army arrives.
The farmers see them, but there are
o few that they do no damage, and
he farmers say all the boil weevil
scare is fake, and before the first
year is over they get where they pay
no attention to him whatever. The
next year the weevil arrives in very
.#arge numbers, but in the latter part
the cotton season. At this time
4hey destroy the entire top crop of
@ottOn. This crop, however. is the
rOp that the frost generally kills,
Pnd there is practically no difference
p the yield. This fact again makes
he farmer believe more strongly
4 pat the Weeyil is a fake. In fact,
De farmer will in a number of cases
Rugh hlm to scOTn, and say the Wee
gets here too late to hurt any,
lng, and many of them will enter
PER- third boil Weeyil year practical
having forgot that such an insect
7RlStS, You can see by this how wise
Re WeeYil is. He is smarter than the
Verage man. He has laid a perfect
ap to test the farmers intellect,
no the farmer falls in defeat in the
dItle Of wits. Having defeated the
rmer in reason ne is now ready to
IN MIN financially. This year the
afmer's crop grows off fine, blooms
la squares up all right, but the Wee
I gets busy right away and sees how
ASt ne can consume the crop. In
act the cotton does not grow fast
SAOugh for him. Before a square
ormS weevil is there ready for it,
III ne kills it right off.
Two or Three BoHs to Stalk.
IN the third year it is nothing to
H. stalks as high as a mans head
MmlA only two or three bolls on it.
81 ne stalk grows very large when it
&9 renewed of the bolls. You can find
#~o or three weevils in every bud.
aA Kinds Of methods are resorted to
H. f. gel rid of them, but to no avail.
me Weevil just literally eats up the
s1llfe thing. This year the average
otIon yield will be a bale, bale and
Il nan and two bales to the mule.
III the little town (Uniontown,
Nd tAat | have been living in there
three warehouses. four gins, and
%o cotton oil mills. Before the Wee
u arrived the town would receive
oH -O,OO0 to $4,000 bales a year,
III the Oil mills would run day and
snt from the first of September to
ne middle Of February. This year
%nlch is the third year of the Wee
Iao6 the town has received about A.
w DaIes, and the oil mills have run
~ twenty days and nights. The
oC reports that | have received from
aSIe are that the oil mills had re-
eIFeu enough seed to run another
On Inc gins would run only
s oI Two a week, and not be kept
' - then. This was the condition
en l lett Uniontown, and l am not
p1sltlon to tell you just what will
NE result. At present lands and
IN stock have decreased in value,
H. H. number of large farmers have
,gu OF are giving it up. There are
sn LUMBER of idle fields that can't be
49, at any price. These people
glQ not believe the weevil could
- .lneln-they said their local con-
~ III were different, and they were