The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-04-04
LEST We FORGET

To plant a crop i'm well prepared
seed bed and then give il Intelligent
cultivation is like building nice
house and keeping it in repair but
without protection BY insurance.
Should fire destroy it then Il would be
a total loss SO T. Is with our crops.
Diseases and insect pests might over
run them and then the crop i a loss
instead OF profit. We sent out warnings
In the fall and the winter urging every
one TO destroy the winter hotels of
insects. Have you uone this careful.
ly? Look again and see IL there are
still any dirty terraces or ditch.
banks on the farm Are there still any
waste fields or neglected old orchards
near the fields planted In cotton and
corn, II there are. tho bugs will take
their hats on 20 you and say, Thank
you, we enjoyed your hospitality very
much"
Did YOU destroy all the pokeweedo .
Look again and be sure What have
YOU done about the violets around the
tenant houses on tho farm Are
YOU substituting other ornamental
plants or 10 you Intend to spray
them? You arc busy now making
your crops and I would not want to
assure any on" tina; those vi0lets will
be sprayed Whom cotton becomes
largo enough for The plants to touch
each other and dry weather sets in It
is too late and you VIII have a cotton
red spider fight on your hands The
fight is your own game or may be that
OF vour neichbors: talk TO them about
It.
The planting date for corn Is impor.
tant in order TO reduce bud.worm in.
jury. Ask for bulletin l6l OF the s
c. Experiment Station; it is short and
can be read in few minutes
Those stony. stumpy. wcedy fields
and terraces on the farm are the win.
ter hotels that protected tho chinch
bugs. From these places they come
to the grass and grain and when these
are harvested the pests march 10 tho
corn fields Such waste places do no,
should remember that they are lOdg
ing houses that shelter the destructive
cases on the number Of insects that
amomt Of damage depends I'm most
costs on the number OF insects that
passed through the wintor success.
FULLY I.o' Us look ~ Il from this
vi"wuoi"' II makes ono angry and do.
tormmcd hat nc viii not tolerate
such plD." ON The farm If ne can help
It
What plans Navo YOU made about
'n" manure 'ni, N"ar' Are YOU going
TO let it accumulate IN heaps for The
hoU-"ny TO breed hy the millions?
Have YOU thought about screening tho
privy Closct and - pur a barrel Cf air
slaked lin" 10 he used rh"rc? n
sould be done right nov III you fail
10 do this the pests VIII be your unin.
vited guests at every meal OF the dav
They will force themselves on YOU and
You can not stop IT, They an genial
guests coming to you direct from the
manure heaps and privy closets with
The putrid materials hanging 90 their
hairy coat. and they trail il over your
butter. meat and bread: they take a
bath in your milk and they fall INTO
the CoffeS. or course You put out the
milk and coffee and get some more.
hut what do YOU think OF II as remedy?
How many had bathed in the milk be
fore il came to the table and when you
were not looking? "Swatting" is all
right as far as il goes Every time
Won hit one square 30 as TO mash il
there OF course there IS one fly less
if Won look upon il as an arithmetic
problem but DO YOU suppose the whole