The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-09-15
HOW TO BEAT
BOIL WEEVlL.
Grenada County to BE Toured Mon.
day and Tuesday BY Speaker.
Who Want to Help Farmsr,.
Out of Hole, .-.

Ous OF Hole.
Quick action to avert financial dis
aster in Mississippi counties rayish
ed by the boil weevil was planned
yesterday Mt a conference Of Mem
phis and Mississippi bankers. aor;
culturists, cotton factors and cottoy
buyers in the Business Mems Clul
Chamber Of Commerce. =
Sixty meetings will be held mex,
week In IL counties in North Missis.
sippi to tell the farmers what TO do
and to do it now.
The meetings will be conducted bv
Memphis and Mississippi agricultural
forces, bankers and merchants.
In each of the meetings the speak
ers will preach the doctrine suo.
gested yesterday by E. r. Lloyd. d.
rector Of the Mississippi experiment
station at Agricultural College, Miss.
LII. Lloyd recently learned from
county agents in Mississippi that the
boil weeyil has wrought heavy dam
age. He knows whereof he speaks.
This is what he says farmers must
do:
"The first thing for every farmer
and planter to do to meet the crisis
brought on by the boil weevil is to
NOV the ditch banks, roadsides and
everywhere else that ny kind of
grass and weeds are growing, and
make hay. Save even the weeds:
the hay from them will tay,~ good to
the hungry cow next MAI ,uuV Prac-
ticaily every farm in Non Mis-
sissippi has enough rouL to
carry the stock through tln inter
il 1t is saved. /,F
Can Make Much SilaRe.
"One year the experiment station
cut dry corn stalks after the corn
had been gathered, wet the cut
stalks AS they were, run through the
silage cutter and made a fair quality
OF sifage. There are patches of late
planted corn and cane that will make
much feed. \
where the cotton has a bottom
crop only, recommend that after
this has been gathered, the plants be
cut with a mower and raked into
s7s laSse rfh fa sfomssSS fas ssS to sash haXx @ Ml
NAL next February.
''Where there are plenty of cat
tie, turn them into the cotton fields
and let them Craze the plants down
quickly. Where there are no cattle,
cut the cotton stalks with stalk cut
ter and plow them under. This
should be done in September, as if
done this month it will deprive the
boil weevil of two months supply OF
food.
"Sow at once winter oats, rye,
barley, oats and Dwarf Essex rape
for winter pasture. Barley ana
rape must be sown either on rich
land or land that is matured, or else
use cotton seed meal to start the
crop. Rate of seeding per acre:
Oats, two and half to three bushels;
barley, one and half to two bush
els; rye, one and half to two BUSH
els, and Dwarf Essex rape, from 10
to 12 pounds. The earlier these
crops are sown the more pasture they
will furnish. Sow now. Disc the
land and sow the seed.
Cash Crop for Next Year.
"Sow large acreage of red rust
proof oats. They will make an early
cash crop and an early feed crop.
Get them in now.
'Hill farmers in Northern Missis-
sippi should SOW large acreage OF
crimson clover for seed. This Will
make an early cash crop. Get II
seeded before September 20.
1.-THE delta planters can sow large
acreages of alfalfa on buckshot land
in the next three weeks and get from
five to six cuttings of hay next sea
son that will make both an early ol
late cash crop.
"Plant a garden before Septembel
Is.
"Save the brood sow and the cows
The winter pastures recommende'
will provide for both. Keep SOM
hens to produce food and a cash in
come. The cream from the COW
will bring money next winter.
These speakers will be in Grenad
on Monday and Tuesday OF mex
week.
On Monday morning at 10 a. n
Enon; at p. m. Gore Springs;
1880 p. m. Elliott.
On Tuesday morning at 10 a. n
at Holcomb and at 2 p. m. Pea Kldg
It is earnestly urged that thes
speakers be given large audient
at each place.