The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-10-25
PREPARE FOR BOIL
WEEVIL SAYS GOV.
SHADOW OF APPROACHING PEST
HAS ALREADY BEEN CAST
OVER THE STATE.
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That the shadow Of the approaching
boil weevil has already been cast
, over South Carolina and the dread
pest will arrive within another year
and within three years will overrun
the state was the prediction made By
Governor Richard l. Manning on his
return from a tour OF the boil weevil
stricken territory OF louisiana, Misslss-
ippi and Alabama The governor says
the farmers and business men OF South
Carolina must prepare for the weevil
or else dire ruin and disaster may re-
suit.
Those who shut their ears to the
warning voice brought from the farm
ers of the Mississippi valley may reap
the whnlwind and where today they
are living in ease and plenty with
good lands and good cotton crops they
may find themselves with no cotton,
their lands worth less than nothing,
their labor gone and ruin staring them
in the face II they do not prepare.
Prepare! Prepared" declares the
governor Of South Carolina fresh
from personal trip through these
sections of the cotton belt which have
been ravaged by the boil weevil. Here
is an instance of what the boil weevil
means:
In the parish Of West Felciana,
louisiana parish being county
in 1904 there was produced 22,497
bales Of cotton. Three years after the
bon weevil invaded that county in
1910 only 81 bales of cotton were rails
ed in the whole county. Governor
Manning visited that stricken spot and
saw the conditions himself.
In the Parish Of East Feliciana.
louisiana, in 1904 $4,000 bales OF cot
ton were grown. This same county
last year after the coming of the Wee
vii raised only $3.50 bales of cotton.
Governor Manning and the commits
sion to inspect the boil weevil terri
tory first stopped at New Orleans.
where they were met and entertained
by the business men. Thre they stud
led the credit side Of the conditions
brought about by the ravages Of the
boil weevil in the cotton districts.
The governor talked with John NJ.
Parker, the vice presidential nominee
on the Bull Moose ticket, and promi-
nent business man of that city. From
New Orleans the governor and his
party went to Baton Rouge where they
met the farmers and business men and
talked with them of the boil weeVil
conditions. TIL governor and his com,
mission visited the territory where the
weevil has wrought its worst and in
terviewed the farmers and their wives.
the merchants and bankers and gath
cred first hand information about how
to meet the conditions which arise
with the coming Of the weevil.
The governor found that co-opera-
ton between farmers merchants and
bankers enabled the people to adjust
themselves to the new conditions and
save the country from ruin. The mer-
chants there, as here. had made ad-
vances on cotton but the weevils ruin
ed cotton. They called in the farmers
and told them they would cooperate
and either sink or swim together.
They made advances and the farmers
bought hogs, cattle. put in food crops
such as potatoes, beans, etc., increas-
ed their grain crops and made the
cattle business their principal indus
try.
BY, patronizing the creameries they
soon got a good steady income from
milk. AS result while the volume Of
business is smaller it is all cash, the
credit system is thing Of the past.
Lands which decreased in value when
the weevil first came under the new
conditions are climbing back to their
original prices and the people are
thriving on diversified and intensive
farming.
louisiana, which has grown 1,031.000
bales Of, cotton dropped down low as
245,000 bales in one year but this year
will probably raise 100000 bales. The
weevil's ravages are the worst in three
years and after that they do not seem
to do as much damage but they are
always present. once they arrive they
cannot be gotten rid of. They lay
their eggs in the cotton squares and
eat out the bolls. No cotton blooms
are seen after August and the wet
wears are the ones in which the wee
wills get in their worst work.
In one weevil ravaged county IN
Mississippi the governor found that
the farmers had turned to the cattle
industry and two creaneries were
paving at the rate of $4,000 month
the milk furnishing the one STEADY
source of income for the farmers.
Everywhere the people advise US
to keep cool and by no means le'
our labor get away from US when the
weevil comes" said the governor. he
advises the farmers to prepare tnli
fall for the coming OF the weeviI os
economizing. increasing their grain
planting, plant more foodstuffs, gel
some hogs and cows, plant cloVers
wherever possible. and should encou