The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-04-12
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seed bed and then give it Intelligent
cultivation Is like hn'lding a nice
house and keeping 1t in repair but
without protection by insurance.
Should Are destroy it then 1t would be
q total loss. So II is with our crops.
Diseases and i1eect pests might over.
run them znd then the crop IS loss
instead OF profit We sent out warnings
IN the talI and fac winter urging every
one to destroy the winter hotels OF
Asects. Have you cone this careful
ly? Look agaan and see If there are
stu any dirty terraces or ditch
banks on the farm. Are there still any
waste desds er neglected old orchards
hear Ute sslas planted IN cotton and
corn. II ehere are, the Bugs will take
shef hats of to you and say, Thank
you, we enjoyed your hospitality very
much"
DID you destroy all the pokeweed?
Look again and be sure. What have
You done cbout the violets around the
tenant houses on the farm? Are
you substituting other ornamental
plants or do you intend to spray
:ISS-? You are busy now making
your CROPS and would not want to
assure any one that those violets will
be sprayed. When cotton becomes
large enough for the plants to touch
each other and dry weather sets In 1t
Is too late and you Will have a cotton
red spider fight on your hands. The
fight Is your own game or may be that
Of your neighbors; talk TO them about
t.
The planting date for corn is impor-
tant in order to reduce bud-worm in
jury. Ask for bulletin 161 Of the s.
c. Experiment Station; It is short and
can be read in a few minutes.
Those stony, stumpy, weedy fields
and terraces on the farm are the win
ter hotels that protected the chinch-
bugs. From these places they come
to the grass and grain and when these
are harvested the pests march to the
corn fields. Such waste places do not
merely look bad on the farm but we
should remember that they are lodg-
ing houses that shelter the destructive
cases on the number OF insects that
amount Of damage depends in most
costs on the number Of insects that
passed through the winter success
fully. Let US look at It from this
viewpoint. It makes one angry and de-
termined that he will not tolerate
such places on the farm # he can help
It.
What plans have you made about
the manure this year? Are you going
to let It accumulate IN heaps for the
housefy to breed by the millions?
Have you thought about screening the
erivy closet and to put a barrel Of air
slake6 lime to be used there? It
sould be done right now. If you fail
10 DO this the pests will be your unin-
v9ted guests at every meal Of the day.
They will force themselves on you and
guests coming to you direct from the
manure heaps and privy closets with
the putrid materials hanging to their
hairy coat, and they trail it over your
butter, meat and bread; they take e
bath In your milk and they fall into
the coffee. OF course you put out the
milk and coffee and get some more,
but what do you think Of 1t as remedy?
How many had bathed in the milk be-
fore It came to the table and when YOU
were not looking? "Swatting" is all
right as far as It goes. Every time
you hit one square so as to mash 1t
there OF. course there is one fly less
II you loak upon It as an arithmetic
problem. but do you suppose the whole
Q. 8. army could swat all the flies
that breed about one good sized i'll
kept dairy:
Flies can not chew solid food but
they dissolve It with their saliva and
chen take It. Now imagine several
aies sitting on the jelly on your plate,
or on the sugar. splitting on it and lick
ing It. With your hand you shoe the
dies away, run your knife or spoon un-
der the Jelly, sugar or whatever 1t
may be and pass TO the mouth.
Look after the manure and Che
prlvy closets, which are the most i'm
portant breeding grounds, and reduce
the number OF flies at the source.
Al CONRAD,