Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-07
MORE COUNTIES
SCHEDULED FOR
THE WEEV|L TOUR

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 6.-Additionai
speaking dates extending through
March 1st and carrying the boil wee.
vii fight into SO new counties between
now and that date, were announced to-
day by the state department of ento-
mology, as follows:
January s, Millen, Jenkins county
Jan. 8, Sylvania, Screven county; Jan
10, Swainsboro, Emanuel county; Jan
II, Louisville. Jefferson; Jan. IL, San
dersville, Washington; Jan. 13, Eaton
ton, Putnam; Jan. "a, Valdosta,
Lowndes; Jan. %. Waycross, Ware;
Jan. 26, Blackshear, Pierce; Jan. 81,
Folkston, Charlton; Jan. 29, Jesup,
Wayne; Jan. 80, Hinesville, Liberty /;
Jan. 81, Ways Station, Bryan; Febru-
sry 1, Springfield. Effingham; Feb. 2,
Statesboro, Bulloch; Feb. 3 Meter,
Gambler; Feb. 6, Fitzgerald, Ben Hill; !;
Feb. Z, Douglas, Coffee; Feb. 8, Alma,
Bacon; Feb. 8, Baxley, Appling; Feb.
10. Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis; Feb. IL, Nc
Rae, Telfair; February 13, Alamo,
Wheeler; Feb. IA, Mt. Vernon, Mont
gomery; Feb. Is, Lyons, Toombs; Feb.
16, Reidsville, Tattnall; Feb. II, Clax-
ton, Evans. Feb. 10, Eastman, Dodge;
Feb. 20, Rochelle, Wilcox; Feb. 21,
Hawkinsville, Pulaski; Feb. %, Coch-
ran, Bleckley; Feb. %, Perry, Hous-
ton; Feb. 26, Jeffersonville, Twiggs;
Feb. q, Dublin, Laurens; Feb. 2S,
Wrightsville, Johnson; March 1, Irwin
ton, Wilkerson, March 2, Milledgeville
Baldwin; March 3, Sparta, Hancock.
The state department of entomology,
which is the only organization in Geor-
gia conducting actual experiment and
research work on the boil weevil prob
lem, has been holding meetings ever
since August 16, and has visited al
ready fifty counties in the state, and
is planning at the earliest possible
date to enter the county.
Much Ground 10 Be Covered.
Because of the ground to be covered.
it is possible to give only one day to
each county, but meetings are held
Goth in the morning and afternoon, so
that the situation is thoroughly cover
ed. The meetings are held in the
county courthouses, and immense
crowds have greeted the department
speakers everywhere.
The regular speakers are State En-
E. Lee Worsham, and AS
sistants A. c. Lewis and Ira w. Will
liams, both expert cotton breeders.
When possible they are Joined by w.
D, Pierce of the United States bureau
Of entomology.
At these meetings Georgia men ia
miliar with Georgia conditions tell the
actual results of experiments made in
Georgia, covering a period of the last
ten years. Results which embrace not
merely the combating of the boil Wee
vii, but the planting of the right va
rieties of cotton, which is more import
ant than any other phase of the prob
lem, and the handling of other cotton
diseases. The work has been studied
from the standpoint of Georgia soil,
Georgia climate, Georgia conditions,
and is one which no other agency has
accomplished.
WeeviI Is Here To Stay.
Occasional talk we see published
about eradicating the boil weevil." says
State Entomologist Worsham, lis on
It's face absurd There can be no such
hing as eradication. The boil weevil
must be recognized as a permanent fac
-or in cotton production which we will
las as long as we grow cotton, and
The problem is for the farmers to make
up their minds to this and learn how
-C meet the conditions.
ANY fight made to combat the boil
weevil is useless without planting
right varieties of resistant cotton and
combating the other diseases
which attack cotton, the worst of
which in Georgia are black root, an
angular leaf spot and nema-
Lode"
The state department has compiled
tie result of its investigation as to
" hich are the best varieties of cotton
to be planted in the different sections
Of the state, and this information may
cow be had from the department. It
+ &c bad ohar0a anI diraof{oV oe cotton