The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-31
S. c. FARMERS SHOULD Get
READY FOR THE BOIL WEEVIL
(By S. L. Reid, Agricultural Agent,
Seaboard Air Line)

(By S. L. Reid, Agricultural Agent,
Seaboard Air Line)
The dreaded boil weevil was in
South C""olina last year, a few hav-
ing bee found near Hardeeville and
on one Of the islands near Beaufort;
but very few of the farmers of South
Carolina knew it. This long talked of
and terrible pest is now at our very
door, and even yet some do not be-
lleVe that he is ever coming.
If these doubtful ones would take
the time and make the best invest
ment Of their lives by going to our
sister state Of Georgia and see for
themselves the havoc that he has
wrought, they would doubt no lonrer,
but would rush home and begin to
get their land ready for other crops
besides cotton and perhaps they would
make another good investment bv
buying several registered brood sows.
Some few of the far-sighted farm
ers In the lower part of the State
know and realize the danger that IS
before us and they are preparing and
will ber cady for the boil weevil when
he arrives. In sections where this nest
has come it has taken the farmers
and business men from three to five
years to .readjust themselves to the
new conditions, yet we who arc for
tunate enough to still have time to
prepare are doing very little.
The cry of the silver-tongucd ora
tors has been "Preparc for the boil
wceVll, but very few of them have
ever pointed out to the farmer exact
~ no" he can prepare, and they Of
Ter % nm no market for the crops they
tell HIM no n,Io1,t 70
farmer wants to know and to see is
some real cash money coming il, bp-
sides the few bales Of cotton he sells
in the fall. " '~'''
but the writer desires to cali attcnt;or
to only one. and to mention a few con.
crete Instances where farmers arc
ready for the boil weevil and no lonr-
er dependent on cotton to determine
their prosperity for the coming year.
In the state of South Carolina there
is only one hog to every two peonle
and you could hardly cali razor .bac:;
hog. The one thing that the farmer
can DO that will bring him in money
any month in the year is by the rails
ing of pure-bred live stock. The live
STOCK OF the nations across the water
mas terribly decreased, and we will ne
called upon to replenish them viii
good hogs and cattle. Some roay saw
that we cannot wait until the way IS
oyer, but the answer to that is very
simple. 80 'eiS
The demand for pure-brcd hogs in
this country far exceeds the supply
from all appearances will continue to
90 so Tor years to come. The writer
recently visited the farm of pros
porous farmer in this section OF the
state and bought from him ir one
nour over $500 worth of registered
pigs ABOUT three months old. THIS man
USED TO be Dig cotton man and the
price OF cotton determined his pros-
perity. He now has a few brood scws
acres of corn, velvet beans, SOW beans
ETC., but he also has some cotton T.
makes practically no difference to him
@hether cotton brings thirty cents or
i've i've cents pound. He knows that
therc IS always demand for his MOS
ana people come to his place to buv
them. If cotton brings thirty cents :,
pound ne has few more hundred to
ms credit, but if it brings one cent
pei, pound he still buys new auto.
i,hopile ana great many more liberty
ponds than the cotton man with tbir,
ty cent cotton.
LOW many cotton men can point to
%hGo coming to him in the middle Of
?uly! Sounds like fairy tale, but Il
The writer on the same dav won't.
en- TO another farm, the oWre. of
Wnlch also used to be a big cottor
man. put ne is just like the other man
Ee knows that the boil weevil ,s con-,
lfE ana he is ready for him, Gn ,l,-
s,olusely refused to sell his pigs for
Ihe simple reason that he did not wnnt
Or ,'fed the money. Think of it. hI,
!olIon farmer, refusing real n,onpv
IN july Sounds ike another fs:ry
'aie' PUT y is another fact.
rull-blooded pigs at ten week, ola
ere ere now selling at from twenty f.,
ilty dollars and as I said before tho
IIemand far exceeds the supply. Thcro
mas bcen placed in this section Of tbo
state IN the past six months over dn0
registered Duroc-Jersey pigs. Tho,,,
SANDS OF dollars have been scnt ~
georgia and to Florida for these r;cse
WnEh thls money could have inst ne
we'll stayed at home. '''' 10
Inc banks throughout the State ara
very anxious to have their customnrs
ipegin TO diversity and are willinp 70
ienu Just as readily on full -bloodcI
mogs as they are on cotton The boIi
weevl IS coming and we cen now
count by the months how far he ;s
away, put yet few, very few, are Dot9
tihg ready for him, although notb;nu
YOU'D pay the farmers anv bettnr
aLan by investing in few good brood
soWs, and If they do nothing else tbov
WI, pe partially ready for that nest