The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-11-21
HOW TO FIGHT WEEvIL
If YOU RAISE COTTON
Limit Your Acreage And Follow The
Rules If You Would Avoid
Crop Failure

ton, you will no doubt seriously con-
slider before you over-plant the fieecy
staple another year.
Should you neglect this and try to
ignore the pest you will be a wiser
but sadder" man next planting time.
Raising cotton now means more
work than ever before.
/. Rip up or pillow under all cotton
stalks Immediately.
2. Do not burn stalks. To do so
will destroy from twenty to forty
pounds of nitrogen per acre, worth
about twenty to twenty-five cents a
pound.
Effectively burying the stalks
with big disk pillow is the most de-
sirable practice.
A. To be effective in controlling
weevils this work should be done De-
fore frost occurs.
5. Cut and destroy weeds and
trash on terraces, ditch banks and in
surrounding fields and woods.
6. Prepare the seed bed carefully
and thoroughly and we'll in advance
of the time of planting.
Z. Plant as soon as soil shows a
temperature of seventy to eighty de-
grees.
8. Plant only properly standard
lied, rapid-fruiting, early maturing
varieties.
8. Plant only on welldrained soil
of good quality.
10. Fertilize literally and in ac-
cordance with the grade and charac-
ter of soil selected for planting.
IL. Put all fertilizer under the
drill row and mix thoroughly with
soil at or before planting time.
IL. Side applications, if used at
all, should be made very early in the
season.
IA. At least double the amount
used under cotton.
Chop cotton to a stand as early
as possible, leaving two plants to hill.
10. Cultivate the cotton once a
week so as to conserve moisture and
hasten development.
l6. Continue cultivation as late in
to the season as possible.
II. Go over the field systemati-
cally on Monday morning and pick
weevils as they come out from their
winter quarters.
IS. This is neither as hard or as
costly a job as people think, as the
weevils do not appear in great num-
bers early in the season.
10. The weevil will make his first
appearance in the field from that
quarter which has furnished him with
the most favorable hiding place. such
as barns, outbuildings, trash covered
banks and woods
20. Destruction of the weevils
early in the season is the most i'm
portant work which can be accom-
plished.
Fl. Pick the weevils every Monday
morning until squares begin to form.
~. If necessary pay something ex-
ira to have this work done effectively.
70. If the pickingof the weevils is
not properly supervised it is wasted
effort.
"a. AS soon as squares form cease
picking weevils.
%. Pick all fallen squraes UP every
Monday morning and burn them.
26. This is not hard job in spite
OF opinion to the contrary, as infest-
ed areas are usually scattered when
the weevils first appear in a given
field.
n. Keep this practice UP until the
middle of July or until the weevils
begin to fly.
70. Limit cotton acreage to the
area which can be handled in the
manner indicated.
20. About this time weevil infesta-
ton will have reached twenty to
thirty per cent.
80. Spraying should now be under
taken with forty per cent strength
calcium arsenate.
81. Use as dust staple, putting it
on late in the evening or early nj
the morning while the dew is on the
plants.
81. The weevil drink the dew and
IN this way get enough of the poison
to kill large per centage of them.
80. Spray once a week for five or
six weeks.
"a. The cost will vary from $500
to $500 per acre.
80. The result will depend on the
skill with which the work is done.
IS. A net return of from $500
to $500 per acre at present prices
for cotton and cotton seed may be
anticipated from spraying.
81. The cost of spraying outfits
wlll vary according to their size and
efficiency.
SO. A good type of hand spray car
be purchased for $500 to $4,000.
80. Power sprayers will cost from
$400 to 5000.
40. Do not depend on spraying
alone if you expect to raise cotton
successfully and profitablv unde,