The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-12-06
rHHIWATeHMAN And DEC EaBER= 1919

phosphate SO as 80 make .rRulL Hlf-T
ture5 early. The amount Of fertilizer
10 use will depend upon your land.
If your land makes a good stalk With
ont much nitrogen. you wou3dnt use
as much as you would on land that
requires nitrogen in large quantities
to make the stalk Chop out as soon
as possible, then cultivate every week
to ten days. BY cultivating. every
week to ten. days You cover the pune
tured squares with dirt and the wee
wills die. The Old adult weevils should
be picked off Then they first appear
in the spring. Do this every week:
Also pick up any punctured squares
that you may lind and burn them.
The boil weevil is hard to poison
due to the fact that he eats the in
.side OF the squares and there's. no
way of getting the. poison on the. in
side :of the squares. There is only
one way left for US to poison hi'",
and. that is to poison the water that
he drinks. This water is the dew
drops. Calcium. arsenate has been
tried. out in several experiments and
has given fair results. The poisonius
of the boil weevil is still in the eS-
perimental stage but l feel sure that
by next spring powder guns: shat will
meet all requirements will have been
perfected and manufactured n such
numbers that farmers can secure
them at reasonable prices. These
guns will probably cost from S1o.0O
Ooi ,nfo &c CO H
ing for about thirty cents per pound.
IT requires about five pounds TO go
:oyer ;an acre. and four or five appE-
cations are required during the sea
son. The poison powder is blown
over the cotton plants late in the al
ternoon. and dis dissolved in the dew.
The weevils drink this dew in the
morning. thus killing them. This will
not Kill all of the weeYils though.
There will be plenty left to do consid-
erable damage but-it will@reduce them
enough so that fair crop of cotton
can be made.
+ Plant just the amount OF cotton
next year that you can afford to loose,
for it will take one year TO convince
S0Ine dNO fOf tNIS Ot1ISIS 't! l%-si ~ ti>,'N
to handle ,1he:3aew visitor.
Livestock means success in spite OF
the boil weevi1. 70 succeed in boil
,weevil 1erraery@ we must have cattle,
hogs, land ,peultry, and grow corn,
oats. cewpeas. velvet beans, potatoes,
peanuts. etc, for market.
II one crop fails we wifi have an
other to depend upon. bat il we grow
,oettofl alone and the boil weeva takes
il, our entire work is gone.
Livestock means the baildins up
of the soil, and as the soil improves,
profits increase.
Livestock will keep, the boys and
girls ON the farms. .A man will ;Dnt
up better buildings if he lives ON his
farm than he will if it is oceurted by
4 tenant. Litestock cans sraise
what you feed and feed what you
raise on yo,1raown farm" When you
grow Your crops and, ship them away
you are Shipping the fertility from
the .soi,: Don,t' jus, havefa piece OF
land or a farm" have a home :son the
land and ,nlaEesit worth living in:s:: :.
aiary farmers: labor. under the i'm
preston that he proper way to. star,
into the liyesteck. business is, hrs.., 20
decide ion the KIND Of .breed OF live
stock best suited. 10 their. -farn1 ai,t
conditions and tiaen get the STOCK. ~ = . ;.
The first thing 10 .1o y 20 establish
pastures. But the man who has never
raised stock upo: the farm is 'tls.tasy
not. equipped with fences and pas
lures, and these. are the farmers who
must realize that pastures come be-
fore livestock. or else he makes an
absolute failure. Pastures are essen
.ti&4 TO; profitable livestock production
The. farmer who has geoa pastures
soon learns that they have saved from
so 70 Is per cent Of the high priced
grains.
Steers, sheep, hogs and all younS
animals make the cheapest and most
econimical growth during the pasture
season; the longer the pasture season
the cheaper animals can be produced
When Il steer is fattened during the
winter months on dry feed II costs
from eight to twelve cents TO put OF
each pound of fat: these same gains
can be made during the pasture sea-
son at a cost of not moro than three
or four cents pound. This shows
the value of good pastures and hav-
ing. them cxtenaaover as MANY months
OF the years as possible. as the animals
all make their cheaper gains during
the pasture season and their eXpen-
live gains during the dry hot non-pas-
ture season.
Early 10 fence. early TO permanent
pastures and early 10 stock. makes
cur farming as solid as rock.
Decide how much fencing you need
and see your County Agent tor prices,
Fence in good pastures this winter
for the boil wcevil can't Eat livestock.
and good pastures mean more ana
better livestock.
ENGAGEMENT OF MRS.
CONGREEE ANNOUNCED
London. Nov. 1S.-The engagement