Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-16

The Coad system of controlling the
cotton boil weevil in Texas this year
will have the official Endorsement of
the Extension Service of the Texas
A. & M. College. Announcement of
this fact has just reached The Semi
Weekly Farm News from W. B. Ian
ham, assistant director of the Exten-
sion Service, who states that last
years experiments in Texas were so
successful that the College will push
the Coad method with the forces. at
its disposal.
The Semi Weekly Farm News all
along took tn position that the Coad
system of boil weeVil control was en-
hreiy feasible when applied under
Proper climatic conditions, and that
Texas tanners should avail them
selves of the new method, which has
proved so successful in Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi, and in the low
Ell Rio Grande Valley. Early last
summer series of articles on the
Coad system was written by the writ
er after visit to Tallulah, La, and
Scott, Miss, where Mr.. Coad scored
ms greatest successes with his cal
clum arsenate busting. As a result
OF these articles mary farmers in the
lower Rio Grande Valley and other
parts of Texas bought busting ma
chlnery and poison and began opera
tons. Not all Of these were success
tul, chiefly because the application of
the poison was not III accordance with
the atmospheric conditions as indi-
Gated by Coad Much of the poison
ing was on the "hit-and-miss" order;
but even then millions of weevils were
killed, and partial successes were OBJ
tanned in almost every effort. There
were instances in which faulty poison
was used which later was confscated
by the authorities.
This year weevil destruction should
be an entire success, provided cotton
growers will follow the specific in
structions set forth by the inventor
of the Coad method The Extension
Service of the Texas A. & NJ. College
will help in every way possible.
County agents will be instructed to
give helpful advice 70 farmers who
intend to dust with calcium arsenate.
Be Sure of Machinery First.
Poisoning the cotton boil weevil
with calcium arsenate involves
machinery whether it be only hand
"dust gun" or a power buster, either
operated by gasoline engine or one
deriving its power from traction. 1t
is therefore necessary for cotton rails
ers to be certain that they will have
the required rachinery for applying
the dust poison before laying in large
stocks of calcium ,arsenate. They had
better buy early and not wait till the
Weevil appears. Last year Rio Grande
Valley farmers stored up much poison
and later found that they could not
obtain sufficient machines for apply
in 1t, and much cotton was lost as
result. A dust gun can only be used
on a very small acreage, as it entails
hard labor, and at most only two or
thee acres of cotton a day can be
busted properly with it.
Machinery for busting cotton with
calcium arsenate for boil weevil con-
troll bids fair to be, in the Southern
States, one of the most important
kinds of farm machinery" said Mr..
Coad in a recent interview. "As the
new demonstrated method of control
comes more and more into use, an in
crcasingly large number of farmers
will be in the market for machines.
Several seasons must elapse before
the initial demand is met After that
the renewal demand will probably be
just as steady as it now is for now
ing machines, for cultivators, for
plows. The manufacturer who gets
into the game now and tries to meet
the actual needs Of the situation, in
stead of trying to make excessive
profits on the first seasons run will
establish himself as a pioneer in a