The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-04
Stamping Gu The Boil
 Weevil.

The cotton boil weevil has ravaged zrxzusgs for some ten years or long e. Although this state has an Agri- rnltarxI department of her State Uni- mBzsiay. and three District Agricultur- u Schools. it seems that no systematic, organized effort to stamp sns the boil weevil has been made-if 90. our newspapers have said nothing about it. In the state of Georgia 1t is different. The boil weevil has been ehsrs but few years, yet boil wee wa school" has been organized, and nxmght week or two during each <nxzmer. and young farmers given free sufsfon therein, as the article tells abSut what its writer learned therein aAsa summer. This article appeared lm she Carroll County Times, of Car r0lli0n, Georgia, last week, written hy !. | Mcclure, he having been one at she seventeen young men who at tended the school" from Carroll County. according to the government report showed that 34000 bales of cotton had been ginned up to January, gszs. for fhe year 1919. Here is the srticIe spoken Of above, entitled
 Fighting the Boil WeeviI"
 Having been requested to write on ghe direct method of fighting the boil Neevil and letting the good people of zhs Free State of Carroll know some aF the many things we learned while attending the holl weevil school at Athens. would appreciate it very much if you will publish the following:
 This subject is more important just snw than anything that could be dis snzsed, to the farmers, since the wee rfl damaged the 1919 crop of cotton sn the state of Georgia, approximately g1zD, ,D0 .000 and 1t is getting time that ahs farmers were sitting up and talk smg notice of what is going on in the state.
 There are several points to be look ed into if we are to continue raising sDftnn and expect reasonable profit afum same To begin with we are ad- xised to make a practice of cutting our snafau stalks and turning them under isrsy in the fall as possible. Bury the stalks as deep as you possibly can. TOT course this will apply to next fall as there are no weevils on the szzRks aow-they have gone into win CT wuartersl They are waiting until syrsnE to give us another call, and xfuee we have failed to do this the best thing to do now is to break your land as early as possible and get 1t in sianting in order to get the best re- salts. Put all the fertilizer you are yDIng to use on your cotton before, or szs the time of planting, and do not, un- fer any consideration. apply top dresser, as your top or side dresser sill prolong the growth of your plant and retard maturity of the bolls. We are also advised to use little intelli- renee, and not plant more than we ran blow each week, for while the slant is growing is the time to push it and hasten it's maturity. The number ag weevils we will have, or rather the amount of damage they will do, will sepend to a certain degree upon the rafnfaIl during the month of July. If aH have considerable rainfall we may asok for more weevils and a greater ger cent of damage, than were it to be tair during the month.
 We should watch our cotton careful gr and as soon as we have evidence Of ahe weevil. we should begin picking up all the forms and burning them. Keep ahfs up until the weevil have increased ao such proportions that 1t will be ad- sfsabIe to use the spray, but We are not advised to begin using the spray ss soon as the weevil appears, because se are after the production of cotton crop as cheap as possible, and to make ahe greatest possible yield per acre. sut when it becomes necessary to use ehe spray, be careful and use 1t while lEhe dew is on the cotton leaves, late iiu the afternoon and early in the morn ing fs the proper time to use your ma chine. It will require from 1 to : pounds of arsenate per acre. each ap- Biication, owing to the gait the man Nalks, and the speed he puts on the nachine Your calcium arsenate will eose about 9 or 27 cents per pound, and 1t will take from 1 to applica- ksOns during season. Then on top af your cost of your calcium arsenate you must figure about one dollar per acre for the cost of the spraying ma chine. as one only lasts about two sea sDns, though with malicious use and care one will last three or sometimes fsxsyr aaaonne hut fha averaga farmpr szn only figure on about two seasons Nf good service from hand sprayer.
 
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