The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-09-21
MASS MEETING HELD YESTERDAY
TO CONSIDER BOIL WEEVIL MENACE

The mass meeting held in the court
house yesterday, beginning at IL
o'clock and continuing to 2:3O o'clock
p. M, was attended by about 300 men
farmers, merchants and profess
sional mcn-and is going to prove
epoch-making, we verify believe. The
meeting was held to consider the boil
weevil menace, and the speeches made
were illuminating, highly so. One can
not but wish that every farmer and
business man i'll Union county had
been present.
The meeting was called to order by
}. f. Mcclure, president Of the Union
Chamber of Commerce and Agricul-
ture. After a briee speech explaining
the object of the gathering, introduced
MIR. j. p. Quinerly of Lee county. Mr..
Quinerlv told how to meet the boil
weevil menace. Without attempting
to give a detailed report of this ex-
cellent speech, We present the points
briefly that were given by him to fight
the boil weevil:
1. Destroy the cotton stalks. Do
this as early as possible, say by Oct.
10.
2. Clean up all trash on hedge row
and terrace, burning this litter. The
boil weevil hibernated in the trash
and in the cotton stalks left in the
field. Experience has shown that cot
ton can be grown under boil weevil
conditions by these two things.
3. Pick the squares that have been
punctured in the early spring and
burn them. This method alone has
proven to be sufficient to grow fair
crop Of cotton under boil weevil con-
ditions. The picking must start in
May and continue to August, picking
over the fields twice week. Each
weevil picked means two pounds of
cotton saved.
L.. Use fertilizer generously. Use
about what you did under pre-boll
weevil conditions.
5. Don't cut out cotton, but reduce
acreage.
g. Rotate crops. Grow the food and
feed stuffs. Build up your soil,
These five points made by Mr.. Quin-
with authority, from actual expert
ence and observation.
After Mr.. Quinerly had spoken, Mr..
McLure introduced Mr.. n. @. Bates, of
the industrial development depart
ment of the Southern Railway. Mr..
Bates made a most practical speech.
Wegive only the bare points made:
2 IA You can grow cotton right on.
:.Rcnf cut gut cottan ss sly. zss
80 Diversity ypnr flEnii xGkehk
200, acre farm, for example. What
will you do with that farm under boil
Nesyil conditionsf ~ Have some
cows: (2) some hogs; (3) raise sweet
potatoes; (4) figure just how mnchsit
will take Of that 200 acres to raise
an fAe food and feed Istufs necessary
ySs
farms then plant all the rest In cotton.
Take the precautiop to follow the
advice of Mr.. Quineriy as to how TO
treat: the acres planted to cotton, and
You need not fear the boil weeyif. He
will be blessing, not q curse. ~. 4
The next speaker introduced was
Mr.. Roland Turner, general agriculf
turaI agent Of the, Southern Railroad
Development Board. Mr.. Turner made
q Captivating speech, the, facts as
gathered by The Times man briefly
summarized are: = ~
/. The trouble has grown out Of the
fact that we have bought elsewhere
the necessities, paying more for them
than we could produce them for. This
bad economic condition must not be.
Our people are great people, but we
are behind inS agricultural develop
HSht- Lie oouIh iiitfoN SSt UPON d uet-
ter economic basis. The boil weev,il
is going to teach us better than all
the speech You will not be
convinced by the speaking. You will
have to pay attention to the boil weea
vii People will not believe; never
have believed in any county where the
weevil was just entering. The South
; is getting ready to accept the PROPOSE
tion that the South must get upon. an
entirely different economical basis.
Z The present need in Union county
for the farmer and the general puolic
is some way or means by which the
s.aefage farmer may get cash for some
product Of the farm, cash to run on.
You will then have served the great
est need. Sell some cream, feed the
clabber; sell few eggs and fryers,
and get money to buy the backband,
trace chain, plows and other needed
implements of the farm.
building up of the lands: How are you
going to improve the lands We can't
build up the lands under the present
system. We. must rotate. We must
plant legumes.: Union county should
adopt the policy OF selling from the
farm only the finished product. Don't
sell oats, hay, corn, peas. These should
he kept for YOUR own use on the farm.
We are under no, moral obligation to
cloths the world at less than the cost
of production. The farms of Union
county should be self sustaining. The
boil weeyil is going to help them to
become self
After the speech by Mr.. Turner Mr..
l.. j. Browning was called upon, and
made q speech endorsing the. speeches
alteadY made. sGHe said his study of
the question and his recent opportun-
ity to see cotton grown under boil Vice.
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