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at that time. The weevils should also
be picked from the plant in the early
stages and as soon as punctured
squares are noticed they should be
picked up twice per week until mid
summer. Rapid and thorough cultlva-
ton at all times should be employed
and the crop should be gathered as
fast as open to insure high grade.
In no case should more cotton be
painted than can be properly handled
at all stages and promptly picked by
the labor on the farm, for it is the
height of folly to plant crop and
let the boil weevil eat it up for lack
| of attention or allow it to become
blue in the fields for lack of picking
force.
The experience of many of our best
farmers and numerous experiments
conducted under the auspices of the
experiment stations prove that it is
absolutely essential in almost all sec
tions to use around 800 pounds per
acre of acid phosphate under cotton.
In most cases if the amounts applied
varied much, either above or below
this standard, the crops were less
profitable. .
Everywhere it must be insisted on
that the individual farmer and tenant
raise an abundant supply of food and
feed and that this food and feed be
properly conserved. The man with a
crib full of corn and hay, a smoke
house full of meat and molasses,
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes in
a storage house, and a garden full of
vegetables can not be put out of busi-
| ness by the boil weevil or any other
pest.
Storage houses for keeping sweet
!potatoes should be everywhere con-
structed as this is one of the great
est crops we have and one which
every farmer can raise. Some spe-
cial suggestions are:
Piedmont Region.
Cotton production in this section is
safer than in the lower sections and
will continue to be profitable on av-
erage years, provided due care is ex-
ercised in meeting weevil conditions.
The acreage should be strictly limited
to an amount which can be perfectly
handled by the available labor. Am
pie foodstuffs, including corn, peas,
velvet beans, potatoes, sorghum,
wheat, oats, etc., should be grown.
A suggested division of acreage for
80 acre farm has been made by one
of the most successful planters in the
Piedmont and may be found useful.
although of course it should be modi-
fed to meet individual needs. Ten
acres of cotton, six acres of corn with
peas or velvet beans, eight acres in
wheat and oats, followed by pea vines
beans and Lookout Mountain pota-
toes, one acre Of sweet potatoes, two
acres of alfalfa, three, acres of
sorghum-total 80 acres. An ample
number of hogs and a few cattle
should be carried on this farm and
for these permanent Bermuda
pasturage should be provided. It
would be well to increase the per-
centage of corn on farm of this size
unless the land is very fertile. Thirty
acres is usually an awkard size for a
farm as it is too large for one horse
and not large enough for two. The
relative proportion Of different crops
however, may be observed, no matter
what the size of the farm until.
Expects Available.
In every county the farmers should
utilize fully the government farm ex-
perts. No one can advise intelligent
ly and correctly just what each in
dividual farmer should do. The dem
onstration agent, however, can tell
you exactly what to do, for he knows
your conditions and has available all
/ the necessary information to advise
you upon each detail.
A most important factor for sue
cess under boil weevil conditions is
hard and intelligent work. The slip
shod farmer will be out of business