Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-07-13
Boil weevil Control.
Note.

odS known today to ana ADVISED D.
the government-it is a complete boil
weevil control to date .NTo control thu
weevil means prosperity to the far
mer and to business in general anc
it may mean, the saving of an indus
try which before the war gave thi:
great country of ours its credit bal
ance in trade. l have printed many
thousands of these in little one page
form for free distribution. The cot,
ton factors of Augusta are mailing
out today four Or five thousand OF
them L am printing below this matter
which I have prepared in sheet form
for distribution.
Dustins Machines.
First, busting in the bud. A weevil
killed in May or June is equivalent to
killing hundreds of weevils later on.
Make small six or eight pound bag,
and attach wooden handle and sew
cheese cloth for the bags bottom,
giving it a diameter of about ten
inches-the same diameter as the
plant. Put in bag one-half pound of
Calcium Arsenate and flip bag over
plant as walking down the row. Use
cheese cloth bag only when dew is on
the plant, best time is five to seven
a. m.
Second, for busting later on, the
big plants, for poisoning the dew
which serves the weevil for drink.
Dust at night. After hard rain
(Which washes off poison) dust again.
For one-horse farmer use "Spring-
field" standard hand gun, price SIS.
For the larger farmer use 'Iron Age
Cotton Dusters," two wheeled, cart
type, dusting rows and with slight
est breeze blowing dusting five rows
at time, using two mules and one
man, busting about twenty-five acres
a night and thoroughly reliable. Cal
cium Arsenate is so cheap and the
Iron Age does such rapid work, that
many people dust the weevil with this
machine just as soon as squares ap-
pear. Every man planting thirty acres
of cotton or more should have an
Iron Age dusting machine. 1t does
the work far better than hand ma
chine can possibly do and its rapidity
makes it a matter of greatest econo-
my. The machine is fifty dollars
cheaper than last year. The present
price is S275 without light f. o. b.
Savannah.
Dusting.
busting the plant must be made
by night and only on the dew
wet plant. One pound of Calcium
Arsenate for busting the bud should
cover about one acre. For dusting the
large plant it requires for each dust
ing about FIVE pounds per acre. Two
may be necessary Tor
dusting the bud; about three appllca-
tions may be indicated for dusting
the large plant-beginning very late
in June and ending about August the
10th. Begin this later dusting when
the squares show ten per cent infec-
ton. Try to keep your field infection
down to fifteen per cent. Possibly
200 pound Darrell of Calcium Arsen-
ate would take care of about six
acres with bud busting and about
eight acres without bud dusting.
The Infected Squares.
The infected squares contain one
or more weevil worms. An infected
square remains on the cotton plant
about eleven days and then falls to
the ground, and eleven days later
from the fallen square emerges the
new born weevil. Pick up and burn
twice week all infected squares on
the ground, using Boil Weevil De-
stroyer (price s1.25 postpai1, an
iron stick with prongs which spear
the square and does the work of three
or four men. Where labor is plentiful
use not only the Boil Weevil De-
.stroyer on fallen squares, but go also
through the field, bending the plants
and picking off from same all the IN
fected squares-these look dead and
pale and not green.
Cultivate.
Cultivate all cotton rows after
-weevils infest squares twice week
with sweep. BY no means ever lay
by your cotton but keep up cultlva-
tion twice week until August. In
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