The log cabin Democrat., 1921-06-11

l fective in checking weevil only on hil! land.
 Aroused by dispatch from Con- way that weevils have been found this early on the Arkansas river. H. M. Cottrell, agriculturist for the Little Rock chamber of commerce, published In today's Gazette an appeal for mer- chants and bankers to get together with farmers and take measures which will prevent infestation of boil weevil Arkansas has known. MT. Cottrell suggests that farmers push the early formation of bolls before July 15 so that a crop can be made despite the linfestation.
 The first weevils were brought here Thursday by c. c. Green from the /, Ledbetter farm on the river. Today Frank Raney brought in about 50 more from the Providence neighbor- hood. Mir, Raney said that four to the stalk is the rule and that he easily picked up 50 from a half acre field. Around Mayflower Wiley Mosley said that weevils have been found in numbers. MT. Mosley also said that the plan of cutting off infested squares is successful. Last year field of ten acres owned by him was made to produce II 1-2 bales of cotton, while an adjacent field of 25a acres where the weevil was not fought, pro- duced five bales. In following this plan the cotton is closely cultivated and all squares found punctured are at once cut from the stalk.
 Of the weevils found on the Green place and the danger which threatens Arkansas, Mir. Cottrell has the fol lowing to say:
 "These are old weevils that have survived the winter Last winter was unusually favorable for the weevil and many times the usual number lived through and are ready to start the new broods.
 Should we have wet weather in
 he latter half of June and July, these probably will be one of the worst infestations of boil weevil ever known in Arkansas.
 "There is only one way to produce a good crop of cotton under such con ditions That is to push the growtf and to get enough bolls formed ant hard before July 15 to make crop Then if the growth is pushed for tht next 30 days, new squares and boil! will keep forming. The weevil vii prefer the fresh growth to the frs form bolls and will destroy the new squares and bolls and let the oldel ones make a crop.
 "The thing to do now in ever! part of Arkansas where there is dan ger from boil weevil is to push thu growth to the limit and keep thu plants growing without check unti the middle or last of August.
 "It takes two things to do this One is constant, thorough shailov cultivation. The crop should be wei : cultivated every five to seven days
 and fertilizer that will push the earl, . formation of squares and bolls.
 "The boil weevil last year dit
 more damage to cotton in Bradle,
 county than ever before. Sam Me
 Leod, a farmer of that county, select
 ed a large field and planted the sam
 kind of seed on all of it at the sam
 time and gave all of it the sam
 thorough cultivation. He put fertllize on half the field. He raised a | average of one and a quarter bales t
 the acre on the fertilized half an
 did not pick the other half becaus
 there was no cotton to pick. Tn
 boil weevil utterly destroyed the cro
 on the land not fertiized. Tn
 fertilizer forced a crop ahead of tn
 weevil. This is only one case out O
 a thousand last year where fertillze
 a thousand last year where fertilize S cotton made a good yield in sout I Arkansas in spite of the weevil.
 Cotton growers, bankers and men
 chants do not need to be told what 0 dire disaster it would be to the pee
 ple of this state if the boil weev
 l-11 lo~+,,ox, tho cotton crOO as