Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-11-09

once, for, if only few do it, it will
have little effect in reducing next
years weevil supply.
Second. During the fall and win
ter destroy all cover in which Wee
wills may be hiding, burning ditch
banks and margins of woods and
clearing up around stumps. Fodder
and hay stacks should not be allowed
to remain near cotton fields.
Use of Fertilizer.
Third. Cotton should be literally
fertilized with quick acting fertil-
izer containing about so pounds of
available phosphoric acid per acre,
ammonia and potash to be used ac-
cor6ing to the character and relative
fertility of the soil. All applications
of ammonia should be put down be-
fore the middle of June. Over doses
of potash have a tendency to delay
maturity. Where the weed grows tall
only a small amount of ammonia
should be used as it: always delays
maturity and encourages overgrowth
of stalk.
Fourth. Early planting of approved
varieties of cotton with plenty of
seed. The farmer should save at least
bushels of good seel for each acre
he is going to plant. He should plant
It least two bushels before April 1
in the lower half of the state and be-
fore April 10 in the upper half of the
state reserving a bushel per acre. If
stand is not secured by the first
planting he should plant over not
later than April 10 in the lower half
or April 20 in the upper half. If large
quantities of seed are used good
stands are usually secured from ex-
ira early paintings and the expert
ence is that under boil weevil condi-
tions the greatest crops are always
made fl ON the earliest paintings. If
stands are not secured at compare
lively early stage the land intended
for cotton should be put into other
crops.
Fifth. Cotton should be left thick
in the drill. This distance should vary
with the height of the natural growth
of the plant, three inches or four
inches not being too close as mini
mum and eight inches or ten inches
as maximum.
Sixth. The question of poisoning
for boil weevil is still in the expert
mental state, but your committee be-
lieves that poisoning with calcium
arsenate is valuable, especially if
done at the prepor time and under
favorable conditions.
Doubtful as to Time.
Heavy damage from plant lice fol-
lowing dusting with calcium arsen-
ate early last August makes us doubt
full as to the treatment when applied
at the 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 cultivation at all
times should be employed and the
crop should be gathered as fast as
open to insure a high grade. In no
case should more cotton be planted
than can be properly handled at all
stages and promptly picked by the Ia
Dor on the farm, for it is the height
of folly to plant crop and let the
boil weevil eat it up for lack of at
tention or allow it to become blue in
the fields for lack of picking force.
The experience of many of our
best farmers and numerous expert
ments conducted under the auspices
of the experiment stations prove that
it is absolutely essential in almost
all sections to use around 800 pounds
per acre of acid phosphate under cot
ton. In most cases of the amounts ap-
piled varied much, either above or
below this standard the crops were
less profitable.
Everywhere it must be insisted on
that the individual farmer and ten
ant raise an abundant supply of food
and feed and that this food and feed
be properly conserved. The man with
crib full of corn and hay, a smoke
house full of meat and molasses, a
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes in
storage house and garden full OF
vegetables can not be put out Of bus