The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-07-20

squares. Whenever you see several
squares beneath stalk in a field
which has been poisoned, do what I |
call ring poisoning" that ID to say
place poison on all stalks within an
imaginary circle that arc five feet
distant from the stalk under when
you lind the squares. This will obyi- |
ate the necessity of, going over the
chtire iield to cover a few isolated |
squots where there may be a weeyil |
operating The ring poisoning" will
get the weevil operating in that par
ticular locality without fail.
"Of course, you must ,pick up the |
squares and burn them. This should |
be done all Of the time and farmers
who neglect to do this are in for a |
great deal Of trouble when the weevils
are hatchcd out. When the cotton is
up about knee high and there is a |
large bush instead Of a very small |
stalk, have plan Of poisoning
through a lguano horn. take a regu-
lation horn and put a wooden stopper
- 'iiS Siio vi IL anu through the
wooden stopper drill a small hole
about half the size Of a lead pencil.
pour the guano horn full of mo-
lasseS, with the calcium arsenatc So
luton, and it pours out on the cot
ton in small stream. Sometimes the
molasses doesn't flow as it should, so
have stick with a mop on the end
OF 1t which fits snugly in the horn
like a staff, or plungcr, fits into a pop
gun. This forces the molasses to pour
out when there is any tendency to clog
in the horn. The advantage of this
method Is that there is a little stream
OF molasscs going on both sides of
the cotton and across the top of the
stalk or the bud A man can go down
the row with this guano horn almost
as fast as distributing guano. | know
1t is difficult to explain this guano
horn method so | am going to leave
1t with you and any farmers who wish
to see it can come to The Chronicle
Office.
''''u1 All SollS OIL tcStS OH
lhis Doll wccvi poisoning. For in
stance, last year in field | plowcd
up all except the each twentieth row
IN lcld Of cotton. | waited then
for Two or three days until the leaves
were dead and then applied molas-
es and calcium arsenate to the re-
naming rows. All Of the wccvils had
lcft the cotton which was plowcd nm
and concentrated on the REMAINING
rows placed paper under the
stalks on each twentieth rows and
the boil wccvls the next day were
dead in such quantities as to remind
you of flies on by paper.
You ask me about poisoning every
olhcr row, Or every third row. Yes,
YOU can do this and get the wccvtls. |
but the cost Of the poisoning is SO |
small that one can poison cvery row
without any great expense My for |
muia, which Is two pounds Of calcium
aiscnatc to two quarts OF water and |
gallon Of molaSscs, will poison two
ana half cres q cost of - cents |
or bout 20 cents per acre The cal
cum costs 10 cents per pound and |
lEe molasScS, % cents per gallon. or |
course, it takes little more of the |
uoison when the cotton gets 10 big
ger ana you use the poison in the
guano horn.
My Judgment is that two thor
oush poisonings in season plus the
ring poisonings" should be enough. |
though conditions May demand more. |
or course, hard rains will wash the
poison of, though it should get in its |
work in - hours IN other words,
if it doesn't rain within "a hours af-
ter the application. the wcevils should |
be dead. do not contend that |
every wccvil in field Of cotton will |
be killed by one application. Now and |
tEon YOU miss one and that is why |
you should watch closely and be
ready for ring poisoning"
The guuno horn was left at The
Chronicle office by Nh. Hill and we
shall be glad to show it to any farm
CT desiring to see it, and The Chron-
iclc again rcncw3 its invitation to
farmers to write us OF their expert
mcnts in lighting the wcevl