The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-06-24
SUGGESTS CITIZENS MEETING
COMPLETE PLANS ON FIGHT
j. n Provine Sounds Boil Weevil Alarm and Tells How to Kill
Pest. Says Crop Must Be Picked Row by Row And At
Once if Grenada County Wants Any Cotton Yield.
Editor Sentinel:

Editor Sentinel:
/ have been asked by numerous
persons to give the public the benefit
of my experience in fighting the boil
weevil. While l feel it a duty to
comply with these requests, yet
must confess that ] feel a sort of deli
cacy in making the attempt for the
reason that it is a question that has
seemingly confOunded our farmers.
Undeniably the presence of the boil
weevil has had most deleteriOus eff
fleet on all lines of business in the
cotton belt.
We said when we were fighting the
Germans that the enemy was trying
to get to our own gates. The bob
weevil is here; ne is on the business
of every farmer and every other
BUSINESS in this section. The weevil
is here in greater quantities perhaps
than ever before. The cotton crop is
late, and it has an opportunity that
it perhaps never had before. Shall
we sit idly and say, nothing can be
done, or shall we, like true Ameri-
cans, say that I'VE will whip" If
we do not whip the weevil, then we
are whipped. Which shall it be, Mr.
Farmer?
The question of fighting the wee
vii has been aired on the stump and
has been ably treated by the most
efficient experts that money could
obtain. These experts have given the
boil weevil years of study; they have
labored to find a remedy that would
hn Off A.
They succeeded, and, in Justice to
ourselves and for the sake of our
homes, we should seek to know the
remedy and then put it into use.
feel it a duty to tell in my own feeble
way what | think of it, and to try TO
get others to go to the great store
house of knowledge for the remedy.
| especially have in mind our own
A. & NJ. College which institution has
bulletins that were prepared by ex-
perts at Washington City and other
places. These bulletins tell the story
and they can be had free.
The bulletin on boil weevil tolls
how to go up and down the cotton
rows and pick the weevil and either
crush him between the fingers or drop
him into bottle filled with coal oil
O. some other deadly substances. Let
the squares be watcLed with the
greatest care, and it would be best
at this stage to pick the very young
squares and then make it all the
moIe certain that the weevil is got.
Pick the weevil, 7 repeat and pick
him NOW. Don't be led astray by
substitutes which were intended as
mere helps. There are some things
that are effective in the way of pois-
ons, but they are too costly for the
ordinary farmer. Amy farmer can
pick the weevil, but there are very
few farmers now able to buy the
poisons which will cost perhaps $25.
per acre to kill the weevil.
There can be no doubt about pick
ing the weevil so that we can make
a good crop. The Government says
it can be done; practical farmers say
that it can be done; DR.. E. r. Lloyd,
now of Memphis, where he is being
pcid salary Of $6,000.00 per year
t. advise the business men of that
city as to farming and aiding the live
stock and farming interests of the
country, says it can be done and /
say it can be done for the reason that