The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-11-10

Will cause them to die before 1roSt.
The carrying out of this suggestion
at once is imperative and every effort
should be made to induce every farm
er in the state to do this work at once,
for, if only a few do it, it will have
little effect in reducing next years
weevil supply.
Second-During the fall and winter
destroy all cover in which weevils
may be hiding, burning ditch banks
and margins of woods and cleaning
up around stumps. Fodder and hay
stacks should not be allowed to le-
main near cotton fields.
Third-Cotton should be literally
fertilized with quick acting fertilizer
containing about so lbs. of available
phosphoric acid per acre, ammonia
and potash to be used according to
tine character and relative fertility of
the soil. All applications of ammonia
should be put down before 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 en-
courages overgrowth of stalk.
Fourth-Early planting of approved
varieties of cotton with plenty of
seed. The farmer should save at least
bushels of good seed for each acre
he is going to plant. He should plant
at least two bushels before April 1st
in the lower half OF the state and be-
fore April 10th in the upper half of
the state reserving a bushel per acre.
If q stand is not secured by the first
planting he should plant over not
later than April 10th in the lower half
or April goth in the upper half. If
large quantities of seed are used good
stands are usually secured from ex-
ira early planting and the experience
is that under boil weevil conditions
the greatest crops are always made
from the earliest paintings. If stands
are not secured at comparatively
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 va
ry with the height of the natural
growth of the plant, 8" or 4" not be-
ing too close as . minimum and 8"
or 10" as a 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 proper time and under favor
able conditions. Heavy damage from
plant lice following dusting with cal
cium arsenate early last August
makes US doubtful as to it's treatment
when applied at that time. The wee
wills should also be picked from the
plant in the early stages and rs soon
as punctured squares are noticed they
should be picked up twice a week un-
til midsummer. Rapid and thorough
cultivation at all times should be en-
ployed and the crop should be gather
ed as fast as open to insure a high
grade. In no case should more cotton
be planted than can be properly han
died at all stages and promptly pick
ed by the labor on the farm, for it is
tine height of folly to plant crop
and let the boil weevil eat it up for
lack of attention or allow it to become
blue in the fields f. 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 if the amounts
applied varied much, either above or
below this standard, the crops were
less profitable.
Everywhere it must be insisted on
that the individual farmer and tenant
raise an alb lndant supply of food and
feed and that this food and feed be
properly conserved. The man with
crib full of corn and hay, q smoke
house full of meat and molasses,
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes in
storage house, and garden full
of vegetables cannot be put out of
business by the boil weevil or any
other pest.
Storage houses for keeping sweet
potatoes should be everywhere con-
structed as this is one Of the greatest
crops We have and one which every
farmer can raise.