The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-07-07

is to say, place poison on all stalks
within an imaginary circle that are
five feet distant from the stalk under
which you find the squares. This
Will obviate the necessity of going
over the entire field to cover few
isolated spots where there may be a
weevil operating. The ring poison
ing will get the weevil operating in
that 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 wee
wills are Matched out. When the cot
ton is up about knee high and there
is a large bush instead of very
small stalk, I have a plan of poison
ing through a guano horn. l take a
regulation horn and put wooden
stopper in the end of it and through
the wooden stopper I drill a small
hole, about half the size Of a lead
pencil. I pour the guano horn full
of molasses, with the calcium arse
nate solution, and it pours out on the
cotton in small stream. Sometimes
the molasses doesn't flow as it should,
so I have a stick with mop on the
end of it which fits snugly in the horn
like the staff or plunger, fits into a
pop gun. This forces the molasses to
Door out when there is any tendency
to clog in the horn. The advantage
of this method is that there is little
stream of molasses 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 it is difficult to explain this
guano horn method so am going to
leave it with you and any farmers
who wish to see it can come to The
Chronicle Office.
81 have made all sorts OF tests on
this boil weevil poisoning. For in
stance, last year in field I plowed
up all except the each twentieth row
in a field of cotton. waited then
for two or three days until the leaves
were dead and I then applied molas-
ses and calcium arsenate to the re-
naming rows. All of the WeeVlls
had left the cotton which was ploWed
up and concentrated on the remaining
rows. placed paper under the stalks
on each twentieth row and the boil
weevils the next day were dead IN
such quantities as to remind you of
flies on fly paper.
'"You ask me about poisoning every
other row, or every third row. Yes,
YOU can do this and get the weevils,
but the cost of the poisoning is so
small that one can poison every row
without any great expense. My for
mula, which is two pounds of calcium
arsenate to two quarts of water and
a gallon of molasses, will poison two
and a half acres at cost OF 25 cents
or about 20 cents per acre. The CAL
cium costs Is cents per pound ana
the molasses, 22 cents per gallon. OF
course, it takes a little more of the
poison when the cotton gets up big
ger and you use the poison in the
guano horn.
"Mv Judgment is that two thorough
noisonings in a season plus the ring
poisoaings' should be enough, though
conditions may demand more. OF
course, hard rains will wash the pols-
on off, though it should get in It's
work in "a hours. In other words
if it doesn't rain within "a hours
after the application the weevlls
should be found dead. I do not con-
tend that every weevil in a field OF
cotton will be killed by one applica-
ton. Now and then you miss one
and that is why you should watch
closely and be ready for 'ring-pols-
oning.'"
The guano horn was left at The
Chronicle Office by Mr.. Hill and we
shall be glad to show it to any farm
er desiring to see it, and The Chron-
icle again renews its invitation 10
farmers to write us of their expert
ments in fighting the weevil.-Au-
susta Chronicle, June 20.