The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-11
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wind and downpour of rain Tuesday
at noon and rguess "that settles it"
with the farmer and boil weevil. Quite !
e number of farmers were sail tryisg
to get up squares and small bolls,
wir'ch Were beginning to drop by the
bucket full this week; at least, to try
to check the spread and now this rain
wall put many squares where they
canrot be seen. II will open the flood. |
gates to the weevil. The weevils were
getting to be about the toughest nut
for the farmers wits to bite on any.
~ Squares with many injured tiny
bolls, probably injured by puncturea
in almost open blooms, are droppin:
SO fast that it is irnnessihle to keep
up with them, and Me were losing
time and money,at it, 1helieye, Some
coFt"2 IS y'et comparatively young and
do noC Sc much chance for it now,
[ have been in the field bucking
against them almost without let-up
for nearly four weeks and despite
this vigilance they are increasing. II
have had lot of practice that the
ory can hardly stand against. I have
seen things that l have never seen
writ nor heard spoken by anyone
and want to gather some squares,
blooms and bolls and show some time
soon. On one field three fourth of the
squares on the stalks are already
punctured and they have not begun
to show sickness. This is now the
condition here. l don't think 1 ought
to be "lawed" into paying ones sal
airy next year, to tell me how to make
cotton with boil weevils. / wish l
didn't have to do so this year. 1t is
like putting salt in fresh cut. Who
conceived that nonsense-not to put
it stronger-anyway.
Almost everyone around here went
to Union for the state campaign
meeting on the 5th, and speaks of it
ee:ng good meeting. I did not go.
4 had a chance to get three extra
mules and hands and seized this op-
portunity to put them in the bottoms
blowing young corn. While I wanted
to go, think I got paid better at the
bargain that I did Saturday. 1t is
enjoyable to listen to the women vot-
ers talk about the speaking, and the
tinge of disgust they throw in when
they tell of the familiarity some
heap-John looking fellow speaks of
Ccley." That reminds rc, that l
on't think any worth while woman
fere would think of voting for Bease.
Let me- be plain, don't care how
anyone else stands, but if l was capa-
tlc. and could, offer up a prayer, 1t
: oui: rot be that any special men be
ciectea, but it would be that Cole
Blease will not be, for am q South
Carolinian, and-live in Union county.
went up to Mon-Aetna church on
Sunday afternoon, where there was
meeting trying to get a countrywide
B. Y. P. u. association. I have out
grown that .-sO,st of organization-
passed the limitation-but am we'll
wisher, and hoped to enjoy the pro-
cacdings, and did, to the fullest.
net quite number of friends from |
other churches, and of course tn ere
are friends at Mona etna, and they
always make me feel glad when | 60
there. l feel that was greatly bene-
ttad. Quite large representation
from the Baptist church (Salem) here
was there. They are trying to have
q good union here. After the exer-
cises closed, Mr.. Eads, member there
and fine Sunday school worker,
showed us through the new addition,
the Sunday school rooms, and they
are just-appetizing if I may use the
expression, and it is no wonder they
are proud Of their building. I am,
myself.
Your scribe has been "put to his |
trumps" with muskrats cutting corr
My corn was late and before it was
four inches high they began to cut
it, and it seemed as if there was going
to be total destruction, so I deter
mined to dig out all burrows even to
the extent of annihilating the entire
= icCh pdlho, ~ Jug, anu ClEe" IL
out in the bottoms, and into the creek,
and made on-inhabitable five dens-
I'll on that section of bottoms, but
think they had some on my neighbor's
bottoms and would come up from that.
Then l tried poisoning. Knowing its
hoggishness for peaches, l Clipped
some up, put that on scraps of paper
and then put on arsenate of lead. |
They ate several bats, and now they
have rot cut any in about a week
Muskrat furs are valuable, but I de-
not use them, but I do use corn, and
so | will not hesitate to poison rats,
ii no other way works. If you are
bothered, try this.
1t is no use for anyone to tell |
me, even though he is held up as an
expert, that if you plant cotton quite
a distance from where cotton was last !
season that the boil weevill will not
bother it much until August, when
they begin to migrate. I know a man