Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-27
NT|-WEEV|L CLINIC
At ARLINGTON, CA.

ARLINGTON. Ca. June 24.-De-
tails have been perfected for an
anti-bol1 weevil demonstration which
will be conducted on the J. S. Cowan
farm, near this city, on Tuesday,
June q, under the direction Of DR..
r. J. II. DeLoach, former director
Of the Georgia experiment station
at Griffin. The meeting will be
attended by j. j. Brown, state COM
missioner Of agriculture: representa-
tives Of the state board of entomol-
ogy: agricultural agents of various
railways; farmers; newspaper men,,
and others interested in the solu-
ton Of the problem of producing
cotton under boil weevil conditions.
DR.. DeLoach has made an ex-
haustive study Of the boil weevil
and conditions incident to it's inva-
sions of new territory. It is his
intention to show just what action
should be taken during the first
Matching period and to illustrate
progress that has been made in 9TH
er states where cotton is being pro-
duced despite the ravages of the
pest.
The Cowan farm is a group of
smaller farms including 5000 acres,
on which Seventy-two tenants have
been operating under scientific in
structions. The farm is ten miles
no hoC
portunity for conducting investiga-
lions. The method advocated by
DIR. DeLoach includes the use of
calcium arsenate, improved culture,
reasonably heavy fertilization and
select seed, with a slightly reduced
acreage. Experts are expected to be
present from other states, as the
meeting is conceded to be of prime
Importance to southern farmers.
In discussing the Arlington meet
ing with newspaper representa-
1--WE, DIR. DeI4oach said:
1.-THE question IS frequently asked.
II farmers are not growing cotton
in Texas and Louisiana Just as they
did before the weevil made his ap-
pearance. and will we, who are
farther east, not be doing the same
thing very shortly?
They are growing some cotton
farther west, but not just as they
used to. Neither can we farther
east ever expect to grow cotton as
we once did. The weeviI has i'm
posed new conditions on us and we
must accept these conditions or
conditions make cotton growing
Improbable?
The demonstrations we are now
making on the J. S. Cowart farm
at Arlington is proving ON a COM
merclal scale that cotton can be
grown successfully and economical
ly under boil weevil conditions.
FARMERS farther north still have
tlme to equip farms with fighting
materials. such as calcium arsenate
poisoning, machinery for putting
this on top dressing Ct cotton witt:
quickly available plant food, and
rapid and constant cultivation. One
other thing seems to us to reassure
| a degree of optimism, more faith in
ourselves as cotton farmers, and in
our tenants. The Georgia farmer
can outWit TIE weeVil, but he must
reorganize the few things mention.
ed above as being absolute necessi-
ties, and he must do these things
and do them right. Our own fight
thus far has been successful, and
now at the beginning of the first
Matching of eggs this season, we
are preparing to strike a death blow
to these young Weevils.
The meeting Tuesday is held at
this particular time by special re-
quest, in order for a number of
people to see how we handle the
negro labor under average farm con.
dltions in the cotton belt. Farther
west of us only those farmers are
growing cotton now under weevil
conditions who were willing to in
augurate new methods, and it is GER
tain that those of us who are farther
east will succeed only in proper
tlon to cur proper use of the best
known methods approved by the
ment?"