The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-07-26

ton shows that it is perfectly feasible
to do this very thing.
We are not going to get perfect boil
weevil control anywhere this season
because in no section have all the
farmers poisoned their crops and
picked up squares, nor will we prob
ably get weevil control to the highest
degree in any season, even in sections
where the molasses poison is used IN
time and frequently, unless the far
mers are vigilant in finding the spots
where the few weevils who have
probably escaped the poison are lay
ing in the squares.
1 firmly believe, however,, that
when every farmer in the state pois-
ons his cotton before squares are
formed and continues this treatment
often enough to keep the poison On
the cotton until the last of June and
where he continues vigilant il detect
ing and picking up the few punctured
squares that the occasional un-
poisoned weevil will lay, we will have
a method of control which will pro-
tect the whole cotton crop until late
in the season and allow normal crops
of early planted early varieties to
mature.
In order to secure the universal
adoption of an agricultural practice it
is only necessary to convince all the
farmers that the practice is profitable.
The use of the Williamson plan of
cultivating corn ve!'y quickly became
universal in this section because its
benefits were so manifest that even
the powerful opposition of many Gov
ernment exeprts and agricultural ad-
visers could not stop its spread. The
use of fertilizers is universal in the
eastern part of the belt.
The general adoption of some meth
Cd OF boil weevil control at once
cheap, simple and practical enough to
come within the means and appeal to
the common sense of every farmer
should be much easier than either the
Williamson plan or the use of feru-
lizer, because every farmer has direct
and vital interest in preventing his
neighbors from raising weevls
which will destroy his own top crop
and thus will use his influence to see
that his ne;ghbors use control meth
DDS.
I am in hearty concurrence With
Clemson College and the Government
in their advice to plant early, use
early varieties, use acid phosphate,
cultivate rapidly, pick up squares and
destroy the old stalks some time be-
fore frost. I must continue, how
ever, to advise the use of a control
method which has carried up to July
Is with practically no damage those
tcrops to which it had been applied be-
fore squares formed and which has
carried our own crops Originally
badly infested) up to the same date
with much less than 5 per cent infes-
tation although the first application
was not made until many of the first
squares had been punctured.
1t should be noted that in this sec
ton we have had only one period
(from June to June 18) which was
favorable for boil weevil control. The
balance Of the growing season has
been showry with many heavy rains
making control methods extremely
difficult and more expensive than
normal. The total rainfall at Harts-
vile from Jan. to date has been
39.7. The May rainfall (Which most
ly fell during the latter half of the
llollluJ was 100, y u!lS, i.i3 diiC
July Cup to and including 14th inst.)
$50.
I have great respect fer the worl
of Clemson College. lis President
OiIector-of Extension and many o., it:
professors are personal friends. H.
'csard 10 boil weev:l control. how
-ver, 1 must accent the evidence Q
l:y own eyes and that Of NY own eX
.erimental organization AID OF rel
able farmers in this section who arc
ilso my personal friends.
(Signed) DAVID L. COKi2R.
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