The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-04-26
DOTE DISCUSSES SITUATION
FOOLS THE BOIL WEEVII

Deer eddltOral-aS the munC is
bout out and i has not rit you a letar
in sum time i sect myself tonite at
NV MULTI stand on S. name streat
to tell you a few pints bout the sit
teration.
the boil weavuls is already here
and the flies is cummin; the later
bugs in on the taters and the musk
eetars air gittin there bills sharped
to bite; the fees is GROWN on the
dogs and grass is cummin up; but
the wust sine j sea of trubble is the
polertishuns cummin out. The bole
weavul may eat up the cotton and
the flies may Spite the ~vittals; the
later bugs may stroy the taters and
the m%uskeeters bite yore ankle; the
fees may git in the bed wifi you at
mite when it is hot and crawl a little
and the grass may eet up the corn;
but what is to be feered is that the
pollertishuns will tell the truth on
eech luther, in which case it will be
wuss then if they tole a ly.
I sea that they has cort a still on
the plais what Jim Tullis has rented
and that Jim and friend Self has been
in the jug but Jim got out and left
Self in. we'll, that is whar jim made
a mistake if he war in it, bekos he
, shood kno that Self will tell the
whole tail and a little more if he
think Jim dun gone back on him. the
rool is that if you 60 inter partner
ship with a man in eether merchan-
die, %coco-cola, or Ticker, is to take it
equl and bare yore part. mind you
i doc not say that Jim and Self has
made emmy Ticker, or is in it; if they
made emmy all i can say is that they
has bin a little stingy wifi it on
South name where it is badly needed.
But a cirkumstants not menshuned
in yore papar bout the whole cirkum-
!furnts is that the day they kort Jim
and self and the still is that Col. Cor.
dan White kort corp. Kerr, Of the
dutch Kalone, plantin out a mint bed,
which do not say that the corp. wal
in the still but he war gittin reddy
to git in it, it seam to NEE.
i want to git up town sattidy mite
to sine up on the cotton co-opera.
ton. j think now that i will maik bout
a bail on sixtean akers and may bee
too bales if the bole weevuls don't
find my krap too soon. j has tride a
new dodge on the weevuls. all the
paipers has bin tellin how to man.
nidge the bole weavil, and a good
menny plans has bin started but none
Of them hits the male on the he'd" the
thing to doc is to fool the weavil.
that is my game. so j is goner plant
bout six akers in cotan on the same
ole field and not wurk it mulch, but
to maik the bole weevuls think this
is my krap. but the biggest end of
my krap i is goner plant down on
long kane on a nue. ground what i
cleered up this winter. the bole wee
vii has newer bin in that naburhood,
and he doc not even kno that emmy
cotan is to be there this yeer. the
feeld is surrounded by the creak and
pine woods and j think i kin git the
crop made and gethered befoar the
boil weevil git wise. j has not pat
tented the plan and if allen Mer-
kantie want to try the same gain on
the weevil he kin 60 too it. but allen
will halter doc like nee. I go to the
field befoar day while the weevul is
still sleep and don't KUN hoam till
arter dark, so that he never sea me
goin nur cummin, and i walk back
wards goin to the feeld so the bole
weevul kinnot track me. l think i
got him fooled so fur and if nuthin
happens as i say i may have as
mulch as two bales to put in the CO.
operation; but i done give it in to
my leen as six bales, and gin a mort
gage on the crop and plan to fool the
weevil to boot, which will keap the
rashuns cummin till i kin git a little
ahed in the fish bizness, then if