The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-10-12
BEGIN FIGHTING WEEVlL
NOW BY DESTROYING
COTTON STALKS
is about ah
- thai
AS the cotton crop

gathered, 1t is very importan.
every farmer, especially those who
intend planting cotton next wear.
should rush through the picking and
destroy all stalks at once.
If the stalks are left until after
iroSt there will be but little use to
destroy them before January or Feb.
ruafy' as all weevil will hunt winter
quarters as soon as frost falls. Kill
the stalks before frost and Won w;,,
Kill the weevil.
various methods can be used to
destroy these stalks. Where stalLs
are small they can be ripped up with
an ordinary one-horse plow bu+
Wnere they have made rank growth
IL VIII be best to use disk harrow
running down rows, and follow with
Plow' ripping them up. Where tr,c-
Tor and double disc are avaiIable
mat Is the best method. The ide. of
destroying the stalks early is to stop
inc growth, hence stop the BREEDING
VI late crop of weevls, as the last
crop Matched out are the ones that
90 into winter quarters.
While these stalks are be;na d.
stroyed every acre where cotton was
grown should be seeded to some kind
VI WINTER cover crop of rye, rye and
Netch, oats and vetch or oats alone
AS Vetch seed are unusually high this
IAN l would suggest that every
iarmer seed at least one acre to rye
ana VeIch or oats and vetch in order
20 raise his own seed. Every farmer
should grow enough rye and oats for
his own seed.
TWO farmers near Chesterfield.
MeSSrs. G.. r. Spencer and Luther
lherrelI, planted not over three acres
OF abruzzi rye each and made from
% TO 10 bushels. They have sold
what they did not need at $500 per
Dushel, making of it pretty fair
money crop.
Some say it won't sell. Let's see.
During the fall of 1921, as county
agent. l secured for farms in this
county something over four car loads
OF rye, vetch, oats and crimson Glow
er. That was worth about $4,000.
Equally as much was handled by 9TH
er people.
One bushel of rye to the acre will
give the old COW something green to
eat and add to the soil from four to
ten pounds of humuS to each acre.
one bushel of rye and 20 pounds of
vetch seed per acre will add the same
amount of humus and in addition will
store In the soil nitrogen that will
equal 400 pounds nitrate of soda or
OOO pounds cotton seed meal.
Can you afford to buy commercial
fertilizer when you can do this at
such low cost? Vetch is not too
hlgh at 30 cents per pound.
The soil is in good condition now
and every farmer should seed as
| many acres to cover crops as he can.
You can buy Carolina and Rozen
| rye Tor $l.5O to $l.60 per bushel;
aoruZZi rye from $1.75 to $500;
Vetch seed around 1s to 20 cents per
pound. / will be glad to secure seed
Tor you where you make up cooper
ative shipments and save you money.
but cannot handle seed of any kind
| in small lots.
Let each community get together
and make up its cooperative ship
ments of all kinds of seed and / will
help you place them to advantage.
You can get the same advantage
by making up your shipments and
taking it up with your local merch-
ant. They will be glad to do this for
you. Call a meeting in your COM
munlty at once and make up your
shipment, designating some one of
your number to have the seed ship
ped to The seed houses will ship in
individual packages, but to one adj
dress in bulk.
Every farmer should have Exten-
SION Bulletin No. As, Farming Un-
der Boil Wccvil Conditions,"; Farm
crS' Bulletin No. 1862, "The Boil
Wecvil Problem; also Extension Cir
cular No. 40, Crop Rotation for
Eastern and Southern Counties" 1
have supply of these on hand and
VIII be glad to mail them out on re-
| quest.
W. j. TILLER,