The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-12-27
HAS A COTTON BOIL :
WEEVl REMEDY BEEN FOUND?
coTToM wANNAMAkER, OF THE AMERICAN
nv Tt,r 1%UClAiloN, REVIEWS HAVOC WROUGHT
prs,m INSECT AND TELLS OF REMARKABIE
pAcvvED rSnlEvED BY NEW REMEDY
BACKED BY STRONG AUGUSTA ~.
COTTON FIRM
american Cotton Association

ot. Mae1hews, s. c., Dec. a, 1922.
hoitor Manufacturers Record:
recently made a trip to Gouoh
Ga', for the prupose of investisating
the Hill method of boil weevil control
Your Mr.. John c. Cady was with me
on this trip.
During the last quarterof a CEN.
tury, since the boil weevil commenced
devastating the cotton crop of the
South, thousands of remedies have
been offered for the destruction of the
pest, and up to the present time moth
ing has solved the problem. The dust
Hg method Of dry calcium, the method
recommended by the Agricultural De-
partment and the various agricultural
eoieges, seems to be the most effica-
cious. However, where it has been
used under the most careful super-
vision, still there is very heavy loss
from the boil weevil, regardless of the
many applications that are applied
with the very latest machinery.
Another serious problem is the in
sufficient quantity of calcium arsenate
and the cost of about SIS per acre or
$50 per bale. If all the calcium ar
senate in the world today could be
secured for this purpose, we would
only have a sufficient quantity, as
shown by the best experts, to apply
to 100000 acres Of cotton, which is
less than one-fifth of the cotton crop.
At no time since the boil weevil first
crossed into Texas has more effort
been put forth than is being made
today to secure remedy whereby
cotton can be profitably produced un-
der boil weevil conditions, and at no
time has the entire world been more
alarmed, and justly so. over a solu-
tion of this problem.
In making this trip into Georgia,
passing through our state capital, Co
lumbia, and III noticing the names of
the various streets-Cotton street, In
digo street, Rice street-and remem-
bering that the streets of the capital
in the early days were named for the
various agricultural products raised
in those days TO furnish all the names
for the future state capital, and that
today very few of these agricultural
products are grown at all IN the state,
I could not help but ask myself the
question is cotton destined to follow
in the footsteps of indigo, rice and
other crops that have been abandoned
in South Carolina and in the South
Atlantic states?
-. passing through the former rice
plantations in the fertile coastal plain
Of South Carolina, and in viewing the
magnificent colonial mansions, con-
structed largely from costly material
imported from England and of the
hardwoods of America, the work.
manship being of the very highest
class, and these magnificent mansions
today deserted, standing as a monu-
ment to the great ante-bellum days;
and in passing through the great rice
plantations, the lands being as fertile
as the valley IF the Nile, seeing them
densely covered with a rank vegeta-
ton of bamboo, briers, shrubbery and
trees, and when I remember that
there are 100000 acres in South
Carolina that were in a high stage
of cultivation in ante-bellum days and
millions in the other Southern states,
I could not help but again ask myself
the question as to whether cotton
would follow in the footsteps Of rice.
Especially was this question present
ed to my mind when passed through
the various court house towns in the
most fertile sections of the cotton
helt, a section which passed through
in 1918 and 1919, which then had the
earmarks Of great prosperity, but
which today was marked with deser-
ton and poverty. I found in the court
house towns thousands Of tax execu-
tions in the hands of the sheriff for
the sale Of property of the cotton
farmers for the settlement Of taxes
which they were unable to pay, on
account of the inroads Of the boil
weevil to a. certain extent, but due
more largeup to the dehation policy
of the Federal Reserve Board, which
has brought about wreck and ruin.
On this trip, in one Of the most
prosperous counties, learned that
10000 tax executions had been placed
in the hands IF the sheriff.
saw thousands of the desetred
farms, lands which formerly were
producing wonderful crops Of cotton,
corn and other crops, now covered
with rank vegetation, and the homes
and plantations having the same
abandoned look of the rice planta-
tons.
examined the cotton fields Of the
plantation of Mr.. Hill and found that
he had produced almost full cotton
crop during the present year. In fact
on his main farm, he produced GOO
bales Of cotton on 800 acres. per-
sonally inspected the farm Of widow
who planted and cultivated the crop
with the labor of herself and six chill
5ren, and found by gin receipts that
she had produced II bales OF cotton
W. .1o;fa al onu nf the