The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
Boil Weevil Meeting
Agricultural Experts and Fer
tilizer Men viii Tell Farm
ers How to Beat the Pests

Mr.. f. H. Jeter, agricultural cd
itor of the Soil Improvements Com
mittee of the Southern Fertilizers
Association of Atlanta, Ga, Was IN
Sumter this week and after con-
ference with Secretary <. |. Rear
don il was decided that un6er the
auspices OF the Sumter County
Chamber Of Commerce. with the
cooperation Of the Sumter County
| Committee of Progress and the
Young Mems Business League Of
Sumter a county mass meeting will
be held at Sumter Court House at
10 a. m. Saturday, January 21st.
DR.. E. $. Booth. president Of the
Sumter Chamber of Commerce
presiding, at which prominent
southern agriculturalists and gov
ernment experts will discuss various
methods Of how to beat the boil
weevil, necessary changes IN the
farm program under boil weevil
conditions. how the farmers have
| fought the boil weevil successful
ly, in other sections. soil and fer
tilizer factors in fighting the boil
weevil: place Of livestock on the
farm, dairying, etc.
Government experts who have
successfully fought the boil weevil
in every infested southern state,
and prominent southern agricul-
! tural workers, have planned a
South Carolina campaign begin
ming January l6. 10 a. na., at Aiken.
S. C. The object is to tell South
! Carohnians how to fight the boil
weevil with success.
Instances will be cited of how
farmers in South Carolina and
Georgia put up a successful fight
last season. The success attend
ing the work Of government boil
weevil experts at Fairfax, S. c..
and Waynesboro, Georgia will be
recounted.
The campaign Will deal with the
problem Of growing cotton under
boil weevil conditions under two
main headings. First, how to get
large bottom crop set before the
weevil becomes dangerous, in
other words, How to beat the
weevil 10 it." Second the campaign
will tell Of the methods that are to
be employed in directly combat
ting and controlling the weevil SO
that a full crop can be grown.
urao%a,, o,,f = nv, or, or
the boil weevil can be found in the
country than Geo. A. Maloney a
government boil weevil expert. He
brings a message of hope. He will
tell how the government has fairly
tried out every known or suggested
means of fighting the boil weevil
and what the government has
found to be the best.
An agriculturist we'll known to
the South Carolina farmers is J. \.
Harper for many years director Of
the South Carolina Experiment sta
ton and now director of the Soil
Improvement Committee Prof.
Harper will tell of the changes in
the farm program under boil Wee
Vii conditions.
5. How to beat the boil weevil to
it." will be the subject of an ad-
dress Of c. a. Whittle for several
years prominent in agricultural
work in the south.
How Farmers Have Fought the
Boil Weevil Successfully" will be
the subject of F. II. Jeter a South
Carolin;an who is widely known as
an agricultural writer
Soil and Fertilizer Factors in
Fighting the Boil Weevill" conSti-
tuteS the subject to be handled by
David D. Long. Soil Specialist for
many Years in the Soil Survey work
Of the L. S. Department Of Agri-
culture.
Place Of Livestock on the Cot
ton Farm" is assigned K. j. H. De-
Loach, cotton belt product. form
c" director Of the Georgia Station
and author Of book on cotton
growing.
Another prominent aSriculturist
VIII )IODdDly De eIlllSteC.
Business men, bankers, cotton
factors, fertilizer men as we'll as
farmers are urged TO attend the
meeting which will be held here
January 2ISt.
Meetings TO be held in South
Carolina and the dates are as fol-
lows:
Aiken, January 16.
Blackville, January II.
Barnwell, January j.
Allendale, January IS.
Denmark. January IS.
Orangeburg. January 10.
st. Matthews, January %.
Sumter. January 2 st. IL a. n
Manning, January %.
Bishopville. January 233.
Florence, January "a.
Darlington, January 24.
Cheraw. January 2G.
Bennettsville. January 81.
Dillon. January -
Marion. January 2S.
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