Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-07

the speaker is made much more diff
ficu't. At a prayer meeting it is diff
ferent. The audience will more readily
respond to a request to gather in a
bunch where we can talk to it with
more ease and better effect. But Of the
fact the desirabiiity of getting each
and every audience collected in a
bunch there is no question of doubt. II
that could be done it would make the
work of the preacher much easier than
it is"
No Boil Weevils in Cockleburs.
"The boil weevil is too smart a bug
to ever try alternating in the roots of
the cocklebur," said John r. Blair,
Saturday. "The boil weevil tries to
find dry places to winter and while
there is a weevil that is found in the
roots of the coclilebur, it is not the boil
weevil. There are all kinds Of Vice.
wills" continued Ma Blair, land the
cocklebur weevil is as different from
the bo'l weevil as is the corn Wee
vii"
Mr.. Blair then went on to say that
the boil weevil is killed by millions by
the cold weather, but many of them
find places in hollow logs and under
logs and in hollow trees and are alb e
to get through the winter. But sup
pose only ten per cent. of the weevils
are left" said the demonstration
agent, there is more than a plenty to
do the cotton crop lots of damage. For
instance, to give you an idea OF the
way the weevils increase. Take ten
weevils, each female, or say five of them
will lay more than a hundred eggs, and
the eggs become weevils in three weeks.
Well, the eggs Of the five females
become 500 weevils and If half of these
are female and produce a hundred eggs
each, when these are hatched we have
$4,000 weevils. Now just carry that
out few generations of weevils and
you will begin to see why the boil
weevil makes such short work OF a
field of cotton. But the average egg
production of each female weevil is
considerably over 100 eggs each. It is
more like 140. No, am not going TO
burn the cock 'ebur roots on my place.
I am leaving them for such fertilizer
value as they may have concluded
Mr.. Blair.
Oldest Subscribers.
Maybe / can't quite come into the
class that has been subscribing for The
Yorkvrle Enquirer for forty years,
said D. c. Clark, carrier on York No. l,
but 1 easily belong to the class that
has been reading the paper for forty
years and have been a subscriber for
most of the time. In fact I have been
a subscriber ever since married"
"I have been taking The Yorkville
Enquirer ever since December. 26, 1857,
when was married" said Milus S.
Carroll of Filtert No, l. II can re-
member reading the old Yorkville Mis-
cellany, published by L. NJ. Grist, but
that was while l was still living with
my father. My father, however, COM
menced taking The Yorkville Enquirer
with the first issue, and l have been
taking it ever since. read every issue,
Of the paper from the first column on
the first page to the last column on the
last page, and although / take . num-
Der of other papers and magazines The
Yorkville Enquirer is the best of the
list"
You forgot to mention ME among
your oldest subscribers writes S. H.
Epps, Sr., of Fort Mill No. l. Il have
been taking The Yorkville Enquirer
since 1867 or 1868, with the exception
of a year or two and the editor told me
one day that he could not remember
when my name was not on the mail
ing list"
Mr.. A. H. Merritt, a one-armed
Confederate veteran Of Fort Mill
township has been taking The York
vile Enquirer 81 years. He writes: 1T
was printed only once week then and
there was only a little more than two
thirds as much matter in one issue
then as there is in one issue now. The
price was three dollars a year. I wish
you continued success