The Nevada County picayune., 1922-09-21

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 cotton. Marking back to the days be- fore the advent of the boll-weeYlI we recall that frequently cotton was just about as hard to make as il iS now. and often il sold for price ranging between 1 and x cents per pound. with cotton seed sometimes selling aS low as 5000 per ton on board cars. We did not have anything like the prosperity in those days as we now have. due no doubt in large measure to the low price of our cotton. but. it should not be forgotten that everything the farm CT had to buy was correspondingly cheap. so that the low prices for cot ton in those days cannot be blamed en- tirely for the lack of prosperity.
 In those days the farmer did not know as much as he does now. He was not the reader and thinker he is
 today. The boIl=weeyi problem has been the means of greatly increasing the farmers stock of information. and he has gotten lot of new experience which he never should have had, had the boll-weeyil never come To this extent the advent of the boll-weeyil has been blessing to the southern farmer
 TNe boil weevil reached this part of Arkansas about 19o5. or IS years ago. He has been with us ever since. the extent of the injury has varied from year to year. The weeviI k still with us and he will be here next year. although no one can pre- diet with any degree of accuracy what the damage may be this coming sea son It may be light then it may be severe
 Fortunately for the cotton grower, there are several things which he can do to lessen weevil damage. especially damage early in the season. Many will say that We now have q successful method of controlling weevil damage through poisoning. This is true. but it involves a lot of trouble and expense. besides some danger to health. We would not advise the farmer to pin his faith to poisoning and neglect every thing else To be frank, we had much rather see farmers refuse to use the poison. only when every other means have failed
 Our farmers should not overlook any bets in dealing with the bOll-wee- vii They should take advantage of everything that will lessen weeyil in jury. especially those measures that do not require much additional eX- pcnse. and involve any risk to ones health but. will in addition lead at the same time to better farm practise.
 one of the most important and at the same time most effective means af reducing weevl infestation during the early spring months k the early destruction of the cotton stalks after he cotton crop has been harvested. whenever this can be finished suffic= icntly early 10 be effective. The pre-. sent cotton crop will soon he harvest ed er most of the hill lands of this section The cotton stalks are still green. and with the coming of fall rains. much new growth will be put out with the formation of thousands of new squares The weevil k still present in considerable numbers. He will feed on this new growth and many thousands of young weeyils will reach maturity before the coming of Killing frost. These weevilS will go into winter auaretrs if left undisturbed, and, early next spring they will emerge with the first appearance of warm weather ready to puneture the first squares that appear on the young cot ton
 If the cotton stalks are destroyed some time during the next two or three weeks most of these weeyils will die of starvation before the time for them to seek shelter for winter. Now. this, (the fall destruction of stalllsl. is one of the most effective of all the indi- rect methods of weeyil control. It was one of the first and most consistently and continuously recommended meth ods hy the boll-weevil experts. It con- tinues to this day as one of the out standing methods of control. It must,