The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-03-29
COTTON GROWING UNDER
BOIL WEEVIL CONDITIONS
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Dear Farmer Friends:

'eil oI farming Will have to be changed
10 great extent. Heretofore we have
depended on cotton to buy all that we
ana our stock ate, but now we can
market about half of a cotton crop to
ourselves by raising our own supplies
at home. 1t took the money from
about half Of our cotton crop to pay
for these things. All farmers who do
not raise their own supplies this year
are working to a means to stop farm
ing this coming fall | have been in
the boil weevil district in Georgia for
Tour years and [ have seen hunureds
OF farmers go broke trying to farm ana
raise all or nearly all cotton. Farm
ers in Laurens county will be in the
same boat, if they use the same plan.
Now is the time to set your plans for
this year, so what are you going to do?
Are YOU going to buy every boil
wcevfl machine that is offered for sale?
Why, no, you can't afford to do that
You can only afford to buy and do the
things that are and have been tested
out by the experimental stations and
the federal government. The govern
mcnt has found that the calcium ar
senate dust is good and profitable un-
der certain conditions but every farm
er can't afford to use it at the present
time. No farmer should attempt to use
the calcium arsenate dust unless he
uses it on high yielding land;
When weevil infestation is heavy;
When you can apply the poison by a
correct schedule;
When weather conditions are rea-
sonably favorable for poisoning;
When you can buy the poison at q
reasonable price;
When you have confidence in the
poisoning method;
When you are willing to carry out
instructions given by the originator,
b. r. Coad, federal government ex-
perimentOr;
When you are willing to take loss
provided it rains so your dust won't
have the effect as it should
There is no one thing hundred
per cent perfect, so you will have to
use "A combination Of things.
BY buying the calcium arscnate CO.
cIoeratively we can get the dust at lie
per pound delivered. 1t will surely
ray many to try out this dust in order
to learn how to use it and you will
surely make expenses back provided it
doesn't rain too often and you follow
instructions.
The first thing to do now is plan not
to put in over six to eight acres to the
plow in cotton for you can't possibly
manage more than that and that is
enough to risk the weevils eating up.
Select your best yielding land, which
should be early land, that.is warns up
early in the spring and as far away
from woods as possible. New grounds
full of rotton strmos will be an extra
good place for your weevils to get an
early start for they hibernate in old
rotten stumps and logs and old dead
trees standing.
Be sure that you have good seed of
an early maturing variety and va
riety that will have some late squares.
The Cleveland seed is the best for they
have stood the test under boil weevil
conditions on the experimental sta
tions.
Buy a quick acting fertilizer with
nitrate OF soda furnishing the most OF
the nitrogen From four to five hun
drcd pounds of nigh grade fertilizer
to the acre will give you the hest av-
erage returns. I: YOU Inv, llenty OF
seed put abou. twice as many to tbs
acre as you did before Van had tho
weevils. If you miss stand the first
time it surely will not pay you tc
plant over.
The reasons for reducing your acre.
age is to have the amount you car
manage for you will surely have tc
pick live weevils by hand, then yor
will have to pick up the squares.
will tell you later why 1t ie necessary
to do these things.
/ have had the question asked me
"Why not everybody get poison ant
llpoison at one time In order to kill al
the weevils?" This theory would worl
II all the weevils came out Of hiberna
ton at the same time, but some few
are already out and the last ones will
be out somewhere about the first to the
fifteenth OF July, Usually the one.
that are the best hibernatedG are las