The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-08
BOIL WEEYIL
CATCHERS
And P0IS0NS
County Agent J. F.
Williams NJ a k e S
Suggestions Based
Upon Practical Ex-
perience

perlence
The time has arrived when YOU
can put Off no longer the first sum-
OF the blooms haze shed their
and the spray will be aefz
fective. Use one pound Of pow
dercd arscnate Of lead and two
pounds OF lump lime to a barrel
OF water. Repeat this every two
weeks until the peaches start to
swell 10 get ripe and then spray
them With q one per cent lime sui
phur solution. that is one gallon
concentrated solution TO eighty 10
4 hundred gallons Of water and
still use the pound Of arscnate OF
lead per barrel II you have not
gotten rid of all the borcrs from
around the trees. keep coughing
them out. No trunk no tree. The
young trees that have been set out
and headed back to fifteen to
eighteen inches. now need all OF the
buds or lea:es rubbed except four
of the top ones. The four top buds
will make the head of the tree or
main limbs. When these four limbs
arc about ten to twelve inches long.
the buds from each Of these four
limbs should be pinched. This will
help TO give your tree a strong
frame on which TO build. Keep in
mind the fact that YOU want your
trees shaped like an inverted UNI
brella. so that the sunshine may
color your fruit and kill disease
sports. Also that the height must
be kept down to where the trees
can be easily sprayed and the fruit
easily picked.
sec. that there are being offered
for sale in Sumter county boil
weevil catchers and brushes for
knocking or shaking the cotton
stalks and thereby distributing poi
son early. SO far as attaching
something to the plows OF single
trees to agitate the stalks and shake
off the punctured forms. this is
practice in common use .say back
in old wecvil territory. but the
poisoning OF wcevils is: still in the
experimental stage. Any farmer
who is in doubt about results OBJ
tanned from poisoning With calcium
arsenate. can satisfy himself by
calling up over the phone Mr. j.
+. Bland 1T MayeSville and Mr.. l..
j. Mayes at the same place. Both
of these gentlemen tried out dust
ing with calcium arsenate last Year
and they are both Of the opinion
that they were not benefited any
ar all. They tel! US that it was
our wet season that prevented get
ting results Down in the old Wee
Vii territory, they tell me that they
can make cotton dry Years with
out anything, and il the calcium
arsenate Will not help Us wet years
then it seems 10 me that ii would
be risky business investing in an
unknown probability. The South
ern Cotton Oil company is gong to
conduct several experiments III
poiSonin. this year. am glad 10
sec these gentlemen 90 this work.
As a general rule the farmer IS not
able TO conduct experiments. }
trust that Mr. FishburGe who Will
look after these experiments in
,,.i1I
placartlS so that We shall al be ao!c
TO observe them and ii there is any
real value III poisoning we only
have 10 be shown and we snail
spend our money FOR poison just
like we have always spent II tor
commercial fertilizers. AS to the
machines for catching boil weeVllS
| seriously doubt il any OF these
machines are being offered for sale
down in Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas. and three or four years from
now we shall settle down 10 Il pol
i,:v Of good farming. rotating our
crops. growing some live stock !or
sale. growing some truck crops Tor
sale. with commercial peach or
chardS in western part OF counly.
We shall farm more economically
in the future than in the past.
More re>attcntiou Will be given 10 the
making and handling OF barn yard
manure: leg,,,ne crops Will be
looked upon as Il necessity. ana
n"erly Ill of our farms Will be
surrounded by good fences. You
will hear very h,tlc talk about ho!l
wcevils.
because Of the fact chat the boil
wccv;l hibnrnatcS in such different
ways and has such peculiar habits
that he will eat UP one field TINS
year and next year leave II COM
uara.ivcly alone until late III the
season. ON this account he OIL
fcrs the best opportunity FOR
farmers TO draw their CONCLUSION
how TO handl" him. and by the way
;it,.s, conclusions are changed each
year know that in some fields
on my place Ihcy did not 90 nearly
80 much damage Il they Gld N "th-
crS and cannot account Tor the
difference When we We're down
in Georgia we heard OF a colorcd
fellow who made considerable
money out of solution composed
ol lamp black and Kerosene which
he used and he made n good crop
OF cotton. OthCrS used the same
remedy and got no RESULTS. Prob
1hly the colorcd man who first tried
the lamp black and keroSen" would
have made just as much cotton had
lie used nothing. ! once asked a
veterinarian ii a certain patented
remedy WIS good Tor horse cote