Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-04

according to Mr.. Wallace. under for
mula Of two pounds of calcium arSen-
ate. two quarts Of water and two gal
Ions of blackstrap molasses. You want
TO put them together in n jug or other
closed vessel of suitable size and shake
and agitate until you have a perfect
mixture. II is the calcium arSenate, of
course, that kills. You use the water
to thin down the molasSes with view
to making it go further, and being
easier to handle, and experience shows
that two quarts is about the right
thing. The resulting syrup will be
neither too thick nor too thin to hold
your poison in perfect solution.
Mr.. Edmunds went over his fields
with us, told us what he had been do
ing and showed us what he had. He
explained that the place to poison was
the top bud of the stalk-not the
shooting buds that develop into
squares; but the top bud of the plant
itself. He said that this was the first
place that the weevil comes to. That
| if she does not hit the top bud first,
she certainly finds it Immediately aft
erwnrd and makes her headquarters
| there. 1t goes to the top bud for mois-
ture or for food, possibly both; but
| that does not matter. 1t is from the
| top bud that she operates and pune
lures the developing bolls and lays her
eggs in them. What we want Is to get
q little daub of poison in that top bud
and if you do that you get the weevil
before she lays any eggs.
I'VE went all over Mr.. Edmunds' S
| fields. He showed us how he goes over
! the cotton with a mop, putting little
daub in each bud. He showed us cot
squares littering the rows and weevils
infesting the stalks. Mr.. Edmunds said
he would give us a dollar apiece fol
every weevil we found in his field. OF
course we went after that dollar. II
was serious business with us, because
il concerned the welfare OF our owr
crops: but we could not find a weevtl
Mr.. Edmunds said that a dollar Wee
vii has been a standing offer for two
weeks and nobody has found weevl
yet.
"Also Mr.. Edmunds explained that II
is his purpose to go over his neldS Wltf
poison at least every ten days ano
keen il up for the next two months un-
iii the last bloom will stand no chance
Of maturing n boil before frost. IL,
leXplained further that this is his thirt
years experience with the Weevil, anc
his second years experience with th'
liouid poison; that he poisoned las
wear and made seven bales to the plow
while the neighbOrs around him who
did not poison, made only from one
half n bale to one bale to the ploW.
1--WE had talk with Mr.. Carlisle
White, a large farmer Of Chester, wh'
has been making extensive lnVestlga'
tions into the best method Of poison
ing. including a visit TO Mr.. Coker a
Hartsville. and he has become con
vert Of the liquid poison plan; but ~
uses a different method of applying th'
poison. Instead Of a mop, he reiles Oh
n bottle with n piece cut out or TN
cork. so the poisOner can walk a!oht
and shake few drops of the poison oi
each bud. He finds that is faster an'
he says it is just as good.
"Of course we were cautioned ina
whether we use dust or liquid poison
whether we apply it with gun or MOI
or bottle, we must be careful to muZZi
the mules, and also we must be careIu
; not to use the powder while the wine
is blowing, for it is very well under
stood that whether calcium arsenat
will kill weevils or not, 1t is ba'
thing for men to get into their sys
TENS.
~ understand" concluded Mr.. wal
; lace. that the government says ina
the sweet poison is no good; but an
going TO try it anyway. ~. .
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