The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-16

lufCHthllOu or tho cotton fields, and
abnormal weather viii DO required
to keep the damage down to normal
proportions.
AS Mr.. Cond points out. no man
lH gambling IN such u situation as
now faces ug, ana ~ would seem that
tho only sane course 10 pursue IL 10
anticipate q year Of great abundance
N boil wCCvilH and 10 plan accord.
iuEly. Every farmer who has raised
u few cotton crops under wooyil ROM
dItiuus knows how tho woovll cuts
down tho acreage he can handle pcr
pillow and still mako a crop. Fur
thormuro. the moro abundant the
less acreage ho can handle success
fully, ana certainly, therefore, with
the present prospects the acreage
per pillow for 1922 should be reduced
20 nm absolute minimum ~ the cot
ton farmer 10 10 experience any safe
~ Whatever.
NccVils Further North.
For n moment lot me revert 10
what I may describe az the dispor-
sion ~ tho boll Wocvil IN 1921. The
map We have Just completed shows
nothing but picture shows and such
that tho insect has now reached tho
limit ut cotton cultivation. except an
Isolated spot here aud there Ia the
extreme north Of tho cotton belt.
70 years cotton men argued that
tho wccvil could not 1.-Two I'm Tho lower
temperatures Of tho northern cot
ton zones. but tho woevli has arrived
In that zOnc ana has lived. whether
or not II will be as healthy M Ia tho
lower ana hotter sections Of tho cot
ton zones only time can toll. why,
u was only a few years ago that the
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10 heed Tho warning OF such men HH
Ex-Governor Manning and others.
who urged them to prepare for the
Invasion which was Inevitable. The
farmers had been led to believe that
the wccvil could not survive In the
South Carolina climate. And in 1921
tho state OF South Carolina was 100
per cont infested.
"lu 1921 tho now territory occu-
pied by the weevil ms n advanced
east and north included 1900
square miles ~ North Carolina, TO-
b36 square miles In Oklahoma, S,72a
square miles In Tennessee. 1906
square miles In Arkansas. and pro-
portionate gains IN other parts Of
the cotton belt, which. prior to 1921,
were uniufestod. Georgia ms won as
South Carolina vas totally infested.
For the first time the states OF Mis-
souri, and Kentucky were invaded
n fields within those states were
infested. Altogether the wcevil In
vndcd and occupied In 1921 n total
OF 66,662 square miles OF new ter
rttory, and there was no loss of ter
ritory anywhere In the cotton grow
Ing states. Tho close OF the 1921 cot
ton season witnessed the total infca-
t1tion Of tho ast territory of moro
linn Ann ann 0ftIaRa H.N1.m H.
tent,
I'm hriefcst possible form this IL "A
picture OF tho boil weevll situation In
tho great American cotton belt. Now
you want to know what In being
done to combat tho wcevil. what
progress Is being made and the
ohaccs OF success.
'"To begin. scores OF ways 10 eradi-
cate or control the wcevil have been
advanced, the propositions involving
everything from el%ectrocutlon " the
use OF poisoned molasses. In some
sections of the south tho %distraught
farmers have even tried to pick the
Insects off by hand. Again, many
attempts to collect the wecvils by
means OF mechanical devices and
then destroy them have been made,
nut no machine hps yet been de-
Niscd that can collect any npprc-
ctnblo proportion OF the wccvIl nom
ulhtion unless they are 20 violent
IN tho agitation of the cotton plant
mat the plant II liz seriously dam
aged n mo destroyed. Then there
was the trap row theory. namely.
the planting OF n few early rows to
attract the WoCvil. The use of only
n few rows for this purpos In value.
less, and the only possibility OF suc.
cess along this line IL To poison on
tire fields adjoining alteration
areas.
The treatment Of seeds with
chemicals Is another p]roposltIon
without value, while tho topping OF
plants, another scheme that has
been advanced, does more harm than
good. Swectncod poisons arc an
other solution OF the weeyll problem
that has been advanced. and numcr-
ous tests along this line have been
made, II has always been found that
though these poinsoned sweets NAV
nave n slight value, the results are
30 Tar inferior to the results that
FOLLOW the application OF calcium
~arsonotc as to Justify the rejection
or Ihesc swootcuod propositions.
1T has also been INSERTED that mn.
mcrous chemicals, fumigants. otc..
nave a repellcut value against the
weevil Almost every conceivable
compound has been tested for this
action, and not n single one has becu
round which had the slightest action
AGAINST the wecvil. I may add that
the theory that late planting will
operate against maximum wccyil In
hesitation is foremost among tho
futile means OF weevil control These
are but n few OF the Ineffective
means of bon weevil control that
have been tried out and, SO far nv
practical results are concerned.
found wanting.
but the story Is different I'm the
case OF calcium %arsenate, and here
we nave every reason 10 believe we
have found the poison that in the
end VIII make possible the control
or the Weevil. our southern eNperi-
mcntation stations are now and have
been for sever years past at work
perfecting the calcium %arscnate sys-
TEN OF wcevil cotrol and the results
are extremely gratifying. We are
working TO bring the price Of the
poison powder within the means Of
an the cotton farmers, bis and III.
tie, and our engineers are eNerting
their efforts TO also bring within
their means the busting machinery
mat IL necessary In tho proper an
pNcntion OF the poison"
In concluding this article the
writer recalls a recen trip through
me cotton belt states made nv
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