The Monroe journal., 1922-12-01
SEABOARD HAS FAITH in NEW
METHOD B. REEYIL CONTROL
JONES ADVISES FARMERS
TO GIVE PLAN 4 TRIAL
He SAYS Agent of His Company Fol-
lowed Experiments Conducted in
the Everglade State
CAN GET THE DETAILS By
WRITING TO RAILROAD

On account of the great Importance
Of the recently discovered Improved
Method" for controlling the cotton
boil weevil, made by the state plant
board of Florida, the Seaboard Air
Line. through its development de-
partment. feels that il would be do
ng n great injustice If full informa-
ton was withheld from all those far
mers growing cotton along its tribu-
tary territory in the state of Ala
bama. Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Virginia. Jesse NJ.
Jones', general development. agent of
he Seabosrd, declared here yester-
day.
The fact that il has been found
practical to bring cotton back into
Florida is very important to the 9TH
err states named, because in Florida
the m lder winters do not kill as
many boil weevil, and the heavy rain
fall during the longer summer great
ly favors the pest, he said.
This method of CONTROL" he con-
tinued, "shows conclusively that any
farmer, white or black, need have no
fear in growing cotton under boil
weev.l conditions. This Improved
Method is a radical departure from
those control methods that have been
advocated for the past twenty years.
The ordinary calcium arsenate meth
cd of treating boil weevil has prov
en- successful to some extent in the
area served by the Seaboard Air Line.
However, it is has not been found
adaptable except on land that will
produce at least a half bale of cot
ton per acre. Therefore, the devel-
opment department of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway feels that it should
present to the farmers it daily serves
this cheap, and by far the most eff
ficient, method for controlling the
weevil that has yet been discovered,
that these farmers may be better
able to support prosperous homes.
"While this method of control has
not been worked out, or tried, in any
other states than Florida, there at
present appears no. theoretical rea-
son why it should not be applicable to
the other states. In the light of the
information which is at present avail
able, the Improved Method adapted
to the farms in the counties through
which the Seaboard Air Line passes,
is briefly this:
Remove all squares, whether pune
tured or unpunctured, from the cot
ton plants just before the first bloom
appears in the field.
"Follow this at, once. or within a
day or two, or before the squares
start growing back, with thorough
dusting of each plant with either
calcium arsenate or nowdered arse
nate of lead. This poison should be
applied by means of a hand dust gun,
which forces the poison into the top
buds of the cotton plant where the
boil weevil feeds when there are no
squares.
Representative Of the Seaboard's
development department have care
fully followed and studied this meth
cd in the fields as it was being tested
out, and have personally talked with
the farm owners and tenants, black
and white, who have made three to
twelve times more cotton in those
fields where they used this Improved
Method over where they did not fol-
low it. In some fields there was on
ly a small number of weevils, but in
other fields there were as many as
800 per acre. This Improved
Method proved equally effective un-
der beth conditions.
The development department Of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway, at
Norfolk, Va, is publishing a circu-
lar entitled An Improved Method of
Controlling Boil Weevil,' giving full
details regarding this Improved
Method and the results obtained. A
copy of this circular will be gladly
sent to any one requesting it."