The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-03
WIZARD is WANTED
TO ROUT THE WEEvIL
CAN CLEAN UP MILLIONS
OVER NIGHT, AND NO CUES
TIONS BE ASKED.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Here's Dixie
want ad.
Wanted: A man or woman wizard,
uniting the talents OF Edison, Bur
bank. Ford and Old Dan Tucker.
Such a person has a rare chance to
save the south from possible starva-
ton and intimate annihilation from
bug pests Address Everybody in Dix
ie, and receive a 100000 reward.
That sort OF advertisement might
appropriately be broadcast to every
newspaper in the world, according to
aeriCulturists and cotton men here.
II ever a people, they say, needed to
get out of the bromide column and
do something worth while that time
is at hand. DoubterS may be referred
to the recent report OF the national
department of agriculture, to the Geor-
aia department OF agriculture and to
the agricultural department OF the
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic rail
road, the latter of which, particularly,
has already started its campaign
against the boil weevil for the 1923
cotton crop. In a special Communica-
ton TO w. W. CrOXton, passenger
traffic manager of the A. B. and A.
railway. DR.. A. NJ. Soule, president OF
the Georgia State Agricultural col
lege, emphasizes the vital Importance
of immediate preparations in fighting
the boil weevil, which has devastated
the cotton fields OF the south.
Destroyed 6,277,OOO Bales.
Cotton experts here, based on sta
tistics compiled from various sources,
say that the boil weevil long known
as a destroyer Of potential wealth and
bugaboo of the cotton growers
throughout Dixie, prevented the south
from marketing GIT, 600 bales last
year. The value of the cotton lint and
the seed that would have been ginned
would have been $61O,341 900 based on
the price of these products December
LIST last.
A careful study OF the damages to
cotton by the boil Weeyil and other
causes has been concluded by w. r,
Tucker, agricultural agent OF the a.
B. and \. railway, whose report shows
that during the thirteen years 1909
p, the Hypothetical value OF the pre-
vented production OF cotton from all
causes totaled $11.473, 100000. OF that
amount the boil weevil damage
amounted to S3102,152,000 The farm
value OF cotton, including seed, pro-
duced in those thirteen years aggre-
gated SIS, ,523,000 or an average OF
$1,203, 578,700
Actual production OF cotton in those
thirteen years aggregated 159,648, 600
bales, while damage from all sources
aggregated 1O9,434000 bales of the
boil weevil is credited with preventing
production of 27,776,000 bales yearly,
while the reduction OF cotton in the
United States for those years there
fore aggregated 269,082,000 bales
yearly, while the reduction OF the
crops because OF damage from all
sources averaged 8,418,000 bales an
nua1y and the boil weevil's average
toll 2213.538 bales yearly. From point
OF loss in production through all
causes 1921 was a record year.
Wizard Yet to Answer
To think. it is pointed out here, that
hundreds of thousands OF worthless
idle men and women are living by
fair means or foul in the United States
today who are constantly complaining
that all worthwhile things have been
accomplished, and there is no oppOr-
tunity now for one to do anything
A man who could Danish the infini-
tesimal boil weevil could clean up
millions over night and no questions
asked And the pity OF it all is the
wizard doesn't answer when he IS
PACED ever SO loudly.