The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-05-12
LETTER TO COUNTY AGENT

ton on the following subjects:
1. How to get rid Of nut grass.
2. How to keep the boil weevil
from coming on my farm.
eff my farm should become in
tested with the boil weevil before I
receive a reply to this inquiry,
please advise me how the pest may
be promptly and Immediately eradi-
Gated.
4. Tell me how to get ,the mort
cages on my farm paid.H
5. When is the best time to sell
cotton?
6. am thinking of planting some
long staple cotton and would like to
know what price long staple cotton
will bring this fall.
/ / have some friends who would
also like to have answers to these
questions and if it is not asking
too much of you, would be glad II
you would write a letter to the
paper in order that all OF my
friends may get the benefit of your
learning.
Sincerely,
Reply
Dear Sir:
/. To rid a field OF nut grass,
some men have been successful by
blowing at least three times during
the winter and putting hogs in the
field. The hogs, when allowed to
root, will eat large quantity OF the
roots. ...
--:.c o2..y way 10 keep the boil
weevI from your farm is to make 1t
such an uninteresting place that ne
will not care to make it his home.
You can easily do this by cutting Oft
his food supply, which consists OF
cotton, but during famine he will
use other plants Of the malvacea or
der and especially Of the Hibiscus
family. Be sure that during the COM
ing year, you do not allow these
plants to make growth on your
farm, as the prospects are now,
there will not be enough cotton on
your neighbors farm to supply his
needs and he will likely wander
about during the summer, and
kwhen he comes to your place, If ne
finds them, he will be sure to take
up his abode.
8. Experiments have shown that
many animals and insects are very
fond Of music and while no definite
experiments have been conducted IN
cbnnection with the boil weevil,
/ feel sure that if you secure the
services Of the Carolina Syncopators
and get them to perform in the hol-
dow near the branch, that the boil
weevil will be so enthralled with
the vibrant strains that you may
easily lead them to where they may
be captured with any of the numer-
GUS boil weevil traps that have been
sold in the County.
4. In paying a mortgage OFT a
farm, different methods must be
used, according to the type Of man
who holds same. I would advise
that YOU cultivate this man and af-
ter YOU have learned him, perhaps
L can give you more definite infor-
ma5ion.
S. i believe that you will find that
the best time to sell cotton, is when
it will bring the most money during
the season in which it is produced.
G. am sure that if you can ac-
curately find the amount of long
staple cotton on hand; the amount
that will beN produced this year; the
profit that will be made in hand
ling: the weather for the coming
wear, (your almanac will give you a
correct report); and the quality and
auantity of the material that will
be needed by the ladies to lengthen
their winter skirts, according to-
Vogue's Forecast, that you will be
able. to accurately determine, with
in rs cents a pound, just what long
staple cotton will be worth.
If at any time can be OF further