The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-12-08
BCNg. WEEViL FIGHT
HAS BEEN SUCCESS
Gensral Survey Of the Situation is
Given; Calcium Arsenate
Dust is Best
fBy C. A. WHITLEY

{By T.. A. Whlttle.)
The greatest success " e won by
farmers in controlling the boil wee
sd kzs been won this year
Rns vriter makes this statement
x4eT receiving reports from farmers
s-uzaty agents agricultural, colleges,
sease departments of agriculture ana
me UNITED States Department of Ag
~rk1sture,
The method most generally used
wat success has been the Govern
Arszk method, that calcium arsenate
dEsS.
Take the State of Georgia: In 49,
q less than ten carloads of calcium
sxssssatH we're used, but in 1922 one
s1zdeed and thirty carloads were
xpn6aesg and from reports, the de-
uzsnsf Of Georgia alone will exceed
Ssg aext year.
The success of the busting method
Sas t,ssu so generally successful
sSas saemers who had given up cot
sua growing are already ordering
,sIgiun, arenate for next year,
md many who had tried other METH
sss Exye come now to a determlna-
Sen to use dust. Such are the re-
,xsrss tanning to from reliable an
I~h1hties.
In South Carolina many leading
fsrusrs have used calcium arsenate
sapzs with satisfaction and intend to
xuusiaue to depend upon it. Many
,- farmers were led to try pois-
.yssa moIasses, who later in the sea-
.spa applied calcium ~arsenate dust
Nxzry of this class are satisfied WIN
aes1YS
s3teers used poisoned molasses
xnd xatherer infested squares some
ssssxlnlrg satisfactory results others
..ys. Still others used poisoned mo-
aasss only and did not pick up
,svuzres. From reports this methoo
4x1sd quite generally.
The most extensive and conclusive
spsss of calcium ~arsenate dust ever
,uass we're carried out this year 10y
suSaess interests. These tests were
nm made to advertise a product
5,5, these concerns sell for they 90
ss1I calcium arsenate, but they
rrr. made to demonstrate quickly
bar calcium arsenate would or
zuy,d not control the weevil under
,s;,s climate conditions of n
ar~usasast.
ryprs hundred and two complete
,,xneriments we're made extending
1uru Gilman, Alabama, to Gas6onla
North Carolina c~entering largely IN
Georgia and South Carolina.
Ten acres of cotton was set aside
,sor szch test, five being treated
with calcium ~arsenate and i've acres
sssx untreated. In this way one can
=. x1at has been accomplished by
Fhe poison. -,
So scientifically We're these tests
az;x out and carried on that the uni
,,sE State Department of Agrlcui-
asg assigned an expert to check up
.so1 mike notes of the result, Agrl-
ruttsraI colleges with their county
sseu&s are directing attention to
&evn as authentic demonstrations.
Washout an exception the 3o2
aests have demonstrated that cal
sEu arsenate can be used success
ssziffs In boil weevil contest. This too
.andsr all the varied conditions OF
vii climate, variety of cotton and
,sifYareut cultural methods existing
.~hrvughaut the southeast.
Slnre. this was a great i%onstruc-
:siFe piece of work designed to find
:rut the truth and does not advertise
swoducr that any of the business
asnosrns are selling their names are
tsersxiM given. Virginia Carolina
sssauca1 Company, Southern Cot
asn OIL Company, Atlantic Coast
dine Railway. Geo H. McFadden &
Bro Barrett Cotton Company, Citi-
;ens and Southern Bank and S. 81.
!BuNy & Son.
The general direction Of the tests
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