The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-11-15
CALLS MEETING TO
RAP BOIL WEfVIL
Governor Harvey Wants Conference I'M
Columbia
FARMERS ARE INVITED
Agriculture Scientists to Join in
Working Out Effective
Plan

Columbia, Nov. 14.-A conference,
to be participated in by score or
more of scientific farmers and agri-
cultural scientists, to prescribe for.
mula for combating the inroads and
propagation of the cotton boil weeviI,
was called this afternoon by. Cover
ernor Harvey to meet here in the
State Library at noon, Saturday, Mo-
vcmber 18th. q
"The degree of prosperity in South
Carolina" said the letter of the Gov
ernor to those invited, "is dependent,
in the near future at least, on The de-
gree of success attained in the con-
troll of the boil weevil; and the degree
of such control seems dependent upon
the degree of unanimity, with which
cotton growers adopt approved protec.
tive measures.
Systematic Work Needed
ITO reach the ear and fix the
attention Of the multitude of small
farmers in this State, will require
much systematic work and sus-
tanned effort, and the employment
of every possible agency for publicity
and influence. Reasonable success
would be a notable achievement.
while it is true that every known
method Of attacking the weevil has
been publicly urged many times, it
has been represented to me that the
position of the press and other agen-
cles, willing and anxious to make a.
systematic campaign to bring into
line all cotton growers in the State,
would be greatly strengthened and
their work made much more effective
should they be furnished one fixed
point around which to concentrate
such as would be presented in q
pronouncemcnt as official is prac-
ticablc to be made, by body of
scientists and successful scientific
farmers, as to the proper methods
of combating the inroads of the boil
wcevil.
"That this material may be fur
furnished, l write you as am
writing a score Of other gentlemen.
to meet in the State Library at Co.
lumbia, at II o'clock noon, Satur-
day, November 18. l sincerely trust
you will make every effort to at
tend this meeting. Your rccommen.
dations will be urged upon the atten~
tion of farmers in every township in
which cotton is grown in South Caro-.
lima.
at is, in general, desired that
the recommendations presented be
as simple and sufficiently as prac.
ticable, shall include the approved
plan for procedure for the farmer
from the present time to next Au-
gust, with such suggestions as to
time of planting, quality of land,
etc, as you consider pertinent"
Those invited to the conference
are: David r. Cokcr, Hartsville;
w. w. Long, director extension de-
partmcnt, Clemson College; A. F..
, Conrad, Clemson College; II. G..
Hammer, Columbia; r. c.. Hamer,
, Eastover; B. Harris, State Depart
ment of Agriculture, Columbia; !;
, Skottowe Wannamakcr, president
American Cotton Association, St.
q Matthew's; DR.. j. b. Johnson, Rock
, Hill; r. M. Cooper, Jr., Wisacky;
l.. |. Guion, Lugof; w. M. Riggs,
Clemson College; Wade Drake, An
derson; J.. d. Jennings, Sumter;
Thomas G. Mcleod, Bishopville; A,
4 r. Johnston, st. George; DR.. w. C.
S Brown, Newberry; Neils Christen-
t sen, Beaufort; A. f. Lever, Colum-
), bia; G. Il. Rizer, Olar; Richard l.
n Manning, Columbia; j. p. Poole
: Grcenville; j. w. Castor, Spartan
burg; Edgar L. Cutler, Jr., Orange.
= burg.