Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-09

10000 bales.
In giving this statement to The
Timcs-Recorder today, Mr.. Mar
shall, basing his estimate of pro-
duction upon a continuance of good
weather this week and next, said
Sumter county would market 2O,-
600 bales, except that where wee
vii infestation is heavy or farmers
fail to poison their fields heavily
during the period between this
date and July 21, the yield may
easily be cut by one-haas.
Mr.. Marshall continued his dis
cussion of the problem confronting
the farmer, saying that Sumter
cotton growers up to this time
this year have used more system in
poisoning their fields for the boil
weeyil than ever before "Now,
however, is the vital time" he
said, wien dverytlsing depends
upon the energy put into the work
of poisoning the weevil, and if the
work is allowed oslacken the
least bit, all the work done earlier
in the season will be of no avail.
New weevils are now emerging
from squares in the fields of Sum-
ter, '"> continued Mr. Marshall,
'and this first hatch is well un-
der way. Farmers who have been
thinking they had few or no boil
weevils in their fields, if they will
look closely will find the first vel
dence of this hatch in their feed
ing signs. The young wevils are
now feeding upon the young
square which they puncture, but
they have not yet begun to deposit
eggs. they are now too young to
deposit these and the first hatch
wevils are putting in all their time
eating and drinking-and if their
eating and drinking be poisoned, it
means their end.
"T'he weevils requre approM-
mately from 4 to 5 days after
Matching out before they begin to
deposit eggs themselves, and this
IS the period during which they are
most susceptible to poison. It is the
time during which they eat and
drink more than during any other
period, and they are consequently
more exposed to the poison Poi
son during this period should be ap-
piled not. farther apart than four
days, and in cases of heavy show
ers just after the poison is ap-
Piled, new poisoning should fol-
low imediately."
Mr.. Marshall advocates the use
Of dry calcium arsenate at this
season, and calls attention to the
fact that the hatching season for
the first hatch weevils will ex-
tend over approximately two
weeks. Several weeks ago he sound
ed warning to farmers that they
should expect the appearance in
their field of new weevils around
July As. These weeVils are now
out, and he has in his Office a bottle
containing number of squares he
picked up in a farm near Amer
lcus. These squares are all filled
with larvae and are Matching out
very rapidly. In fact while news
paper man sat at his desk in Mr..
Marshall's office today it was no
tlced the number of weevils in the
bottle increased.
This same condition exists in the
fields, Mr.. Marshall says, and it
can readily be seen that literally
millions Of the weevils are being
hatched out every day in the thou.
sands of acres devoIed to cotton
culture throughout the county
Poison now-immediately, and
keep up the work through July 21, .
says Mr. Marshall, "and Sumter
! will harvest a good cotton crop this
fall. Much Of the work necessary
done, but unless the poisoning is
! to win the fight has already beer
, kept up during this critical period
all that has been done earlier il
the season will be lost, and tht
: momentary loss to farmers anC
business men will be tremendous
{ Where weevil infestation is heav!
. and farmers do not poison theil
. fields properly and regularly dur
ing this critical period, the yielc
F., may easily be cut in half
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