The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-26
BOIL WEEVIL MEN IN NEAR RUPTURE
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which will provide the coordination, correlation and augmentation of plans and facilities for weevil con- trol investigation and for the adop- tion of the best practices through out the cotton belt, and further to secure the fullest possible co-opera- tion intellectually and financially among all interested parties in this final solution of this surprisingly important weevil control problem" Will Meet November Il.
 The Association of Southern Agri- cultural Workers. 1t developed In the discussion. will meet November H. This organization is said to be com posed of agricultural college profess sors and workers of the various gov ernment research stations.
 Adoption of this section would have automatically taken the form ing of a permanent organization out of the hands of the conference, it was asserted, leaving it in the hands of a committee of four appointed by the chairman, c. G. Riyes, Jr, and a comNittee to be appointed by the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers when that organization meets some time in the future, After the elimination of the paragraph MT. Rives appointed the resolutions com mittee. which went into session im- mediately. This committee has in structions to report tomorrow morn ing with suggestions for perma- nent organization.
 The resolutions committee is com posed of H. M. Royce, vice president of the New York Cotton Exchange; Dr. J. W. Lea of Jackson, La, one of the callers of the conference; R. D.. Bowen of Texas, pr. W. D. Hunter of the United States department of agriculture, W. R. Scott, president of the Southern Pacific railroad of Texas; H. S. Mobley of the Illinois rington of Greenville, s. C., O. B. Bradfute of the American Farm bu- reau, L. K. Nicholson, editor of the TimesPicayune of New Orleans; Dr. Tate Butler of Memphis, j. w. Fox of Scott, Miss, and MT. Duncan of Okla homa.
 Recommend Calcium Arsenate.
 Calcium arsenate applied either as a syrup mixture or in the form of dust, before the blossoms form, was recommended to the conference by the special committee of investiga- ton as the proper weapon to be di- rected at the cotton pest.
 The recommendation was embodied in the report of the committee, which suggested there should be one treat ment with the poison, and possibly two. It declared that when dusting was resorted to there was better control of the weevil after the plants had reached the blossom stage, and 1t urged that the dusting be done early in the season.
 The Florida method, developed at the Florida experiment station at Gainesville, the committee said, re- suits in good control of hibernated weevils and reduces the attack in the early part of the season, increas- ing the yield. but this treatment sometimes leaves the field subject to reinfestation, causing a shorter fruit age period. The Florida method in wolves removal of squares from the cotton plants in conjunction with the dusting. s- Conference Officers Elected.
 The general sessions of the confer ence began today with the election of MT. Rives, president of the Louisi- ana Bankers association, as perma- nent chairman and his appointment of J. c. Berry, secretary of the asso- ciation. as secretary of the confer ence.
 The speakers included Gov. John M. Parker of Louisiana, former Gov. Frank Q. Lowden of Illinois, and Senator Ransdell.
 MT. Lowden. declaring the Amer ican farmer during the last three than ever before in the country's his- tory, urged greater cooperation in marketing organizations. which would enable them to work in great CT unison on producing methods and measures to eliminate insect pests.