Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-02-19
CONF ERENCE
ON VEEVIL CON 7 R ROl
MEETING IN ATLANTA
Scientists, Planters, Manufactur-
ers And Bankers VIII Attend
Great Gathering
TO EXPLAIN EXPERIMENTS
Session Opens Tuesday For Two
Days-Most important Steps
To Be Taken
TO EXPLAIN EXPERIMENTS

ATLANTA, Feb. 19.-Leaders III
everv branch of the cotton inouS-
trv including planters, bankers
SINNERS and manufacturers and SCI
antists interested in the fight on the
boll weevil were gathering here TO-
dav for the national cotton CONFER
once on boil weevil control, when
orens tomorrow at the Baptist tab
ernacle.
Among the groups represented are
delegations of ten Or more from each
Of the cotton growing states, VINO
were appointed by Southern COVER
nors to represent their states IN the
two-day meeting. Aside from the IN
vited speakers and official cotton
representatives, hundreds of visitors
are expected to attend the sessions
of the conference.
Prominent men who Eere among
the early arrivals were DR.. Hudson
Maxim, inventor, who will discuss
the war science proposes to wage on
the boil weevil; DR.. Miller Reece
Hutchinson, inventor and scientist,
and managing director of the ma
tional campaign for boil weevil con-
troll; former United States Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, who will
discuss the boil weevil from the ma
tionaf viewpoint; DR.. M. L. Pupin,
an electrical scientist of Columbia
University, and d. B. Bradner, chief
chemist of the United States chemi-
cal warfare service.
The conference which opens to-
morrow is regarded by those identi-
fed with the cotton industry as one
of the most important steps now be-
ing taken in the fight to exterminate
the boil weevil pest. All aspects of
the situation will be reviewed and
discussed by the men most familiar
with them. Time will be given to the
discussion of all present methods of
weevil control by the men who de-
vised these methods.
DR.. B. r. Coad, head of the gov
ernment laboratory at Tallulah, La,
will tell of his work in pioneering
with calcium arsenate as a weevil
exterminator. George R. Smith, of
the Florida state plant board, who
was instrumental in developing the
Florida method" of weevil control;
David R. Coker, Hartsville, S. c.,
whose "molasses mixture" is wide
ly used in the Carolinas; L. D. Hill,
Of Cough, Ga, DR.. W. S. Cox, At
lanta, and ]. V. Cochran, of Mari
eta, also will describe their work.
Prominent Southerners who will
participate in the discussion include
former Governor D. /. Manning, of
South Carolina, who is on the pro-
/ gram to, discuss the planters phase
Of the boil weevil; Senator N. B. Dial,
! of South Carolina; Frank H. Bar
rett, of Augusta and Eugene R.
Black, Of Atlanta, president of the
Atlanta Trust company. Governor
Thomas W. Hardwick, Mayor Walter
Sims and j. j. Brown, Georgia com.
| missioner of agriculture, are ex-
pected to attend a welcome to the
visitors.
Availability of calcium arsenate
the most widely used chemical in
fighting the weevil pest and the basis
of all weevil poisons, will be discuss.
ed by Howard V. Armbruster, New
York, chemical engineer and known
as an international authority on cal.
cium arsenate and Bradley Slough,
ton, another New ork engineer.
Officials of the federal depart.
ment Of agriculture have shown 2
keen interest in the Atlanta confer.
ence and will be repres 9nted on the
program by DR.. L. o. Howard, CHIEF
etomologist of the department an5
DR.. W. D. Hunter, who has been ir
charge of Southern field crop in.
vestigations for the federal deDart.
ment.
Cotton growing and manufactur.
ing interests have SEM a large rep.
resentation to the ccnferece. Thcs,
include j. S. Wanamaker, president
of the American Cotton Growers as
sociation; c. Z. Hutchison, Mt. Holly
S. c., president of the American
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