Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-10-10
GEO. D. MARSHALL AND
STALK KILLERS HAVE
GOOD CROWD At MEET
Leslie Farmers Interested and
Determined to Begin Work Of
ExtexminztIon az Once
AT THALEAN TONIGHT
Party VIII Co There to Pre-
sent Urgent Necessity Of
Quick Work Beng Done

George 0. Marshall, county
farm demonstration agent. and his
squad Of business men who ara
urging the destruction Of green
cotton stalks before the weeviI
goes into Information were at Les
lie last night. There they were
greeted By about forty farmers ami
business men, all of whom are III
tensely interested in the success eff
the campaign.
w. 7. Anderson, cashier of the
Bank of Leslie, was among those
present and told the assembly that
the destruction Of stalks early
means a better and more profitable
crop next year, with its attendant
prosperity among Sumter county
farmers.
Mr.. Marshall. however, was tbs
chief speaker, and his remarks
were heard with the closest interest,
"While We should and viii con-
tinue to raise these other crops,
said Mr.. Marshall, I'VE may a
we'll accept this as a fact. What ]
am here tonight to do is to help
you raise this cotton at a minimum
cost and a maximum profit. Tha.
Is, to raise the greatest possible
amount of cotton on the smallest
acreage, leaving the land not
planted to cotton for other crops.
"And there are certain things
we have learned about raising cot
Son under boil weevil conditions"
he continued. Zone of these is that
if the old stalks are destroyed
while still green, before the weevil
goes into Information naturally
with the advent of frost; if you
will force the weevils into winter
quarters with empty stomachs the
insects are not strong enough TO
Withstand the vigors of winter and
consequently thousands of them
die before the time for emergence
in the spring. Thousands of Wee
wills die every year anyway in win
ter quarters. If this were not true
they would soon overrun cotton
entirely and make the production
of the staple impossible. And it is
equally true that with every far
mer doing all he can to eXtermin-
ate the wevils thousands will sur
vive each winter and emerge into
the fields to renew their devasting
work in the spring.
I "The weevil feeds solely upon
upon cotton and with this source
of food taken away they cannot
survive. The more weevils killed
this fall, and the fewer there will
be to begin propagation in cotton
fields here next spring, and this IS
what we are asking you to do
here tonight. Destroy the stalks
and take away the wevils food sup
ply, and you starve him out. In
the spring begin to poison early.
Use a molasses mixture poison
in this early poisoning work, and
later in the season when the cot
ton weed is larged use dry cal
cium arsenate. 1t is important,
however, that the destruction of
stalks be done Systematically
and that every farmer destroy
the stalks on his farm before the
weevil goes into Information ma
turally. 1t is not absolutely nee
essary even to pillow under these
stalks, the main object is at
tanned when the cotton plant IS
killed, rake up the stalks and
make way with them, but don't
burn them; l don't like to see
anything burned on farming soil
Following the talk of Mr.
Marshall and a few remarks by
r. C. Moran, in which he pledged
hearty cooperation in the cam
paign, the farmers and business
men present were asked to indi'
cate their attitude toward the ef-
fort to destroy all stalks in the
fields here early Every man
present raised his hand when this
proposition was put, and man in
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