Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-28
KILL THE BOIL
WEEVILs NOW.


.darhsall. Every cotton stalk il
the field should be killed. Turr
hem under if you will. That's best
but whether you turn them under
or not, root them up. The sur
Lii the stalk and force the weevil
INTO early winter quarters. The
earlier he goes in, the sooner he
comes out in the spring. The earlier
he comes out in the spring, the
easier and cheaper to kill him.
Start your cotton crop now. De-
gtroy all stalks now.
This is not just newspaper talk.
It is the advice of Sumter farmers,
Who KNOW-of Marshall and 9th
crs who have studied the weevil for
three or four years.
This is the message that every
paper in the state is carrying to
their readers. Says the Albany
Herald:
"how many farmers in this
section have destroyed their 1923
cotton stalks? How many will
destroy them before the middle
of October?
There are plenty of cotton
fields in South Georgia in which
there is neither open cotton nor
any prospect thereof. That is
wholly true Of fields in which no
poison has been used, for in
them the boil weevil's work of
destruction is complete.
1T is \ gree! mistake not to
destroy the cotton stalks as soon
aS they have Welded their crop.
The various Departments of 40
riculturo so declare aud their
cont"~fiop is abrndan'lv borne
out in the experience of many
farmers"
Such a farmer is one who told
in last Thursdays epochal meet
ing OF Colquitt county farmers,
bankers and business men at Moul-
.rie, Observes, the Herald where the
agricultural problems Of that cons
munity were The subject of thought.
ful consideration, Ris experience
with stalk destruction This, farmer
is thus quoted by the Moul.rie OBJ
server:
Joseph A Williams, one of the
most successful cotton farmers
in South Georgia, made an inter-
esting talk on the plan tina. he
had used in fighting the weevil.
He is a great advocate of stalk
destruction and relied almost
wholly on that method in saving
his CROP. He first tried the
plan five years ago and the first
year he produced bale an acre
on 60 acres. The next year he
made three-quarters of 4 bale,
and this year he insisted that be
had fewer boil weevils in his
fields on July % than he shas had
at any time since the weevil in
vaded this ection. He pointed
out that stalk destruction was a
community problem, and asserted
that one farmer by himself, if his
fields lie near other fields, can
cannot accomplish much by stalk
destruction.
This year he had some expert
ences along that line. On a two
horse farm which lay near fields
where stalks were not destroyed,
he made only three bales OF cot
ton. On his main fields in which
stalks had been destroyed he pro-
duced an average of more than
six bales 70 the blow. under the
same work and fertilizer given
the two horse farm.
Stalk destruction should he
done in September, certainly
not later than October Is, After
Ina; ;ma' me !+,e work VIII be unyali-
Fxpcri,,,e,,+s ,,,odo l.. A. go,
ernment have shown that where
stalks gre DESTROYED EIGHT weeks
nt.''e 'n'st q COTTON farmc'r VIII
ocro - M NJ ''' u,nI; esH TT
The irfostation where the stalks
ere DESTROYED sly weeks before
H~d four WOODS % IN * woe
vii ~ crorrN 70 ~'-in tho oron.