Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-30
Poison and Work

Caught III inc lllluoI VI tliS SiSUN
conflagration which wiped out
thousands of homes in Atlanta.
The flames were on all sides,
jumping like demons from roof
to roof, licking up in their hum
cry jaws howell and mansion
alike.
Men and women were frantic.
Those with insurance were she'd
ding tears that they had not
taken our more on their house
hold goods and buildings. The
poor fellows who had no insur-
ance were frantic.
Had FIRE insurance agent
offered these imperiled people
insurance he could have charg-
ed any rate, no matter how high,
and gotten it.
Down on some of the streets
men said, The flames will new
er reach me here" and they re-
fused to move their household
effects. An hour later all their
possessions had gone up in
smoke and flaming cinders.
When thinking of the cotton
farmer who fails or refuses to
use poison, we thought of those
stricken Atlantans.
Verify, the boil weeviI is as
potent as the Atlanta flames. In
a few weeks the weevil will be
sweeping all before him. Your
insurance is POISON-calcium
arsenate.
The premium is low, consid-
ering the risk you must run
without poison. There are some
who will simply neglect to poi
son, resembling the Atlanta
man who failed to insure. There
are others Who will say that the
weevil will not get him, and he
viii wait too long, as the fellows
did who refused to move their
goods.
In Saturdays paper we quot
ed one of the largest planters
in Sumter county as saying that
early poisoning means prospect
ty in Sumter county.
He has raised cotton for
many years. He has watched
the crops that were poisoned
and those that were not. IF any
man knows, certainly he should.
Heres what l.. C. Council said
to the cotton farmers of Sum-
ter:
Poisoning early and thorough
" is the one method whereby
Sumter county farmers can
make normal cotton crop this
year despite the boil weevil
We have raised just as much
cotton ever since the advent of
the, boil weevil as before; the
trouble is, the weevil gets too
much of the staple. The farm
ers should realize this and begin
their fight early enough to defeat
the weeviI this year. want TO
see every farmer in Sumter
county use calcium arsenate lib
orally IN the cotton fields. and
want this work to begin Just as
as soon as the tine is propi-
tious.
was greatly impressed with
the advice given farmers bv DIR.
DeLoach in his talk here few
days ago, and / sincerely wish
that every farmer in the county
would profit by his experiment
10 my mind, the one essential to
the production of a normal cot
ton crop in Sumter county is
early and thorough poisoning.
But poisoning is the most i'm
poftant of any operation in the
entire program of cotton farming
under boil weeviT conditions,
Nothing should be permitted to
interfere with regular and thor
ough poisoning, especially early
IN the season. Three to five
pounds of calcium arsenate to the
acre should be sufficient, and
this keeps the cost well within
reason.
Boil weevil control is now past
the experimental stage; calcium
arsenate, it has been demonstrat-
ed beyond doubt, viii kill the
weevils whenever and wherever
it is properly applied.
We are told that the cost
PER ACRE for poison is LOW
insurance. Evidently it is, or
those who are so emPhatically
for it, would not recommend
poison to the farmers of Sum-
ter.
A large cotton crop in Sum-
ter this fall will put both farm
er and merchant back on his
feet. Once again we shall
know prosperity after three long
hard years.
Our soil is the best in the