Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-05-07
AIRPLANE BUSTING
DEMONSTR
HERE TOMORROW
Demonstration of busting Will Take
Place South of City on Friday Aft
ernoon, May 9th

The demonstration of airplane dust
ing which will be held at the Dunn
place on the southern edge of town
FIR day afternoon, May 9th, has ar
ouscd such interest in this vicinity
that preparations are being made to
handle record crowd. The Huff Da-
land Busters, Inc, the company who
will stage the demonstration, whose
headquarters are in Macon, will oper-
ate nine airplane bases in the south
this year. According to a telegram re-
ceived at the home office of the COM
pany yesterday, contracts have been
closed in the Delta region of Mississ-
ippi and Louisiana for the busting of
$4,000 acres of delta land which will
mean that at least three bases will be
established in that section.
1t is thought that three bases will
also be established in Georgia, one in
Alabama and one in North Carolina.
The exact location of any but the bas-
es for Miss. and La, has not as yet
been determined and it will be neces-
sary for the farmers of this vicinity
to help the busting company as much
as possible in order to determine whet
her or not it will be possible to es-
tablish a base of two airplanes in this
section. For this purpose there is
coupon printed in this issue of the
Leader which should be filled out by
all interested parties.
The airplane busting company thru
their general manager, George B.
Post who will give a short talk after
the demonstration has been held, say
that there is such a great amount of
preparatory work that must be done
before unit can be established in a
section, such as the photographing of
the fields and the arranging for sup
plies of gasoline and poison and many
other things that take time and much
effort and must be on hand before it
will be possible to do any busting.
The company is able to furnish bond,
they will dust efficiently and when the
farmer wants it but this protection to
the farmer who uses this service is
predicated entirely on the fact that all
things necessary for the establishing
of base such as gasoline, planes and
! pilots etc are on hand and in order to
make the proper arrangements it is
necessary for the Huff Daland Dust
ers, Inc, to have all their plans ar
ranged in advance. 1t will therefore be
very helpful to the company if the
farmers will come prepared to say that
they will or will not want the SER
vice and the company will be able to
lay their plans with finality one way
or the other. There will be of course
no contracts signed at this demonstra-
ton but it will be established wheth-
err there will be sufficient acreage to
establish base here and then the ex-
animation of the fields as to the 10
cation and whether they contain any
features which will stand in the way
of the airplane doing the busting, will
be made and the company will be able
to tell the interested parties in very
short time whether they can do the
job. Once these steps are taken the
any furnishes a bond. that the busting
ner to the satisfaction of the farmer
and when the farmer wants it,
AS will be seen at the demonstra-
superiority of the airplane as wea-
periority is due to several reasons.
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Grafton. The plane can dust from three
hundred to one thousand acres per
hour and as a result it is able to save
by the instantaneous application of
the poison, much of the cotton which
the pest. Another advantage of the
plane is the method by which the dust
is emitted. There is a mechanism that
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from 600 to 1000 lbs of arsenate. This
is operated by the wind from the
propeller and the dust is blown out
at the rate of 200 miles an hour and
with such terrific force that it is thor
oughly pulverized and closely resem-
bles smoke screen 1t is forced down
on the plant and completely covers all
parts of it. Another advantage of the
plane is its ability to operate under all
weather conditions especially after
rain when the weevil is most active,
and when the ground busting is gen.
orally impossible.
There will be many advantages in
the use of the airf&ane busting but one
which is significant is seen in the fact
that it will be unnecessary where the
airplane service is used to depend on
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the training of labor for ground dust
ing. The protection of the crops which
is so essential if the investment which
the farmer has put into the cultiva
ton, is to be protected will be carried
on by people who can guarantee their
work and are able to furnish bond to
that eject One of the most unsatis-
factory condition therefore with which
the farmer has had to deal with will
be eliminated and night busting with
all its accompanying hazards will be
thing of the past. The airp1ane can
do 100 per cent job when it ought
to be done and the way it ought to
be done 1t is a question of two hum
bred horse power against two horse
power. 1t is a case of known per-
Torrance as proved and developed by
government experts against unknown
and and uncertain labor. 1t is case
of doing the job so thoroughly that
even insurance can be obtained against
the weevil where the airplane is used
and a bond furnished guaranteeing
weevil control as compared to the
highly uncertain business of doing
good job by ground busting.