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DEATH TO WEEVILS | i c 1 4* Gets Fine Results From Caelum Arsenane and Molasses. CIKER mTELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES Boll Wdevils Cannot Withstand Applications of the Poison?Ten Cents Each Offered for Insects, But None Could Be Found. The following open letter has been issued by David R. Coker. well known , Ilnrtfh'iilc man, telling of his experi- 1 enees in using a mixture of calcium J arsenate and molasses In the fight ' ngair.st the weevil. During the past few days many farmers in this section have made tests with various mixtures of calcium ar- i senate and molasses and in every in' ?4 ?14,11 --.1. i t /-> m lltnr tlioi' ! aiance w.m wmui > um , , are delighted with the results. On our own plantations we have experimented I with several mixtures and ure now us- i ing a mixture of one-half gallon warm water in which is thoroughly mixed j one patlnd of calcium arsenate and j added to one-half gallon of black mo- j lasses. We have found a convenient j way to apply is to use a quart bottle which is/llled three-fourths full of the mixture. Cut a trench out of one side of the cork, reverse the bottle and ap- j ply to the. bud of the cotton by shaking i or plunging motion, dropping two or three 'tft-ops in the bud of the plant. Tills method requires less of the mixture to the acre and keeps it thoroughly Agitated all the time. Wc And that none'bf the mixture should be c irried i over night as?it is hard to mix the next morning. No more should be mixed than can be used during the day and it should be thoroughly stirred before pcuring into the liotlles (or buckets if the mop is used). -Mr. nanaoipn uuiespte uppntu mc molasses mixture to three different fields on .the 12th, 13th and the 14th. This morning (16th) he spent more than an hour in these fields searching for weevils. lie found no live wievils and no recently punctured squares. There were many weevils in the fields before the poison was applied. Mr. J. L. Jordan was picking about j fifty weevils per acre from his fields before poisoning. He poisoned on the j 8th and 9th and on the 12th and 13th. He sqnf hands into the fields to pick i weevils and the hands could find no weevils. Mr. Jordan and Mr. Middle- ; ton went into the fields themselves and looked for some time and could find . none. ? ( On Monday the 12th instant, wo poi- j soned the field near the Pedigreed Seed company's gin and warehouses in which numerous weevils had been ob- > served. On Wednesday we sent about j iweniy nanus jnio mis neiu, outruns; them two cents for each live woeyil.; A few quit promptly on not finding any weevils. About fifteen, however, kept looking- for some time, but none found a weevil after going over about seven acres. Mr. Sharpo, who was in charge of the gang, raised the price to five cents per weevil, but still failed to find any. Later the price was advanced to ten cents per weevil, and not a single ;j^and found a weevil after searching for two hours. Mr. George J. Wilds, plant breeder of the Pedigreed Seed company, carried out the following experiments during the past week: i.?f, Teat No. 1. At 1 p. m., on the 10th instant, nine hills of cotton were treated wit i the molasMs' mixture. There are two plants in each hill, and only one of the plants in each hill was treated. Twenty-one weevils were placed on these nine hills, about one-half being placed on the poisoned plants and the rest on the unpoisoned plants. At 6 p. m., the i nine hills were examined, with the re- I ? u i!..i ii^.wi ,.rnA QUIl if lei I SIX giving UIH1 SIX uvau nccvils were found on the treated plants. ! At 2 p. m., on the 12th the same plants were examined again and two live and ! eight dead weevils were found. At 9 a. m., on the 14th the plants were again examined and no live weevils) and ten dead ones were found. As [ weevils move considerably at this season it is assumed that all thai remained on the treated hills were destroyed within the test i>criod. The mixture used in this test was one-half gallon water, one gallon molasses and two pounds calcium arsenate. Test No. 2. At 1 p. m.. on the 10th instant, ten hills were treated with the following mixture: Might gallons of water, three gallons of molasses and ten pounds calcium arsenate. And on the ten hills twenty weevils were placed. At (! p.m. on the same day. four living and five dead weevils were found. At 2 p. m., on the 12th, two living and seven dead weevils were found. At 9 a. m., on the 14th, one live weevil and eight dead ones were found. Mixture used above Is very ugni ana uries up quicKiy. Test No. 3. Same mixture was used on test No. 3, under about the same conditions, and 73 per cent of the weevils succumbed. Test No. 4. In test No. 4 a mixture of five gallons of molasses, five gallons of water, and seven and a half pounds of calcium arsenate was used on five hills. At 8 a. m., on the 13th. no living and four dead weevils were found. On the 14th, a shower having fallen during the night of the 13th, another search for weivils was made and three additional dead and no lives ones were found. The results of these experiments seem to show that where a liquid containing at hast half molasses and at least three-fourths of a pound of calcium arsenate per gallon is used, 100 per cent mortality occurs wlthi'i four days. The fact that a good m:.ny of the weevils placed on the plaats were unaccounted for does not modify the value of the experiments as our experimenters observed some weevils to fly away immediately on being placed on a plant. The cotton surrounding these experi- ( ments had not been treated with poi- j son of any kind. I have two letters front Mr. G. M. Norris of Vuncc, Orangeburg county, S. C.t who last year applied on or about June 10 a mixture of one and one-half pounds of calcium arsenate and one quart of hot water mixed, with one gallon of molasses. He stirred the water and arsenate for 30 minutes be rore mixing wun me imuussra anu iij?- i plied wittf a mop. He says one man or | boy can ar;,ly to four acres per day. j He gathered 900 pounds of seed cotton j per acre and only made two hundred to I four hundred pounds per acre on the ! balance of the farm. He does not consider this test positively conclusive, owing to the fact that he had no untreated cotton in the field with treated cotton. He is confident that the poison was responsible for his comparative success in a section which was almost wiped out,by the weevils last year. The cost of the mixture, Mr. Norris says, was twenty to twentyfive cents per acre. All the farmers who have reported on the use of the mixture in this section agree that the cost is between 15 and 25 cents for materials. Mr. Norris reports that most of the farmers in his section are using the molassescalcium arsenate mixture this year, and so far as he has heard they are pleased with the results. I cannot be certain that by the use of calcium arsenate-molasses treatment any farmer will make a crop of eat ton and I ran nnlv be sure that Utl der the weather conditions we have had here since May 30 that the vast majority of the weevils have been killed and that few weevils are left in the treated fields and few punctured squares are appearing. The cost of the application is so slight and the results appear so manifest that I feel that every farmer can ill afford not to invest 20 cents per acre per application for this treatment, and apply it several times at intervals of a week or ten days. There Is not the slightest question that millions of weevils have already been killed by this treatment during the past ten days and it stands to reason that this has done some good. &F The old home of Daniel Boono in Kentucky is falling to pieces. It has withstood the elements for nearly 200 years anil is slowly tailing to ruin from lack of care. One room contains a large fireplace of stones still in good condition. The doors and shutters of the dwelling are hung on wrought iron hinges, but many of the windows are broken, permitting snow and rain to enter and causing the floor to decay, it?'Pictures were flashed from Italian to American battleships by wireless recently in a test off the coast of Italy. The Italian navy has purchased the Inventor's method and transmission apparatus and is planning to install machines on .navy vessels. ATTACKS SECRETARY HOOVER ^ . ? Senator Thomas E. Watson of Georgia charges Secretary Hoover with having aided in efforts to overthrow the Soviet and restore the Czarist Government in Russia. He also charged that food distributed through relief organizations of which Hoover was the head, and which was intended to go to the stricken people of Europe had been permitted to decay on wharves or in vessels through lack of proper adminisi tration, MINERS ROUNDED UP BY MYSTERIOUS NEW DRUG Scientists Get Hold of it After Search of Seventy Years. The stra ige and powerful drug that has drawn explorers into the wilds of Brass" and Bolivia for more than seventy years at last has been discovered. The fact was reycaled Thursday by Dr. Henry H. Itusby, dean of the College of Pharmacy of Columbia University, and Dr. Orland K. White, curator of plant breeding in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, who headed the H. K. Mulford biological expedition that returned recently from South America. For years Dr. Rushy said, scientists had heard seemingly mythical tales about this drug, which is used by certain South American natives before they enter battle, because it gives them courage. This drug, according to Dr. Rushy, is known as caapi by the Indians, and also as ayawasco. A small quantity of it was obtained with difficulty hy Dr. White, who sryd it is a most powerful narcotic, and will be studied to determine whether it has any therapeutic value in medicine. Dr. Rusby said: "The drug is prepared from the root and bark of the. ayawasco vine, which grows over the trees, attaining a height of twenty to forty-feet. PrepI Get Him t i MR. FARMER:? v The Boll Weevil is rigli V " . - > T , . YorK county, ino aouot auout *|* before he does us. I LOOK Fi Y *:* Soon in the morning and lai ? breakfast and he likes supper Y ner if the sun is hot. WATCH THE ( ? If they are dark the Weevil is ;!* He won't be on many buds ii ? pick the dark ones. | DON'T ? Kill Him Before the Square ( ? damage before the square co Now. | FIRST NATIONAL 1 THE FRIEND OF THE FA HOME OF FT * J. H- SAYE, President '? SHARON, I For I Ye THIS BANK HAS 1 keep the Best intei YORK COUNTY | Field of Endeavor I WE ARE ALWAYS i z | TO RENDER a E crs of this County t glad to lend our Se t try and enterprise. ! JOIN THE MANY HUNDREDS OF I that this Rank lias age of a Banking ? I Valuable. ! BANK OF THE OLD 7 M. L. SMITH, President % JAS. A. PAGE, Cashier I \& Miss SALLIE SIFFORD, Asst. Cas LSafety Satisfi ' ?.\ n * ' >. r ' - guards. I I arntion of the drug is attended by. elaborate ceremonial rites, on which women may not gaze. If a woman ever witnesses this ceremony, or partakes of the drug, she is put to death/ "It is administered only by the tribal cupbearer on the eve of battle. When taken, the drug produces a conv vulsivc trembling, the blood leaves the face and a deadly pallor follows. A few minutes later, however bloo<i" returns to the face and with it a super-human courage that causes the drinker to have no fear of the enemy,Later, the drug produces a sleep In which occurs dreams of courageous deeds." ' Dr. Rusby explained that he was 2,000 miles from Colombia and had. despaired of obtaining' a specimen of this drug, when Dr. White came across it by chance in a tribe of Indians in -Bolivia. Dr. Whtte said the natives take the bark, the root and woody part of this ayawosco vinie and brew it as we would ordinary tea. X "It is very hdrd to get any of the bark or roots," be went on, "because the Indians believe this vine to have supernatural powers because of its strange influence over them during times of danger. It was seventy years ago that a British explorer first1 heard of the vine and its stranfce properties. But this will be the flr.-^ time that Now? \ | it on the job in this section of j it and it is up to us to do him a DR HIM I te in the evening. He likes X ; But he doesn't carc for din- X COTTON BUDS | right in them. Get him then. I*! a a field if you are careful to X i DELAY | Worries. He can't do much X mes. Be diligent. Get Him X SANK OF SHARON 1 RMER \ VE PER CENT INTEREST | J. S. HARTNESS, Cashier & - - 8. C. ? Y WWWWVMMMMAMMftWWW Many ars { 5 ENDEAVORED to f rests of CLOVER and in the Front Lines of its I GLAD | eal Service to the Farm- I and in fact we are always | rvice to any Legal Indus- | SATISFIED Customers and thus obtain advant- I Service that is Really CLOVER | RELIABLE S. A. SIFFORD, Vic# President $ F. L. McELWEE. Asst. Cashier | shier JNO. R. HART, Attorney <|1 action Service | I Scientists have had opportunity to tr.afte any tests as to its value for medicinal purposes."?New York Herald. A Welcome Change.?Wife: Georgo, I've got a lot o("\things I wish to talk t,o you about. Husband: Good! Yoii generally tjfnril to, talk to me about a lot of tilings you hhven't got. . t ' ' >TAV The trumpeter, who blew the: Meburge" when the "Light Brigade" j rh<le up to the guns at Balnklava, re- | e.fptly died in Liverpool. He possessed ltf medals for valor and is believed to lant six hundred." j THE CASH GARAGE : y 13 IN POSITION TO DO YOUR AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND WtLUIINU wunrv mi itiuoi REASONABLE PRICES. YOU SAVE MONEY P.Y PAYING CASH. Expert Workmen REPAIR your car when you bring It to this Garage for Repairs. WE CARRY k . / A ({ill line of Automobile Accessories 1 THE CASH GARAGE J. 8. JOINER, MANAGER AT THE OLD CITY HALL EAST LIBERTY STREET Say, Don't Do It! DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE Indigestion. Smile about it. If your lAlte trimmings are not agreeing with your digestion, try Duying your uruCertes at this Store. We do not sell anything but the best in Groceries? XPu are sure to get Quality Groceries \Chen you buy your supplies at this store. Tell us what you want?if you itb'W?or better still, COMK AND SUE WHAT WE HAVE?Tlven you'll know lttst what you want. HlF YOU WANT anything In the way of Canned Vegetables, or Fruits, or Meats, or Fish Products, or Bottled or Loose Pickles, Bottled Fruits, or ?ancy Cakes and Crackers, Fresh Vegetables?Beans, Cabbage, Potatoes?it is pretty sure you'll find what you are looking for here. Then too we have a good variety of Dried Beans and Peas and the Fat Back that goes with 'em. CfTEER UP?you'll get over it if you will buy your Groceries here. f SHERER & QUINN CANE SEED SURELY, YOU, MR. FARMER, are going to make sure of plenty of forage for your stock and your cattle by sow ing a part 01 your Miuuuiu innun m Cane. It is an almost sure crop and one that you'll have plenty cf use for before the year is gone. See me for ORANGE AND AMBER CANE SEED, KING STEEL CULTIVATORS, PLOW STEEL AND ALSO FOR COTTON HOES. I All WAYS HAVE \ OBELISK FLOUR fTlie. Flour that pleases and satisfies the most discriminating housewife? rrr always pleases. SEE ME FOR YOUR MILL FEED. SWEET FEED and also for . FRESH COUNTRY GROUND 00UN MEAL. J. F. CARROLL \! it umiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiitiiiiiH ( catholic books ( I* 5 5 sent free on application. = s s,<}et your information j;fjrst hand. E E E questions answered by = s matl. E i I = write to = | REV. W. A. TOBIN So i ; Saint Anne's Church : ROCK HILL, S. C. ITi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiT PROFESSIONAL CARDS Dr. C. L. WOOTEN -DENTISTOFFICE OVER THE POSTOFFICE Telephones: Office, 128; Residence, 93 V1JV T XJ JLVj - Ml w. 71 t. f. 6m J. S. BRICE Attorney At Law. Prompt Attention to all Lega! Business of Whatever Nature. Office on Main Street in the Moore Building, First Floor, formerly occupied by S. E. Spencer. J. A. Marion W. G. Finley MARION AND FINLEY ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office opposite the Courthouse. Phono 126. YORK.S. C. YORK FURNITURE CO. Undertakers ? 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