The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, March 02, 1904, Page 6, Image 6
OL?) KING
Will Fall Under Atty
Columbia
War against the boll weevil. That
is ?he cry of thc roiled States depart
ment of agriculture. And war was
never conducted in such manner SH
will bc done in this crusade. The
way tu exterminate the boll weevil is
to do away with those things upon
which ho preys. The removal of cot
ton as the "money crop" of the South
means the necessity of finding nome
other means of making a livelihood.
Aud thus the need of a diversification
farm to teach thc farmers how to
plant, wit a L to plant, when to plant,
how much to plant and when lo obtain
thc products.
There was a gathering of thc most
representativo fanners of Richland
County at the city hall yesterday, and
thc plans for thc diversification farm
were discussed in a way which deep
ened thc interest which had Leen felt
in the first announcement of tho coin
ing'of thc representative of thc de
partment of agriculture. Dr. W. ?1.
Spillruan, the agrostologist, is no
stranger in this State, having first
come here at tho invitation of thc late
Congressman Stokes to speak to tho
farmers of the Seventh Congressional
District, and he has made other trips
to tho State in the interest of diversi
fied agriculture. But tho diversifi
cation which has been recommended
in thc psst was to prevent the farmers
from an overproduction of cotton,
which for a d?cade brought suoh a
miserably poor price. Now, it seems,
that the boll weevil has accomplished
that which thinking farmers have
boen trying to do for years-to' get
the South as a section interested in
something other than cotton, not a
substitute for cotton, but in addition
to tho staple produot.
As had been announced in Tho
State, Dr. Spillman came hero to
speak of the diversification farm to be
located near the city on lauds of Mr.
F. II. Hyatt. Dr. Spillman and his
auditors became HO much eugrosscd in
tho general discussion of tho boll
weevil and its menace to the South
that he had very little to say of thc
plans upon which he will work the
farm near Columbia. Ho is very
proud of this undertaking and culls
the farm of Mr. Hyatt's place "Diver
sification Farm No. 1," because Mr.
Hyatt was the first to consent to let s
part of his farm be used by the govern'
ment. When the government appro
priated 1250,000 for the extermina
tion of tho boll weevil by tho indirect
method of starving it out, a certain
sum was sot asido for the oonduot of
these practical farms to show how
crops may be diversified with profit.
Dr. Spillman was then given the ad
dress of a number of prominent farm
ers of tho South, and wrote io each
of thom asking if the government
could be given the uso of a certain
portion of his farm fer tho purpose
' When the butter won't
come put a penny in the
churn," is an old time dairy
proverb. It often seems to
?work though no one has ever
told why.
When mothers are worried
because the children do not
gain strength and flesh we
say give them Scott's Emul
sion.
It is like the penny in the
milk because it works and
because there is something
astonishing about it.
Scott's Emulsion is simply
a milk of pure cod liver oil
with some hypophosphites
especially prepared for delicate
stomachs.
Children take to it naturally
because they " like the taste
and the remedy takes just as
naturally to the children be
cause it is so perfectly adapted
to their wants. 1
For all weak and pale and
thin children Scott's Emulsion
is the most satisfactory treat
ment
We will send you
the penny, /. e., a
J sample free.
Be tara that thts picton ta
the form ot a label ia oa the
wrapper of every Iq ttl a cl
Emuulon you buy. r" '
SCOTT ? BOWNE,
/ Chemists,
409 Pc*rl St., N. Y..
?J SOcnnd^l.oo; aUclruarUtc
COTTON.
ck? ol'Bol l Weevil.
State.
named. As the boll weevil is so much
moro destructive in Texas than any
where else, it wan decided to estab
lish in that great State 1<'? of thc sta
tions, and as the pest has made its
appearance in western Louisiana there
will he five stations in that State.
Thc others will be divided as fol
lows: Mississippi Jd, Alabama 3, Geor
gia 2, South Carolina li, and 1 in the
cotton growing section of Florida.
This ?a thc lir.st station which Pr.
S pi ll ni au iias visited and from here he
goes to tho other places where the
farmers will he given an exemplifica
tion of thc doctrine preached hy The
State for HO many years - that thc
South can get along without cotton as
"tho money crop."
Io prefacing his remarks Dr. Spill
man said that agriculture is the basis
of tho wealth of this country. The
products annually amount to over live
billion dollars. Large business con
cerns employ thc best talent obtain
able. It is not so with agriculture
where capital is not massed. If agri
culture is to have the benefit of scien
tific research thc government must
bring this bencat *.o tho farmers.
At tho risk of being considered ex
travagant, but in all sincerity, ho de
clared that tho southern half of tho
United States has a climate which in
time will enable it to become thc lead
ing agricultural section of tho world.
The South will lead in agricultural
production when all of her opportun
ities aro improved. The soil hero
will grow a great variety of crops and
for a longer period than auy other sec
tion of the country.
Tho government spends less than
auy other in encouraging tho farmers.
The present endeavors aro not over
doing tho matter. Ile told how the
government had spent half a million
dollars in ntaaiping out a disease
among thc cattle Recently it had
appropriated $250,000-not to fight
thc boll weevil, for that is a useless,
j hopeless fight-but to pr?vido other
means by which farmers may live
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v. v ? IIUV mu mi^ubV.Ov |UUU(IUII*
ity that the boll weevil will bc entire
ly eradicated. The government is
fully justified in spending millions of
dollars to meet tho invasion of the
boll weevil and to teach the farmers
of this oection to engage in other
i kinds of farming,
When Dr. Spillman took up the
question of the boll weevil he was
asked if the pest would get as far as
South Carolina. In giving enlighten
ment on this subject the speaker de
parted from his regular line of thought
but gave somo very interesting state
ments. Most emphatically the boll
weevil will como into South Carolina
and will come to destroy. Wherover
it has made its appearance the coun
try has been blighted and a bale of
cotton could not bo gotten from 25
acres of tho most fertile laud. In
reply to a question he stated that it
would be unsafe to buy oats or any
thing else shipped from tho oountry
infeotcd with tho weevil, whioh has
now gotten into tho southern part of
the Indian Territory and the western
part of Louisiana.
For a long time the government
saw what was coming r.nd o ndeavored
to get the Legislature of Texas to pass
a lawj* preventing any ootton from
being planted on a strip of land 200
miles wide along the Rio Grande river,
for the pest had made its appearance
in Mexico and wan devastating the oot
ton crops there. But no precaution
ary methods were adopted and now
the entire State of Texas is plsgue
ridden.Dlt has been reported that
40,000 farmers are preparing to leave
the State of Texas and all on account
of the weevil, whioh has ruined their
crops. Ho cited an instanco of a far
mer in the very best of circumstances
who had been reduced to abject pov
erty and would havo suffered but for a
littlo poultry yard which his provi
dent wife was running.
The[boll weevil stays under cover of
the woods until in July, said Dr.
Spillman, and when tho midsummer
bring? the "forms" of embryo bolls to
the cotton plant the weevil begins his
depredations. The pest is about a
quarter of an inch in length"and has
a bill half as long again as himself.
With this bill and its point, whioh is
like a oiroular ssw, the bug attacks
the tender. Jlittlo bolls, and after bor
ing a round hole into the form depos
its an eggjwhich is covered over with
a kind of wax. The egg in avery
short timej produces a worm whioh
feeds upon the interior of the eotton
boll until the vermin develops into a
fall fledged boll weevil and goes upon
the rounds of attaoking eotton bolls.
Dr. Spillman emphasised the feet thal
the pestos Bure to spread and that in
three or?fonrfyears it will take South
?Carolina, i
Tba wsy.to extermi naiejhe c*dlm ry
pepi \- by Unding another bug which
will devour tho weevil, as wan ?Jone in
California when tho orange trees wert
attacked hy a seale ?ouse. Tho eu tu
nion "lady bug" waa put ou the trail
of thu scale vermin arni in a short
time thc pest was driven out. But
there is nothing known to science
which will exterminate the boll wee
vil. It cannot be reached with spray,
for the real instrument of destruction
is within the boll where the poison
would ruin thc fibre as well as the ver
min.
The only hope of growing cotton
with any success in an infected terri
tory is to get a very early variety and
plant it very carly, and even then half
the bolls would bo ruined by thc wee
vil.
Thc price of cotton is driving farm
ers to increase their acreage. The
time may como when cotton will bc at
such a high price that half a crop will
pay. Tho object of this movement is
not to displaco cotton entirely, but to
give the fanner something additional
to rely upon. The boll weevil cannot
be fought wi.h a spray, hut a third of
i he appropriation has been set aside
as a fund with which to make experi
ments against thc boll weevil. In
Louisiana an effort is being made by
thc government to raise a crop despite
tho boll weevil, the government ex
pecting to get half a crop developed
before thc weevil gets to work and
then to cut down every stalk and burn
it and plow up the land carefully.
Thc early varieties are not so good as
a rule becauso they drop the fruit too
easily.
Dr. Weber, who has been conduct
ing hybridization around Columbia for
several years, will try to breed up im
proved varieties of early cotton. The
department of entomology has discov
ered varieties which ate not vulnera
ble to "root rot" and "wilt disease,'
I and is now working on "rust." Thc
"wilt" is caused by tho water voins ic
the plant being stopped up by som?
kind of fungus.
In regard to the work which Ur
Weber has been doing hero in coonee
tion with Mr. R. C. Keenan and otb
era, Dr. Spillman spoke in terms o
commendation, but that is an experi
ment farm and tho new venture is ;
farm to teach methods.
Dr. Spillman then told of the man
uer in which the quniter of a millio
appropriation would be expended
One-third would be given to tho dc
part mont of entomology to find som
very early plant which could be mad
vigorous. Another third has bee
set aside for the purposo of makin
experiments to see if tho pest can b
exterminated by the use of any othc
bug or otherwise.
Of the remainder $20,000 has bee
set aside for the diversification (
Southern agriculture. This, in hi
mind, ii) whe remedy for the boll we<
vii. In order to induoe mon to let tl
government have the use of a part <
their farms, the seed and half of tl
fertilisers will be furnished. The:
farms are not experiment stations bi
are being run solely for profit and t
exhibit approved methods. The go'
eminent wants to take advantage i
local experience. He had not con
hero to tell Mr. Hyatt what to do, bi
to get his neighbors to assist him, ac
for that reason they would have
board of directors.
There is a fino market for farm pn
ducts right hero in South Oarolii
where there aro so many mills, bi
from bleak and barren Now Eoglat
many commodities aro shipped id
the State whereas they could be raise
here much oheaper and sold at betti
profit than cotton.
He had looked over Mr. Hyatt
farm and is very much pleased. ?
does not expeot aa much suooesB fro
any other of these farms as he do<
from this one in Columbia.
He then told that in the fall ho wi
establish another diversification far
in this State, perhaps in Spartanbur,
where the oharaoter of the soil is di
ferent, and during the progress of tl
farm work he wants criticisms, COD
plimentary or otherwise, just so tb<
are helpful.
In .order to exhibit the manner i
which he will go about operating tbei
diversification farms, he exhibit!
oharts showing tho work to be dono (
a 30-aore traot in Texas. He ncooun
cd for every item of cost and for evci
estimated item of receipts, althoug
ho declared that the estimates in tl
I itter case were really a little low*
than the receipts would he, judging I
past experience. He accounted f<
every pound of provender whioh won
be obtained, showing the percents
whioh would be used and the part tb
would be sold.
On this farm of 33 aores he ?ron
have 10 dairy cows, 2 young o attie, :
hogs and 2 mules. He would pla
alfalfa for the hogs, ono aoro suppoi
ioglO hogs, and 6 additional acres
this succulent food for hay for tl
cattle, the hay hoing tho best ste
food in the world, ?ud entirely t
rioh before ouring. His farm won
be divided into ll aerea for permano
orops and 22 to bo used alternately t
summer and foi ?inter orops. Of ti
II aores for permanent crops the di
t ribo ti eu would be 7 a area for alf al
and 4 for Bermuda. Of thc summ
oropa tne> plant'ng would >>*. aa f<
low?: l!J acres in corn and pcm, 1
acre ii' sorghum and 1 acre in peas
altino. Tho winter distribution would
'>.: aal? and vciou J acres, barley 17>
aeren and rape \\ acres. The estima
ted income would be : milk, -gallons
daily from each of 10 cows. >'S10 , hay
$120 ; 1 calves, ?20 ia very low ligure,
bc declared) ; 10 IIOKS at 150 pounds
each, $112; total, $1,062. Ile cited
this juHt to show what is possible
when a man plants his crop to suit his
lands.
In regard to the farm near Colum
bia, he said it would cost less to run
it in diversified crops than it would in I
cotlou. There would be no chickens j
or fruits raised ou the diversified
farms for thc .first year or BO. Ile
gave an iustance of what had been
produced on 13 acres of land on just
such soil as Mr. Hyatt's place, aud
predicted au entire success for the
new venture. As another illustration,
he told of a "hog" farm which he has
mapped out for a place in Texas. Ile
would put 70 hogs on this farm and
expects an income of $1,231.
Wonted to Wear his Felt Hut to Fun
eral. '
Washington, Feb. 20.-Judge Bart
lett, of Georgia, who was one or the
members of the House appointed by
the Speaker to accompany tho body of
Senator Hanna to Cleveland and to
attend the funeral, for the first time
io his life wore a silk hat.
Thc Judge has always been a devo
tee of the felt hat ; ho believes it is
as essential to Democracy as the Con
stitution itself. In his country the
"glossy lid" is as much despised ns a
rattlesnake, and just about as ooaree.
Thc Judge's political future would be
a blank were he to go to Georgia be
neath one of these evidences of inod
oro civilization, but, nevertheless.ghe
wore one on this occasion.
The Judge had on his characteristic
wool hat and was en route to the sta
tion when he encountered big "Jim"
Mo Andrer, s, a Democratic colleague
from Chicago.
"Great beavens, Judge ; you're not
going to wear that blank old wool hat
to the funeral, are you?" exclaimed
McAndrows.
"Sure, sir," replied the Judge.
"Why, sir, I never wore any other
kind of hat in my life, and I'm too old
to take up n ?v fads now, sir."
"I'll be damned," circulated Mc
Andrews, who is not given to the use
of profanity except under great provo
cation, "if I'll let you disgraoo your
self and lock like a* tramp amo'?g ?
party of gentlemen. Why every other
man in the party will have on a silk
hat, and you'll look like the devil in
that thing you wear."
For fifteen minutes the big Chica
goan argued the matter with the Geor
gi an, and finally out the disoussion
;.hort by calling a messenger and send
ing to his hotel for a discarded silk
hat of his own, and when it was
brought to him he insisted that Judge
Bartlett wear it.
Stops Cough and Works off the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No
Pay- Price 2D cents.
Daniel Webster's Brother.
Secretary Root, on the day he sail
od for England on the Celtio to aot as
a member of thc Alaake boundary
commission, told an interesting story
of Daniel Webster's boyhood.
"Little 'Dan' and his youngor broth
er," said Mr. Root, "had eaoh been
given some money. They started out
gleefully, and it WQB evening before
they got baok home.
" 'Well, Dan,' said the senior Web
ster, 'what did you do with your mon
ey?'
" 'Spent it,' the boy answered,
sturdily.
" 'And how about you? What did
you do with your money?' the father
asked the younger brother.
'* k? lent it to Dan,' was the reply."
-New York Tribune.
- mw m m-M
- Ooee in a while a man tells
Satan to get behind him, hoping that
Satan's push will provida him with ah
exouse.
Judge uud Limy ers.
The judge had had his patience j
sorely tried by lawyers who wished lo |
talk and by roen who tried to evade
jury Bcrvioe. Between hypothetical
questions and excuses it seemed as if
they never would get to the actual
trial of the case. So wheo the puz
zled little German who had been ac
cepted by both sides jumped up, the
Judge was exasperated.
"Shudge!" cried thcGernran.
"What is it?" demanded ihp Judge.
"I think I like togo home to my
wife," said the German.
"Y'ou can't," rctorled tho Judge.
"Sit down."
"But, Shudge," persisted the Ger
man, "I don't tink I make a good
shuter."
"You're tho beet in thc box," said
toe Judge. "Sit down.".
"What box?" asked the German.
"The jury box," said the Judge.
"Oh, I thought it was a bad box
that peoples gets in somedimes."
"No," said the Judge; "thc bad
oox is thc prisoner's box."
"But, Shudge," persisted thc little
Gcrmau; "I don't speak good Eng
lish."
"You won't have *.o speak any at
all." said the Judge. "Sit down."
The little German pointed at the |
lawyers to make his last desperate
plea.
"Shudge," he said, "I can't make
noddings out of what these fellers
say."
It was the Judge's cbanoe to get
even for many annoyances.
"Neither can anyone else," ho said.
"Sit down."
With a sigh the little German sat
down.
Early Breakfast.
After a strenuous journey through
Hart County, during which ho rode
many miles in a buggy, Speoial Pen
sion Examiner E. S. McIntyre has re
turned with a story illustrating the
courtesy cf Kentucky fermera.
After dark one night Gol. McIntyre
drove up to a farm house, and after
pounding on the door with his buggy
whip, finally aroused the f anno who
had been sleeping.
"Can I get a bed and an early
breakfast?" he said. ?
"Yes, we can give you a bod and I
reckon an carly breakfast too."
All hands went to sleep but Col.
Molutyre.
He had some papers to look over,
uud at midnight lurscd in. Is what
seemed to him ten minutes later after
he had gone to sleep he was awakened
by knocking on the door. He reaohed
for his trusty weapon, at the same
time wondering what burglars wero
doing abroad among the farms ,of Hart
County.
"Get np in there!" a voice shouted.
"It's gittiog up time. Yonr breakfast
is ready."
Col. McIntyre arose in the? dark,
slowly dressed, and carno into the
breakfast room.
"What time is it?" he asked.
"It's about 2 o'clock, I reckon."
"Well, what the thunder do you
mean by waking me at 2 o'clock?"
"Didn't you say you wanted an
early breakfast?" said the farmer,
with deep concern.
Col. McIntyre ate his breakfast in
silenoe.-Louisville Herald.
By Elimination.
One day, as Pat halted at the top
of the river bank, says the Christian
Advocate, a man, famous for his in
quisitive mind, stopped and asked ;
"How long have you hauled water
for the village, my good man?"
"Tin years, sor."
"Ahl How many.loads do yon take,
in a day?" ;
"From tin to fifteen, sor."
"Ah, yosl Now I have a problem
for you. How much water at thia rate
have you hauled in all, sir?"
The driver of the watoring-cart
jerked his thumb backward toward the
river and replied, "All the.Wether yes
don't Bee thora now, sor."
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