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II , ... ? | FARM ' \ i LEXINGTON COUNTY FARMERS UNION TO MEET The Lexington County Farmers ! Union will hold its 2nd. quarterly j meeting with White Rock local on j Saturday, July 9, 1921. beginning j Bv:/ - at eleven o'clock. All locals are reauested to send a full delegation. J. ED. KAISER, fev 1 Secretary. NEW FORMULA FOR WEEVIL POISON If z (Augusta Chronicle.) i Dublin, Ga., June 28.?A formula for poison that - will kill the boll weevil and keep a field clear of the pest until August, when the migratory weevils are in action, is being used this year by Dr. W. B. Taylor of Dexter, Laurens County, who has been growing cotton in Laurens for the past three years in spite of the boll weevil. Last year he made 139 pr/ bales on 150 acres, in spite of the weevil, wet weather and other hindrances. , Doctor Taylor lives about fourteen miles from Dublin and has become the recognized boll weevil expert of 1 the county. Saturday a friend In Dublin asked him about the weevils B-; t >; ' % on his farm. "Why the boll weevil is a joke with me," he replied. "I laugh every time I think about him. I can rid any field of boll weevils for 25 cents per acre, given just two successive days of sunshine. \ * \ j. /' He was asked for an explanation, and when he replied that he had worked out a formula for poisoning the weevil, and was using it, was asked for that formula. Here it is, just as he gave it, and it has the indorsement of the county - demonstration agent of Laurens County, J. B. Tyre, who was present: ? Take * molasses, 2 gallons; saccharine, 1 ounce; ice cream powder, 2 packages; calcium arsenate, 10 pounds; water, 8 gallons. Mix the ice cream powder and the saccharine both in a little water before adding to the other ingredients. When you have it all mixed together well, be sure it is kept agitated that the poison does not settle to the bottom. Make a mop by taking a small stick and tying a roll of cheese cloth around one end about two inches wide. Get an old tin can, fill it with the solution, keep it stirred, and walk down the row and put a few drops of the solution on the under side of * ; the leaves near the bud of the plant. Be- sure the mixture is well stirred while putting it on. Only a small amount is required for each plant, and with the above amount of the 4 mixture scientifically applied it should cover 20 acres. Some, however, apply a little thicker than needed and it . may not cover more than ten acres. I t A few drops to each plant is just as effective as a gallon. Only one application is needed, provided two sunshiny days follow. With this solution in use, all the squares picked up, \ the cotton plant pushed just as fast as possible, the farmer should have a full crop of cotton made by August, when the migratory weevils begin to swarm and when it is useless to fight any longer. If, the crop is made by that time however, you are safe. In explaining his formula, Dr. Taylor made the following point. He has found by the two years' of special experimental work that the weevils are attracted by a sweet mixture, and easily fall prey to poisoned sweets. Syrup, calcium arsenate, and water will kill the weevils, but he adds the saccharine to make the mixture sweeter than ordinary syrup, and more attractive to the weevil. The ice cream powders are added to give the mixture a "body." makes it foamy and mucillagenous. therefore hard to wash off by rain and sticking longer EVERETT-HARVARD-DAY^ TON PIANOS AND PLAYER PIANOS VICTROLAS AND VICTOR RECORDS. EMERSON AND OKEH. THE JOHN CHURCH CO , 1608 MAIN ST. COLUMBIA Mail Orders Receive Special Attention. ????Ban ... 1 t i ? PAGE on the plant, while it requires jess ! agitation. Any kind of syrup, corn syrup, molasses, or any like sweetening. will do. originator of molasses poison talks. (Editorial in Augusta Chronicle.) Mr. Dozier Hill, of Gough, Ga., originator of the molasses plan of boll weevil poisoning, came to the Chronicle yesterday and discussed with the - j...:,. . .] J eauor ueians uuncei nuig me nietnvu which large numbers of farmers now say is giving the most excellent results. According to Mr. Hill the boll weevil problem, insofar as it affects his immediate section, has gone a long way toward solution. In fact, he feels that he has an excellent chance to make a good crop and that his crop will not be ruined by the boll weevil. He feels that conditions other than the boll weevil must interfere to make the crop a failure. Just here let The Chronicle make itself clear once more on this matter of the boll weevil. We have urged the farmer to use every remedy suggested and decide upon that which is the best. We have urged that molasses and calcium arsenate be tried, that dusting be tried and every other remedy tried. Despite the fact that the government experts have contended that the molasses-calcium arsenate plan was of no avail we have urged that it be faithfully tried because the government sometimes goes wrong. We have now received evidence from so many different sections and from so many different farmers that it appears the molasses plan has demonstrated its success. We hope that it will continue throughout the entire cotton season the success that the experiments thus far have proven it to be. In Sunday's Chronicle we stated that there were some things about the molasses method of poisoning which we did not know, but which we would like to learn so as to pass the tip along to the farmers. This brought Mr. Hill to The Chronicle office to explain certain points which he, as the. originator of the plan, could explain better than any one else. "Last year I made an average of 11 bales per plow on 165 plows," said Mr. Hill, "though Burtce county was 1680 REPORT OF TH: The Carolina I at Columbia in the State of South June 30, RESOU Loans and discounts, Deduct: v Mntoa and hills redisconnted with Feder bank (other than bank acceptance sol U. S. Government securities owned: Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. boi All other U. S. government securities.. Total Other bonds, stocks, securitie . etc: Banking house, $175,000 00: Furniture $2,000 00 Lawful reserve w>th fed ral reserve .. Items wirh federal r se *eb-?n* i ? proce able as Teserve Cash in vault Amount due from banks, and trust com (other than included in items above... Exchanges tor clearing house Total of items Checks on bank* located outside of city c and other cash items Redemption tund with United States , S. treasurer Totai LIABIL Capital stock paid in 8urplus fnnd Undivided profits, Reserved for interest and taxes accru Reserved for. unearned discount. Oironlatirg notes outstanding mounts due to r ational banks Amount due r.o state banks, tankers and in the United States and foreign coun Certified checks outstanding m 'dor's cherk9 on own bank outstand Total of items above Demand deposits (other than bank d< (deposits payable within 30days): Individual deposits subject to check Certificates of deposit due in less tha m^Dey borrowed) Divide' d? unpaid Total demand deposits (other than reserve Time Deposit*, subject to reserve, payal to 30 days or more notice and postal s rertificates of deposit [other than for m Other time deposits Total of time deposits subject to res Rills navahle with Federal Reserve Banl r?*/ Total State of South Carolina?Ooonty of I, Joseph M. Bell, Cashier of r-he ah that the above statement is true to the Subscribed and sworn to before me th: Correct?Attest: T. S. BRYAN, R. S. Pes FORTES. ROBERT MOORMAN. Ui recto i "Of ih" t"tal ]ii;i!is and discount interest .-iid :i\soouiP was charged at law (S"r. r. 10 7, lU v Stat.) (exclusive to exceed :~0 c.t.ls was made) was noru badly hit by tin* boll wtrvil. .My molasses plan was arrived at only aftei a series of experiments with various* remedies. 1 tried out the molasses with other poisons, but finding calcium arsenate was the best of them all I went back to the molasses-calcium arsenate plan which I have used ever since and which is being used on hundreds of farms in Burke county and throughout this section of the country. "Since the first news of my remedy was given through The Chronicle my mail has been growing heavier' and heavier and I am now receiving hundreds and hundreds of letters. I spend several hours each night answering them. Of course, I am glad to pass along the information that I have for I am firmly convinced that the molasses remedy has saved this section of the South from disaster, because without a thoroughly successful method of boll weevil poisoning this year we could not hope to make much of crop. "I am very glad to clear up any matters that you have suggested in your editorial columns. In the first place, how often to poison? I would say, of course, to poison as often as necessary, though the question then arises, when will you know it is necessary. You will know by the squares falling. The government contends that there should be no poisoning unless there is 15 per cent infestation. The average farmer will find it difficult to tell whether there is 15 per cent or 30 per cent. The first appliT cation of the molasses should cover every stalk in the field with a small amount of molasses in the bud. Then watch the field closely for dead squares. Whenever you see several squares beneath a stalk in a field which has been poisoned, do what I call "ring poisoning," that is to say j place poison on aill stalks within an ! imaginary circle that are five feet distant from the stalk under which I you find the squares. This will obviate the necessity of going over the entire field to cover a few isolated spots where there may be a weevil operating. The "ring poisoning" will get the weevil operating in that particular locality without fail. | "Of course, you must pick up the squares and burn them. This should be done all of the time and farmers who neglect to do this are in for a great deal of trouble when the weevils are hatched out. When the cotton is up about knee high and there is a large bush instead of a very small Reserve District No. 5 E CONDITION OF National Bank, Oaroliaa, at the cIgmp of business 1921 RCES. . $ 2,726,734 43 al Reserve A \ r?r rnn AA a j io.ow w 2,651,234 48 ids par value) $ 200,000 00 46.3,050 00 663.050 00 52,250 00 and fixtures, 177,000 00 129,827 87 iss i f coll ction, Lot avail 10,201 94 222,408 05 pan:es in U. S. 8,864 93 41,309 40 $282,784 32 )r town of reporting bank 11,302 21 treasurer and due from U. 10,000 00 $3,977,448 88 .ITIES $ 300,000.00 100,000 00 $ 116,040 98 d 8.500 00 29,054 59 153.595 57 200,000 00 10,739 84 trust companies tries 5.381 83 1,513 97 ing 4.710 84 $ 22,346 48 jposits) subject to reserve 966,906 19 in 30 days (other than for 930 00 9,054 50 1* * ?miki a / ^ 4- /\ uaiuv uepuaius; auujcti u? $ 976,890 69 )le after 30 days, or subject Javings: oney borrowed) 1,005 00 1,873,611 14 erve $1,874,616 14 c 350,000 00 $ 3,977 448 88 Richland (ps): named bank, do solemnly sweatbest of my knowledge ai d telie* JOS M. BELL, Cashier, s 5th day of July, 1921. THEO. A. BELL, Notary Public for S. C. shmvr' above. the amount en v."l*!i rates in excess ot" those normi'tod by of notes upon which total charge not The number of such ion us was none. rnssMK | stalk, i iiuvc a :#i;ir. ??f poisoning j through a, sun:.*; iinn.. ! take a ; .regulation horn ami put ;t wooden1 i J stopper in tilt- * r i i of it and through' j tilt* wooden stopper I drill a small i hole, about half the size of a lead' i ! pencil. 1 pour the guano horn full i of molasses, with the calcium arse- 1 nate solution, and it pours out on the 1 cotton in a small stream. Sometimes j the molasses doesn't flow as it should,; so I have a stick with a mop on the end of it which fits snugly in the horn ! like a staff, or plunger, fits into a pop gun. This forces the molasses to poutout when there is any tendency to clog in the horn. The advantage of this method is that there is a little stream ' or moiasses going on corn sides or i the cotton ahd across the top of the) ; - stalk or the bud. A man can go down ; the row with this guano horn almost as fast as distributing guano. I know V it is difficult to explain this guano ihorn method so I am going to leave : it with you and any farmers who wish to see it can come to The Chronicle office. "I have made all sorts of tests on .this boll weevil poisoning. For instance. last year in a field I plowed ,up all except the each twentieth row in a field of cotton. I waited then for two or three days until the leaves were dead and I then applied molas-' ses and calcium arsenate to the remaining rows. All of the weevils had t I left the cotton which was plowed up and concentrated on the remaining rows. ' I placed paper under the stalks on each twentieth rows and the boll weevils the next day were dead in such quantities as to remind you of flies on fly paper. "You ask me about poisoning every other row, or every third row. Yes, you can do this and get the weevils, but the cost of the poisoning is so small that one can poison every row without any great expense. My formula. which is two pounds of calcium arsenate to two quarts of water and a gallon of molasses, will poison two and a half acres at a cost of 52 cents, or about 20 cents per acre. The cay cium costs 15 cents per pound and ' the molasses, 22 cents per gallon. Of course, it takes a little more of the poison when the cotton gets up bigger and you use the poison in the guano horn. "My judgment is that two thorough poisonings in a season plus the "ring poisonings" should be enough, though conditions may demand more. Of course, hard rains will wash the poison off, though it should get in its work in 24 hours. In other words. A Ju At Mi Fk ia '-f- w\ inn IUVLL L Illldd till with merchandis Our stocks mi make room for n approaching seas Everything Pric Watch the I k U* !. I A VlSlt Caroling it' it doesn't rain, within -4 hours at'- ; tei the application, the weevils should j lv- dead. 1 do not contend that I every weevil in a tield of cotton will be killed by one application. Now and ; then you miss one and that is why you should watch closely and be ready for "'ring poisoning." The guano horn was left at The! Chronicle office by Mr. Hill and we! shall be glad to show it to any farmer desiring to see it. and The Chron-J -icle again renews its invitation to farmers to write us of their experiments in fighting the weevil. m i m NEWS FROM LEXINGTON ROUTE FIVE E\*erybody enjoyed the fourth in this section even to Mr. Boll Weevil. Mr. Evan Glenn and Bonnie Norris of Gastonia, N. C., spent Sunday and Monday among home folks. Master John David Glenn and J.j D. McClean of Gastonia, N. C., spent Sunday night with Harold and Asbury Smith. Mrs. Geo. Glenn and daughter, Elizabeth of Gastonia, N. C., spent Sunday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith. Miss Boda Price spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. Julian McCartha. No fishing is allowed at Smith's At and Be I have a small stock of gr in the next few days regari was bought at rock bottom them to make room for a lii You have no idea how ch staple goods until you come H. CROMER We have a high power, fast cutting plant in itself for sawing logs to any Lever control starts and stops Saw. 8 ly Cleai SALE mnai s opportunity to su] e at real bargain pr ist be reduced this lerchandise now coi ion. in the Stor :ed for this S *apers During 1 Will Be Appr i's Leading Dep tit?11 ^ 'ij, pond. but believe me, swimming is. '/&4 Mr. Wesley Glenn spent Sunday..yj night at the home of Mr. W. Av^jg Smith. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Smith a: i .< family. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smi'r. '/-i ar.d family attended the barbecue at;*:; Gi'bert Saturday. Following are the names of tho.:e from route 5, who enjoyed the. barb - ' ! cue at George's pond: Misses Bo< i v Price, Estelle Roof, Grace Lee, Zelma Lee, Messrs. Harold and Asbu Smith, Harold Roof, Charles arid Dewey Steele. There will be a series of servic s I held at Pisgah beginning Saturday af- 1 ternoon. ? Entirely Proper Miss Porte Tt- n-aa a noooVi r^e ? -v " ^ Vi. -x ' show. One of the female perforn ers wore aboslutely nothing but a single catskin. Aunt Lucy?Shocking! What kin i of a creature could she have been? Miss1 Porte?She was a trained car. Difference to Public Opinion ? "Why should' a man of your wealt t / care for money?" "I don't care .or it," protested M . Dustin Stax the importance tlu ^ other pC'P'e r: r< to it that makes '<> the indi'.iduai fc< l it's desirable t.;- >. have as mi;' h r <s* possible." 1 |1 slow Cost I S oceries which I must mov*.dless of. price. This stock prices. We want to move I \? nf oiitn appoccnn'oc * v VJL MUVV u ' eap you can buy these i m and see. i *,3 8 "-2 OSWALD. \ outfit forced feed.?a complete power length. Does the work of six to *n men. Lever control of blade? hile engine is running. Have good ssortment of Gasoline Engines. All-? quipped with Bosch Magneto and of-'v .-"- J ?red at factorj- prices. / IAS.; ^ COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY . 23 West Gervais St., ColumbU^ S. C. : ~k 1 -v/fJB arj -jfl si ranee 1| ;* $ ^3| ) '. i "V BMHI ,1 Si igh'sl r>nlv vnnr wants y jy aj j vw* t? wi a vkj -i ice& j *| month, so as to J ning in for the ; " I'll lH e Specially | ale -1 nhis Month ' > 3 ' 1 . eciated i 1 T-^J 11 U M t. Store II