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BrHI ^ Wl s ^ Watch Label on Your Paper and Don't Let Subscription JSxpire. , * p*' a???? ESTABLISHED 1894 I * THE HORN SNAKE. horn snake ten feet tyng was ^ killed in Pickens county recently. As this species x>f snake is almost extinct in South Carolina the incident attracted quite a lot of attention. The Columbia State says the horn snake ( Is harmless, and iln ian editorial in ] which it took a few good-humored , jabs at the tlayer8 of the snake. The , State says in part: "That a creature Pjr so useful was filled is one of the J iew tilings increaiDie mat nag come out of Pickens." The Pickens Senti- ] nel, holds, however, that the horn , snake Is a deadly reptile and quotes , its follows from Logan's History of Upper South Carolina: "Bertram met with a reptile which t he calls the horn snake in his travels in>Carollna, and speaks of it as fol- , lows: ' , " 'The pine or bull-snake is very , large and inoffensive, with respect to , mankind, but devours squirrels, bird, rabbits and every other creature it , can take as food. They are the largr- , est snake yet known in North Amer- ' lea, except the rattlesnake, and per- ( haps exceeds him in length; they are . pied black and white. They utter a ( terrible loud, hissing, noise, sounding , very hollow, and like distant thun-- , der, when irritated, or at the time of ( incubation, when the males conten4 , -?-?^with one another for the desired fe- , male. These serpents are also called ( horn-snakes, from their tail termina- j ting with a hard, horny spur, which , they vibrate- very quickly when disturbed, but they never attempt to strike with it. They have dens in the:1 earth, whither they retreat precipi- 5 tatly when apprehensive of danger. ' "Lawson, who traversed the same * region about seventy^ years, earlier * than thp botanist (Bertram,) de- 1 scribes another under the name of 1 the horn-snake serpent, 6f a totally ' different character. Of the horn- 1 snake, he says, 'I never saw but two 1 that I remember. They are like the 1 rattlesnake in color, but rather ligh-M ^er. They hiss exactly like a goose < when anything approaches them J1 They strike at their enemy withj< their tail, and kill whatevsoeever they 11 wound with it, which is armed at the'i end with a horny substance like a'l cock's spur. This is their weapon, 111 have heard it creditably reported, by! those who said they were eye witness-1, es. that a small locust tree, about the , thickness of a man's arm, being') struck by one of these snakes at ten' i o'clock in the morning, then verdant! j and flourishing, at four in the after-1) noon was dead, and the leaves red 1, and withering.. Doubtless, be it howj it will, they are very venomous. I J] think the Indians do not pretend to i cure their wound.' I, "^his singular statement of the old surveyor, in relation to the locust, tree, could scarcely have ever come ] to the knowledge of the good, but i plain people living on Coronaka and i Wilson's creeks; yet there is still e*-j tant in that region a tradition in which it is related that many years | ^ <40 a man in the lower part of the j district or in Edgefield, being closely pursued by a horn snake, took refuge behind a tree, when the en' ranged serpent, rolling swiftly after him lika a trundled hnnn nlnnced horny sting deep into its trunk, where' it was made fast, and so diffused its vetaom Into the circulating sap as to I destroy In a few hours the vitality of the troje. "Bertram, with all his acuteness, and enthusiasm as a naturalist, has , certainly confounded the names o? two distinct native serpents pf Caro-'i lina. The bull snake, as he describes!, it, was well known in the upper coun-', try at the period of his visit and! long after; but the old people had seen and talked much of the horn ! snake a8 well, whofce sting they dread- , ed as the visitation of death. Hewit Informs us that the horn snake was ' found in Caroliina and owed its name, not to a horny excresence growing! jipon it8 head, as some have suppos-| ed, but to the horn-like sting at the' extremity of its tail, with which It ' defended itself, striking it with great 1 force into every Aggressor. I t was also deeemed exceedingly venomous; Mtd the Indians when stung by it did not resort to their usual anti-;1 dotes, but instantly cut out the 1 wounded part a8 the only rfafe pre- 1 ventative of the deadly poison being infused through the system. 1 Mills, in his Statistics, enumerates,)' among the indigenous reptiles of Carolina, both the horn and butt,! 'snake. The former, however, muatj' have been exceedingly rare; for at. a comparatively early period/it hadi" already become a creature of curi-j cub tradition- Lawson, it has been * observed, saw but two of them as, ? eariy^as 1718, notwithstanding noj / white man of his day enjoyed bet-'1 ter opportunities for making such discoveries in Carolina. Among the! innumerable facts that may be gath-; ered from natural history illustra-J ,tl?-e of God's goodness, there are! few more deserving of notice^ than this rareness of a reptile so fierce jy. and deadly as the horn snakc must munquestionably have been. Had it been as abundant as the other venemous species the Indians even, though furnished with their potent . antidotes, could hardly have inhabited the country. The imagination is taxed to conceive of an object more repulsive or truly terrible. It possessed scarcely a single redeeming feature. There was nothing of the admirable craft of the eye?nothing p'" of the begutlful changing of colors ] ?!}p THE DILLON HER E. B. McEacJiern Badly Injured. High-Powered Car H? Was Driving Turns Turtle. / , Mr. E. B. McEachern, well known ;otton dealer and farmer, was seriously injured when a big Cadillac limousine he was driving turned turtle a mile north of Dillon early Saturday afternoon. In the car with Mr. | McEacherA was Mr. W. B. Whaeler of the Braddy-Wheeler Co. Messrs. McEachern and Wheeler had been out on the Stafford's Bridgfe roifc and were returning to town,! with Mr. McEachern at the wheel.) When they crossed the railroad and were on the good stretch of road between the crossing and town Mr. McEachern speeded up the car. Persons who witnessed th P nrpiHpnf onlH 1 the car was coming down the road at a lively clip?the speed being estimated at from 25 to 70 miles an hour ?when Mr. McEachern attempted to make the curve about 300 hundred: yards this side of the railroad crossing. On the inside of the curve the car met a horse and buggy and In "hugging" the outside of the curve in order to pass the buggy the car swerved too far to the right, jumped j a ditch, struck a stump and turned] over. It is evident that the car turned ! over once, but eye-witnesses say it! turned over two or three times. The ;ar almost reversed itself and was1 lying side-up with the front end to-1 ward Hamer. Mr. McEachern was pinned under! be wreck and Mr. Wheeler mounted | i passing truck and canie to town as] luicKiy as possiDie. -Men rusned to| the scene of the accident and remov?d Mr McEachern from the wreck., He was lifted into an automobile and wrought to'town where an examina-; tion disclosed a serious cut on thej 'oreliead, a broken collar bone and ;wo broken ribs. He was suffering terribly from shock and for a while lis condition was critical. He wasj aken that afternoon to Florence, where an X-ray examination failed to iisclose any internal injuries and the report from the hospital Sunday uorning stated that he had recovered from the shock and was out of danger. Mr. Wheeler had a miraculous escape from injury. He was in the car luring its perilous flight through the iir and escaped with only a small scratch on one of his ears. His experience was so thrilling, however, that it was several hours before he recovered from the shock. The car Is almost a wreck. The body is badly torn and twisted and the top damaged beyond repair. The, chassis, fenders and wheels also suf-J fered. It is the Opinion of those who' viewed the wreck that Messrs. Mc-j Eachern and Wheeler owe their lives' to the stout steel top which held the', up as it was iurning over, other-1 wise it is likely that they would have been badly crushed* by the heavy body. o j It Happened IUght at Home. i Some weeks ago The Herald told j the story of a Florida man who drop-; ped his eye-glasses in a barrel of Irish potatoes and recovered them af-1 ter a lapse of six months when he! ordered his spring seed potatoes' from New York and the same barrel! i\a8 shipped back to him unopened. But an incident almost as strange aj the Florida incident happened in Dillon a few days ago. a Dillon merchant gave a traveling man an order, for some groceries. The traveling! man represented a wholesale house in a distant city. In the order was; an order for a bag of chicken feed. The shipment arrived in due time, but! very much to the Dillon merchant's astonishment he found that the; wholesale house had shipped him a: bag of chicken feed manufactured byj the Carolina Milling Company. There is a mora! in the incident? and that is that it pays to buy at borne. The Dillon merchant paid the freight both ways. ! rattlesnake?but with dull eye, in-' ic-nsate skti and vengeful spite, ready j to dart it8 dreadful sting into every approaching intruder, it lay a ' horrible oompound of all the hated qualties of it race?the incarnation of leath. "On an 'afternoon, nearly forty years ago, a party of gentlemen were riding from Abbeville village towards the Calhoun settlement, and when approaching the place now known as the Cabins they paeeed a dwelling near the wayside, just at the moment when a little girl, whom I they had seen to cross the road some] distance before them, gave a pierc-, ing shriek and ran back into the house in an agony of pain and flight. Perceiving that something serious had occurred they hastily alighted to ascertain the matter; and entering the room found the child stretched upon a bed and already n corpse. She had lived 'ong enough however, to whisper to her. mother that a snakc had struck her while she was in the act of gathering firewood on the roadside. The party distantly sought the spot and there discovered a large specimen of the horn snake which they dispatched. The skin of this serpent waR stuffed and preserved by an ntelligent gentleman of the neighborhood; ana it was longi an object of great curiosity at his residence, and afterwards fit Old Cambridge, where it was last seen." ItUo ALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ? _ _ , ^ ? HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPARTMENT. (Conducted by Miss Etta Sue Sellers) , Community Meetings. A community meeting wag held at Oakland on Wednesday, August 10th, and one at Oak Grove on Thursday, August 11th. The attendance at Oakland w&8 about 300 and at Oak Grove 250. These meetings proved to be very worth while- At the Oakland meeting Mrs. S. O. Plowden, District I Agent, demonstrated the Steam Pres- j sure Cooker, Mrs. Frances Y. Kline! demonstrated table service and talked j on marketing. Miss Amanda Ed-| vturati, wrmeny uisinci Ageni, gave a jelly demonstration, and interesting talks were made by Mrs. R. S. Rogers, Rev. John McSween, and Mr. J. W.!' McKay. The program at Oak Grove | was similar to the one at Oakland; with the exception of the last four mentioned. Delicious picnic dinners were served at each meeting. Collecting I/eaves and Hark for Sale. It is a matter of interest, primar-', ily to the former, that certain of the well known weeds now either gener- j ally or locally infesting the country , are the sources of crude drugs ob-,( tained wholy or in part by importa- , tion from abroad- Roots, leaves, and' flowers, of several of the species most detrimental in thP United States are gathered, prepared, and cured in Europe, and not only form useful commodities, but supply to a considerable extent the demands of foreign lands. Hence It appears probable that while weeds can hardly be made desirable still in his fight to exterminate them the farmer may be able to turn some of them to account. The prices paid for crude drugs are not great and would rarely tempt anyone to pursue this line of work as a business. Yet, if in ridding the farm of weeds and thus raising the i value of the land the farmer can at the same time make these pests the : source of a small income instead of a dead loss, something is gained. In older to help the farmers to obtain the best possible prices for such products. instructions for collecting and preparing crude drugs derived from' weeds are here briefly given. The collector should observe them carefully. Directions for Collecting leaves, i Leaves should always be collected in clear, dry weather, in the morning.' after the dew is off. They are at1 their best when the plant is in bloom ' and should be collected at this time. J Leaves of biennials are most valuable during the second year of their, growth. In drying, spread out thinly, on a clean floor and stir occasionally until they are thoroughly dry. Re-' move all stems from leaves and re- \ member that the leaves which are worm most are those which retain thrir natural preen color. Dampness will turn leaves black, so be careful not to let them pet wet. Directions for Collectinp Harks. Barks may be gathered either in the fall or spring. AH rough barks should be rossed before peeling?that Is, the rough outer bark must be scrapped or shaved off, and the inner bark then peeled. Barks 'may be dried ! in the sunlight, except green wild j cherry. The Jimson weed is one of the so called pests. The club girls of Dillon county have been asked to gather a generous supply of jimson leaves and seeds. o HARDING A PAINTER Washington, Aug. 19? Everybody in the country probably knows by this' time that Warren G. Harding, before he became president, was an editor. But few can remember when he was a painter and a good ?ne. He proved his craftsmanship today. On hi8 way from the executive mansion across to his office this afternoon he stopped to watch some of the painters engaged in the business of making the White House white. "Here, you don't know how to do that," the president jokingly remarked to one of the astounded workmen. "Let me show you." Taking the brush, he dipped it in the paint pot and went to work. "When did you learn the trade, Mr. President?" asked the man. "Why, on the day President Garfteld was shot I got my first contract. It was for painting a Baptist church near Marion. I did it too" said the president. "Have you got your union card?" he was asked. "They didn't have painters unions in those days out in my country" said the president as he was forced to give up his painting job for an important conference. j o I LAKE CITY FARMER I./OSES IRON SAFE. Lake City, Au?. 17?Some time | between Sunday and Monday night, during the absence of S. W. Young, a prosperous farmer, about eight miles west of here, his house was I entered and the iron safe in which he [kept about $30,000 in Liberty bonds and an almost equal amount of mortgages aiu other securities was removed and tracks in the yard indicate that it was hauled away in & wagon. Mr. Young was appraised of the fact upon his return to his home Ifcesd&y afternoon and is making evleyp effort to apprehend the robbers. % r / tt fe THURSDAY, MOI{ NIXG, AUGUST, 23 FIRST NEW BALE COMES TO MARION. Marion, Aug. 18?The ginning of a 400 pound bale of cotton belonging to T. M. Moody, route No. 1, at the Marion Cotton Oil company today marked the first of the season in Marion county. 1 The cotton crop in this county will fall far short of previous years. In audition to a material cut in acre- 1 age, the ravages of the boll weevil are beinc extensivlv felt. ITn until about two weeks ago, the boll weevil had not made its appearance in any 1 great quantities except in the lower part of the county. Now there is hardly a field which 1 is not infested. It is believed that all the crop which is not already ! made will be destroyed by the < weevils. In the lower part of the ! county not only the blossoms are be- i inj, attacked by the weevil but large well developed bolls are being punc- < tured. \ The weevils are rapidly moving j northward- Evidences of them are i reported in Dillon and Marlboro coun. \ ties. It is believed that they will cover the entire cotton growing belt ol the Pee Dee section before the i i?nH nf tho qonsnn FcirniArs nnH hn?- 1 iness men are very blue over the outlook. Although persistently warned, people in this section have done lit-1: tie in the way of diversified farm-j i ing, cattle raising and dairying in J preparation of the boll weevil ii menace. I o ; ?VTIjOOK FOK COTTON. Many lndieutions Seem to Make For! Higher Prices. The past two weeks, or rather the period since August l.^has witnessed| a recovery in cotton value of $5 or *6' per bale in the futures market and I similar advances in the markets of | the Soutlv This would be regarded! as a healthy sign of recovery under | ordinary circumstances. It might mean that th? cotton farmers would' stand a chance to break even on thifc year's crop. Indications in the market ! point to even higher levels for futures after the first burst of new crop' selling is out of the way. Also a! healthy sign under normal conditions.' However, the important and regrettable feature of the advance is thej fact that prices are not going high-j er because of increased mill buying,1 which means indirectly increased con-! sumption. It is going higher because the farms of the South have been mutiliated by weather conditions which are spoiling the crop and because the crop when raised has to face a voracious horde of destructive weevils and their kindred. This W'U mean that such portions of the South as have the luck to raise all or part of u crop will receive good prices?comparatively?for their cotton, but it will also mean that other sections will have further losses to, pile on the heavy burden which was placed on the shoulders of the j roducer in the 1920 deflation. It must be agreed that true, prosperity does not consist of high rrices obtained for one product, which means that some other consuming class must pay more for an ; rticle than the circulating medium of their own production is worth. Rather,1 prosperity may be said to mean the freest circulation of commodities,' large production, giving employment to many and with free circulation and large production, large quantity, trading bases, meaning large quantities of commodities, are within reach of the average man. This prosperity cannot be obtained when it is necessary t? cut cotton acreage because that either means that land itself is left to waste or that other crops are raised, which makes for hardship on j the producers who would ordinarily raise that other crop. Neither can true prosperity be attained by such means or artificial stimulation of values, or rather of costs, reduction of a commodity supply for any reason,! such as the destruction of cotton by weather and weevil. The South Is to be pitied for its short crop rather than congrati/lated on obtaining higher prices for a reduced supply. ?New York Commercial. o i I.OOO (tales of Cotton Burned. Hartsville, Aug. 22?At 12 o'clock last night fire of unknown origin broke out in the warehouse of the! Hartsville Warehouse and Compress Company, of which Ernest D. Sum-! ner is president, and destroyed 1,000 bales of cotton valued at between *75, 000 and $100,000. The cotton belonged mostly to farmers of this section and had heen stored. Thf. fire company did splendid work and battled for hours trying to allay, the conflagration, which was suffi-; ciently extingushed today to allow the charred bales to be moved about. | o Prof. W. H. McNairy of Chester who succeeds Prcf. Roberts as super-1 intendent of the Dillon schools, arrhed in town Monday morning and for the next t>iree weeks will devote bis time to arranging for the opening of the schools, the schools being scheduled to open Monday, September 12th. Prof. McNairy has leased Mr. I. Blum's residence and Mrs. McNairy and the children will arrive in a few day? ?? E L. Moore is in New York on busin ess. 1 ( \ :J \ Mk\ V < lok. J * \ ralfc. | i, 1021. Rockefeller Reducing Kxbile New York. Aug. 22?The estate of John D. Rockefeller, when he dies will show less than $500,000,000 according to a statement made here today by Henry H. Klein, deputy commissioner of accounts for New York city. "But that does not mean th-at the wealth estimated at two billions of dollars has been dissipated," he added. "It will merely have changed hands. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., not hie father, is the richest man in the I'nited States." It was Mr. Klein's estimate of the Rockefeller wealth that drew some time ago a signed statement from 'he younger Rockefeller in which he saiu nis iamers estate had at no; lime reached one billion dollars.; Since then there has been consider-; able controversy, over the subject. "When John D., Jr., challenged my estimate and declared his father's estate had been reduced largely by irifts, he meant that those gifts were to himself and his sisters, along with Lite Rockefeller Foundation,' Mr. Klein continued. "The market value of all the Stanlard Oil companies is about three billion dollars, of which the Rockefellers hold 30 per cent. Most of these holdings are now in the name of the son, as are many millions more in socalled independent oil companies. 'As an illustration of the transfer of securities from the father to the son, the latest stock list of the Standarrd Oil company are worth $70,000.000, while his father's are a mere $110,000. "What is true here is probably true ill the other concerns in which they are the controlling factors^ It is by this transfer that John D. Rockefeller hhmself, is not worth the two billions I estimated." o Found Conditions Bad. Mr. L. C. Braddy is back from a trip to Greensboro, Ga? where he spent two days looking over a cattle farm and making purchases for his own fatyn. Greensboro is in the boll weevil territory and Mr. Braddy says he found conditions just about as bad as they could get. The store shelves were almost empty and business was practically at a standstill. A large oil mill in the town had been idle two years. Only three car loads 01 fertilizer were shipped into Greensboro this year and what cotton had been planted showed the lack of proper fertilization. The cotton is small and will not yield much to the acre. Cotton cultivation has almost been abandoned and the people are raising hogs, cattle, soy beans, peanuts, corn and other food crops. Some of the farmers have gone into the dairying business and Mr. Braddy spent the day with o'ie farmer who used to make 500 hales a year, but who does not now plant a hill of cotton. This farmer has a large dairy farm and seems to be prospering. One or the cattlp raisers Mt;. Braddy saw prom-( ised to brinp a car load of pure-bred rattle to the County Fair this fall. This pentleman said he was poinp to offer his cattle nt a ve>" low fipure in order to induce the people to make all early beginninp in the cattle in-j dustry. He said the boll weevil would he here next year in swarms and if there was a Dillon county farmer who thought he could plant a normal acreage and get ahead of the weevil he was fooling himself. Mr. Braddy is fencing in lots of land and will cut his cotton acreage down to four or five acres to the plow. Hp is preparing to increase his tobacco acreage, and with a fine herd of cows, plenty of soy beans, corn and other food crops he hopes to he able to cope with the boll weevil next year. o CLARENDON STUDIES BETTER FARMING METHODS. Clemson College, Aug. 22? Re-i ports coming through County Agent \V. R. Gray, of Clarendon, show that; Clarendon county is looking towards better farming methods to meet the! conditions now existing. Recentlymeetings have been held among business men to consider the possible necessity of erecting grain elevators,! sweet potato curing houses, and other means of caring for the new1 crops resulting from greater diversi-i fication. Evidently the business men' o' Clarendon are ready to be of the! greatest possible assistance to the farmers of the county in meeting the' new conditions. BeforP faking any definite steps it has heen decided, reports the county agent, to study the situation more carefully. In order to have better! light on the problems of diversified! farming it has been decided that a committee of four men, including! the county agent, make a week's! trip into Georgia and Alabama to! study their system of diversified agriculture with reference to grain1 elevators, storage and warehouses, and other matters that have to do with the business end of diversification. It is like'v that this tour of in-) \ertigntion will be made early in I August. The expenses of the trip will be borne by tHe business men of the town of Manning. o ? Dr. Joe Cabell Davis and A. K. McI.fllan left Monday on a two week's trip through Ohio. While away they will visit several of the county fairs and see their horses race. o D. T. Hamilton of Florence spent Sunday with relatives. ^ , fifr ^4j^j t rhe Date on the Label is the E -J Dale Your Paper Will Be I ^ m. ?j VOL. 27. NO. 40. KILLS WOMAN WHO STICKS 11V HlSltAMU. Porterville, Cal., Aug. 22?Waiterr H. Alexander, who, according to J. ^ iluchman, a rancher near here, shot, und killed Mrs. Baehinan yesterday when she refused to leave her husband and go with Alexander, warfound dying on a ranch ten uiiler> ft cut here by a posse today. Alexander died before any aid couldJ. be administered. Sheriff Court Smithy leader of the posse, believed Alexan? uer poisoned himself. "Well, what are you going to do?**" Alexander was quoted as demanding* ol Mrs. Bach man. "1 guess I'll stay here," Bachtnair said his wife replied from her seat, beside him in an automobile. Thereupon, Dachnian says, Alexander fired a shotgun point-blank at the woman. The shooting occurred at the rang*, home of H. B. Collings, stepfather of " Alexander, in the Popular district near here. Alexander's mother and step-father also witnessed the shoot Ing. After the shooting Alexander left-, carrying the shotgun, it was said. According to the stoy Bachmai. t< Id officers, lie had gone to Lindsay . twenty miles from the Collings ranch,. t>> bring home Mrs, IJachman. He found Alexander also at Lindsay. h? * >um, hiiu wa? torced oy him to ikivt Mrs. Bachnian and Alexander to the-ranch. He told officers Alexander* held a knife at his back '.ill the way. At tht. ranch Alexander dlablfed tlw automobile, obtained a shotgun and ' approached Mrs. Bach man, the woman's husbnna said. Alexander thei. .demanded what the wbnian was going to do. and receiving her answer, shoe her, Bachnian said. After holding Bachnian at bay with |the shotgun half an hour, while Collinps procured liquor from a neighbor's house. Alexander fled across thefields, the two men told officers. o Carolina. The Home Demonstration and Betterment Clubs held their monthly meeting at the school house on lasT Thursday afternoon. A most helpfu? lesson on yeast bread was given by Miss Sellers. On account of car trouble s^e was delayed and was unable |to demonstrate the cooking of the bread Miss Blanche McLaurin is visiting her sister Mrs. D. A. Alford at Wesley this week. Mrs. Mary Mclnnig returned liorm last week from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. George Whit,. an<j little grandson, George White, Jr., of On Hill. N. C. Mr. and Mrs. David Overstreet and Mrs. David Overstreet, Jr and children of Hasty, N. C-, spent Sunday w ith Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Henderson. Master Clewell Mclnnis of Clio spent a few days of last week with his urr cle, Mr. D B. Mclnnis. Miss Etheleen Smith visited at the home of her uncle, Mr. Dan A1 ford of Wesley, last week. Miss Emma Kate Mclnnis is spending a few days of this week at thi' home of Mr. Neill McRimmon of Raemon. N. C. Miss Beatrice Rogers of Dillon is visiting Verna McQueen this weekMiss Beulah Mclnnis underwent a successful tonsil operation at the Clio Hospital last Thursday. Mr. J. D. Henderson sp<_nt the week end at Clinton. S. C. Rev. Neill Mclnnis who is* spending his vacation here, left Saturday for Guff, N. C., where he will conduct a week's meeting, after which hewill return for the remaining days of his vacation. Mrs. Neil C. McLaurin of near Clio virlted her daughters, Mesdames D. L. and D. W. Mclnnis last week. o THE HOI J, WKKVIIj A MX HIS WINTER QUARTERS. Cleinson College, Aug. 22. ? The cottton boll weevil finds his hotel for the winter in old stalks, weeds and d- ad grass in the field. He will find splendid winter-quarters in unkepf terraces, weedy ditch banks and fences, in neglected orchards, in underbrush along the woods and roadsides, etc. The weevil requires for successful n jihci a jMrttf w&iii ; amount of moisture, failing in truck places where moisture is heavy*. Therefore the cover crop that is nsfxt for preventing land washing and" th? leaching of soil, fertility and" for maintaining, soil texture is of" tbe greatest value under weevil' conditions, because it acts as a cleansing crop which keeps down weeds and winter fodll plants and destroys protective coverings for the weevil ancF other destructive insects during tiusr winter. It is time now for farmers to think about these matters and not let this work go until the last moment, advises Prof. A. F. Conradi, entomologist who says that w(. want to cleau up our farms this fall as we havenever done before. iThese wintering places mentioned must not be permitted; they must be removes! ordestioyed by one method or another. Humus is our greatest deficiency in farming and for that reason vegetable matters should be properly in- "J eorporated in the soil whenever possible; hut there are a great many cases where this can not be done; and yet should weeds, dead grass etc., remain through the winter they would form successful wintering * places for the boll weevil. Burningmay be the only resort by vlMi they can be destroyed, and tf ?o> burning should be employed' r /a 1M