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<1 WPiRR|ipp^|Ppff9ii ,/t THE CHRONICLE Strirea To Be a Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable. (ttlttttan If Ton Don't Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get The News. VOLUME XXIV CLINTON, S. Q, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1924 NUMBER T win m fur 1 MM WEEVIL Dr. Brace of St. Matthews, Says He Knows How to Feed Poison to Insect that Will Bring Death. Columbia, Feb. 10.—Arithmetic and the science of “Aggers” is to be used to defeat the nefarious purpose of the boll weevil. The boll weevil has depended upon the multiplication table to aid ih the conquest of cotton, but there is a laboratory man in this come the multiplying of weevils the addition of simple things like vitamens and contigrade. Dr. J. B. Bruce, of St. Matthews, tms discovered and prepared as a food to bo administered when the weevil is ready to begin feeding. Bet he has insinuated into the vitamen a lot of calcium arsenate poison, so that this will be the weevil’s last banquet In other words, the boll weevil’s existence, according to Dr. Bruce, parallels that of the cattle tick. The tick must have a certain food be fore procreation. Poison the food source by dipping the cattle in poi sonous fluid, and you get rid of the tick and of Texas fever. Likewise there is but one food, or vitamen for the boll weevil, and that is the «xude of the cotton plant. Get the chemical constituents of that food and mix them in a way to make a tempting ’Aw h « ’W N“. 4 by comes out of his long winter sleep, pounds. The No. 3 plat adjomei and he will eat it. But, when shall it be applied and how? The Bruce mixture is applied a city heretofore made famous in with a mop. The time to apply it. hibernation, and another application ia ten days will clean the field. Sounds all right. Will it work? What does it cost? These are some natural questions. “On the twenty- seven farms i nthis State wherel had demonstrations last year, it cost less than $2.60 per acre per season," he said. On one of these farms, con ducted by one of the best fanners in Marlboro County, there were ex periments with four different kinds of boll weevil poisons. I will not give the names of any mixtures but mine, which is No. 4. The results at the send of the year, after a conscien tious use under instructions from the producers of each were as follewe* No. 1, 210 pounds; No. 2, 243 pounds; 592 certain matters connected with cot ton, has been studying the boll weevil in his laboratory since 1920, and he claims to have found what the boll weevil likes in the way of nourishment—and when to feed it to him with a little infusion of poison, so that the imperishable bug will wave the white flag in sur render. Dr. Bruce has associated with him a number of business men in Co lumbia who have taken over the peanut oil factory in this city and will there manufacture the vitamen boll weevil destroyer. Dr. Bruce satisfied himself months ago that he was on the right track and last summer he had twenty-seven ex periment farms in this State, and from every one he got the most gratifying results. When Dr. Bruoe began to work on something to defeat the boll wee vil, he first got all of the govern- ment bulletins On the boll then in his laboratory began to study its habits of propagation, diet, etc. He soon found that there is a differ ence in the over-wintered weevil, that has been in hibernation, and the new ly hatched weevil. He also found that there were differences among the over-wintered weevils. For instance the mother weevil of 1923 could not be the mother weevil of 1924. He says that he was able after much study to classify the weevils in hibernation so as to find out the percentage of them that were capable of producing m the -epring, He then gave his attention to the diet. He states that the weevil is a self limited pest. After emergence from -hibernation it must feed to take jm the vital force necessary to propa- gate. This feeding period is from five to seven days. Having learned this much. Dr. Bruce set out to find what it is that the weevil feeds upon. says Dr. Bruce is when the sun re vives him after his hibernation. “Watch the thermometer,” says Dr. Bruce, “and when the sun registers 77, you needn’t look for the weevils —they will be there, if the opportuni ty for infestation has ever been giv en. It’s as ti^ue to a natural princi ple as fish biting on certain kinds of days and squirrels being plentiful some days and scarce others. By 77 I mean that that will be the tempera ture under the leaves of the growing plant, not out in the sunshine. “By {hat time in the summer the plant will have attained some size and the weevils come up to lay their eggs. In three days eggs become larva and the larva feeds upon the pollen of the plant. After 12 days the larva becomes a full grown pupa. Vitamen ia the exude of the plant, the vital force of the weevil. It can be made synthetically and can be syn- thetized with the poison. The dry [di calc ium arsenate ia effective only when some of it accidentally mixes with the exude of the plant and the weevil gets hold of it. The dry cal cium arsenate does not kill the weevil except in combination with the pol len." " Dr. Bruce says that the weevil is not migratory by nature but does hia moving in order find a place to deposit his eggs. He has but one function in which we are interested and that is propagation, for that is the one thing that makes him a pest. The weevil is described as carefully cleaning the square oi every foreign substance in order to deposit the egg within the nectar of the bloom. Having studied the hibernating and feeding habits of the weevil, what is Dr. Bruce going to do about it? He ■ly fLVr day and poison is applied the first day that the thermometer reaches 77 and if renewed occasionally thereafter, it will destroy more than 90 per cent This life giving factor he claims he of the weevils that have come from Laugh at the Hills/ Shoot the hills in an Overland! With a surge of robust power. Overland whips into action—off like a streak—carrying you up and over the top of the steepest, meanest hills. Try it out. Overland will prove on the road its reputation as the most car in the world for the money. Champion $695; Sedan $795,tab.Toledo. „ r ELLIS MOTOR CO. No. 4. So he asserts that the Bruce mixture permitted the farmer to grow nearly 600 pounds of lint per acre which was considerably more than he got where he used dry arse nate and othe® more or less standard mixtures. L. B. Wannamaker of the Model Seed Farm at St. Matthews, grew 464 pounds on the acre where he used the Bruce mixture; R. M. Pratt, of Bennettsville, 634 pounds, and J. F. Looper, of Greenville County, 1,150 pounds on two acres. I asked Dr. Bruce why he did not have the Bruce vitamen tried out on the government experiment farm at Florence and be said that it was ex perimented with there, but when the management did not follow his direc tions he withdrew. “But isn’t this a rather difficult thing for a share cropper to handle," I asked Dr. Bruce. “It is not,” he said. “If my directions are followed and they are very simple, anybody can make the applications success fully. I tried it in Newberry County on a 20 acre farm most favorable for infestation, and this negro croppeFj made a normal crop while the crops around him suffered by coma-prison." Dr. Bruce may or may not have the answer to the boll weevil prob lem, but he thinks he has, and like all crosaders he is deeply in earnest over it. His company has already sold about all the mixture it can put out this year and he says that he is proud of the “repeat” orders from persons who tried it last year. Valentine Day Here Again Ripping and Razzy Rhymes Are the Order of the Day. I never sausage eyes as thine, And if you’d butcher hand in mine We’d seek some ham-let far away. We’d meat life’s frown with life’s caress And cleaver road to happiness. Yes, yoy guessed it the first time. We are about to have with us once again St. Valentine’s Day—to be ex act today is the day. It is the day when the birthday of a saint of the third century is celebrated, to state an historical fact, but, actually, it is a time when people send foolish rhymes to thdir sweethearts and to people not their sweethearts— : and a time when the birds are supposed to ^emerge from their winter quarters and begin warbling again. The feathered songsters may or may not sing today, that fact large ly depending upon the weather, but “sweet Valentines” are going to be sent out regardless of barometric de pressions, for who cares whether it’s raining or snowing when he can send and she can receive from a burning heart such a couplet as this: “Can pin or ink or paper show My pure and fixed affection? No." Yes, the day of Sentiment and the day of Foolishness is with us again, as for instance: < TO MAH VALENTINE I don’t care fo’ style And I don’ care fo’ money, But I sho’ cares fo’ love And I sho’ loves you, honey. Or, what’s the matter with this one: You’re the apple of my eyeball You’re as sweet as sugar candy You’re the queen of basketball And I’m your Jim dandy. But all of them are not that bad. Some of them are tasteful in thought as well as in hand-painted designs. Clerk of Cowl Makes Several Sales Large Crowd In Laurem for Febru ary Legal Sales. The legal sales held last Monday in Laurens by the Clerk of Court, drew a -large crowd of on-lookers and buy ers. The following tracts of land were sold: Elledge vs. South—One-half inter est in 114 acres, sold to S. E. Elledge for $1,100. Johnson vs. Riddle—91 3-4 acres, sold to J. B. Owings for $5,000.35. Gray vs. Mahaffey—103 acres, sold to R. L. Gray for $l,Qfi(LP0- Miller vs. Miller—105 acres, bid off by C. R. Workman for'4,110. of Court Power sold for Mrs. Fannie "Scott, Probate Judge of Greenville, in the case of Phillips vs. Curry, 60 acres, which was brought by J. J. and M. R. 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