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^ : 4 I : ■' v . • ■ • .' ' '• • . ■• J ••.■»; •■,. \ ' . ; . ' a "k. ■ hi ;•! 1 ; 1 • If Too Don't Rood THE CHRONICLE Too Don't Get Tho News. THE CHRONICLE StriTes To Be « Clean Naira' paper, Complete, Noway and Reliable. VOLUME XXV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1925 NUMBER 13 f COTTON GROWING PROFITABLY ♦ UNDER WEEVIL CONDITIONS Coker Farms Have Not Failed To Make TVo- Thirds Crop in Four Boll Weevil Years, Full 4 Crops During Last Two Years. }> acre, including labor and materials. Twenty pounds of calcium arsenate per acre is ample with our methods.^ We have several times had a dam aged infestation of plant lice in big cotton following several dustings with calcium arsenate but have learned to control these by dusting with sulphate of nicotine late on warm»evenings when the air is still. We think it likely that practically the whole cotton acreage of South Carolina will be heavily infested with overwintered weevils in June, and with average weather conditions, a wholesale ci^p disaster is very likely to those who do not employ weevil control methods. On the other hand, it seems extremely unlikely that the South can produce another 13,000,000 bale crop this year and that prices for the 1925 crop will be good. (This, we think, will apply especially to long staples.) If the majority of our farmers are so shortsighted as to de cline to use approved methods of crop production recommended by all ex periment stations and the more suc cessful cotton producers, another year of crop failures, with the continuance of hard times seems more than prob able. No more useful or patriotic ser vice can be rendered just now than the awakening of the whole state to the dangers and the opportunities of the present cotton situation. The knowledge and leadership of all'the extension forces in the state should be fully utilized. - Personal Pleasure Solicitor: “Oh, please sir, won’t you help the Working Girls’ Home?” Gallant Gent: “Will I? I'll say I will—and in my Rolls-Royce. Where are they?” > ~StfH Rural Attachments “Hello Jed. I hear you sold your farm and plan on leaving these parts.” “Yep. I’m going to move to the city and join the Country Club.” By DAVID R. COKER of Hartsville, S. C. Darlington county produced about 60,000 bales of cotton in 1920. Then the boll weevil came and sihce 1920 the crops of this county have been about as follows: 24,000, 12,000, 24,- 000, 19,000. On our farms we have not failed to make two-thirds of a normal crop during any one of the four bool weevil years and made full crops during the past, two years, al though 1924 was the wettest year ever knowif in this section, with a rainfall of 71.83 inches for the year and 41.9 from May 1 to October 1. It has occurred to the writer that South Carolina cotton producers would be interested in the methods employ- ^, ed by us in the production of full and profitable cotton crops during the past two years. The most essential fea tures of our methods are as follows: > 1. Thorough preparation of the soil 2. The use of a good amount of fer tilizers containing a plentiful supply of available phosphoric acid and avail able ammonia with a small amount of r potash. 3. Two to three side applications of nitrate of soda or sulphate of am monia during the growing season. 4. The use of pure, high germinat ing, pedigreed seed which produced f almost perfect stands. 5. Planting late enough to secure prompt germination (mostly latter half of April.) 6. Rapid and thorough cultivation throughout.the growing season. 7. Poisoning the early bool weevils several times with the molasses-cal-, - ^ • cium arsenate mixture, beginning just ♦ THE JEDGE’S JOSH ♦ before squares appeared and ending * * with the first blooms. 8. Dusting about six times between late July and early September, begin ning as soon as 5 per cent or more of punctured squares are noted. 9. Gathering the crop as promptly as possible and preparing a smooth, salable article by proper ginning. We *have~use3 from 590 to 800 pounds of acid phosphate, about 250 pounds nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia together, and about 100 pounds of fish guano or cotton seed meal, also about 100 pounds kainit. The cost of this fertilizer has ranged between $12 and $15 per acre. We do not consider the use of organic am monia essential except to secure a mixture which can be put out readily through a fertilizer distributor. The production on our Hartsville planta- 1 tion in 1924 was 143 bales, averaging 500 pounds each, a large proportion of this production being of 1 1-4 inch to 1 3-8 inch staple, the high grade portions of the crop of staples being sold at from 37 1-2 cents to over 40 cents per pound. We have made notable improve ment in our boll weevil contrpl methods during the past two years. There is no surer method of destroy ing the early weevils than the 1-1-1 mixture of calcium arsenate, molasses and water, if put out in dry, sunny weather, though, dusting the jwung plants with dry calcium arsenate is an effective method. Three or four applications, costing from ten to 16 cents per acre each for materials, com pletes this part of the poisoning pro gram. We have learned to make the later applications of k calcium arsenate at ‘the rate of one and a" half to two pounds per acre with a good two row dusting machine and this amount is usually effective for control. We usually make these applications in the early morning when it is very quiet with an air movement of not over one mile per hour, discharging above the cotton a dust cloud which is allowed to drift and settle, covering ten to 30 rows at each drift. The amount dis charged must be regulated in propor tion to the drift of the dust cloud. This method employs tne same prin ciple utilized in aeroplane dusting. Another factor which contributed considerably to our 1924 and in part to our 1922 crop was the discovery that where many heavy leaching rains occur after the usual applications of nitrates (which we usual 5 y put down here about June 10, and July 10) it bpays handsomely to put out a third application in early August. The ef fectiveness of this practice during wet years is further borne out by ex periments at the Florence station. Our experience has proved definite ly to us that no one who uses energy and intelligence in cotton production need make a crop failure under any 'k conditions-which have yet visited this 'ki territory. Boll weevils were not plen tiful in this section last year until about August 12, but a large propor tion of our cotton, crop set during the latter half of August and we suc ceeded in protecting most of the top crop from the weevil. The cost of weevil control with the methods we employ will not exceed U P« ♦ FARM DEMONSTRATION ♦ ♦ NEWS ♦ + C. L. Vaughan, County Agent * ♦ * Best Variety of Cotton Seed Farmers are warned about buying every variety of cotton seed that is offered for sale. It will be safe fJr you to use the varieties that have pro duced well on the experiment station here in Soqth Carolina. What is best on the experiment stations in other states might not be the best in South Carolina. Last year at Clemson Col lege the Cleveland and Cook varieties led over all others. We don’t need so many varieties in a community for they will be bad about mixing at the gin. Our production would be much higher if we had some legislation to prohibit the use of all varieties ex cept one to the community or coun ty, then we could start with pure seed and keep them pure. It Will pay every farmer that hasn’t pure seed to buy for a small acreage this year in order to have enough to plant the total acreage next year. It will also pay to have the old seed culled,, for culled seed should produce 100 pounds more seed cotton per acre over the unculled. Delinting Cotton Seed Much has been said about delinting cotton seed. If you wish to have your seed delinted for planting men tion it to your nearest oil mill. From the number of boll weevils that are expected to emerge from winter quar ters people cannot do too much to get their cotton to mature early. De linting seed will give an earlier and better standi It is advisable to have seed grade dbefore delinting for very little can be done toward separating after delinting. ROSA P0NSELLE • . , Famous American Soloist who won her way into the hearts of the Artist Night audience of last year’s Festival will appear.again at the 1925 SPARTANBURG MUSIC FESTIVAL WHICH WILL BE HELD MAY 6th 9 7th AND 8th Other outstanding Artists who have been secured for this year’s Festival are: MARIO CHAMLEE Lyric-Dramatic Tenor Metropolitan Opera Co. MARINA CAMPANARI Lyric Soprano La Scala (Milan) Opera FRANCES PAPEETE Mezzo Chicago Opera Co. AUGUSTA LENSKA Contralto Chicago Civic Op. Co. RHYS MORGAN Lyric Tenor Ann Harbor Festival OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH Solo Pianist LILLIAN GUSTAFSON Lyric Soprano N. Y. Oratorio Concerts DOUGLAS STANBURY Baritone Chicago Civic Op. Co. FRASER GANGE Baritone' . N. Y. Oratorio Concerts Philadelphia Festival Orchestra—50 Players. 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