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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.
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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 *
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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
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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. Adult
Chorus—350 Voices—Children’s Chorus—500 Voices
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TI^KET^—Season, $8.00, $10.00, $12.00, $15.00. Sale Opens April 1st.
Single—Afternoons Thursday and Friday, $2.00 . each. Evenings Wednesday and
Thursday, $3.00 each. Friday, Artists Night, $5.00 each.
DUPRE BOOK STORE, Spartanburg, S. C., for Information and Tickets.
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at the cashier’s window.” »
Boy: “Well, how about a letter of
recommendation?” •
Boss: “Why—ejr—er, oh all right.
Miss Jones take this leter. ‘To Whom
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is one of the best boys this firm ever
turned out’.”
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ever studied pharmacy.”
Youth: “I haven’t—but I’ve had six
months experience in the five and ten
cent store.”
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Strategy
Himan: ‘My wife buys mote gloves
than any woman on earth. Really
she’s going to break me yet.”
Smartly: “Why don't you buy her
a diamond ring?”
Truthful Shopper
Clerk: “Wouldn’t you like one of
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are great to improve your vocabu
lary.” v
Woman Shopper: “We haven’t any
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parlor.”
Ed Purdy’s Philos
“Our modern school system must be
piling more and more* work onto the
pupils. I notice matiy of the poor
children are too tired to walk to or
from school And have to use dad’s
auto.” •
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