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V *" THE MENACE OF BOLL WEE1 Losses of From 70 to 80 Per Cent Louisiana and South Mississipji t In 1904 the boll weevil invade half dozen parishes or counties western Louisiana; by 1910 e^ ^ part of the State was infested. 1904 Louisiana produced 1,089, bales of cotton; in 1910 the S' produced 245,648 bales. In li Mississippi's biggest cotton year, State produced 1,789,000 bales; 1915, with the weevil in every cc ty in the State, the total produci was only 953,965 bales. From li - ? Louisiana's best year, to 1909, ^ " worst year after the arrival of weevil,' we have a loss of 845, bales, or 77.5 per cent. The thirty-third parallel of 1 tude is the northern boundary Louisiana and, as the writer has ] viously pointed out, it is south of ? line in Texas, Louisiana and Mis sippi that weevil damage has b heaviest. In the counties of Mis siDi Iving south of the thirty-tl parallel of latitude, cotton produci 1904 was 749,849 bales; by 1 t&is had fallen to 170,572 bales, c lo?s of 77.3 per cent.?almost ex ly the percentage of decrease sh< in Louisiana. Alabama and Georgia south of ] - all.el 33 possess climatic conditi V practically the same as. those Louisiana and Mississippi?sum: rainfall is about the same and wii temperatures are about the sa Moreover, differences in soils, 1 tenure and methods of farming very slight. Hence it would not s< unreasonable or illogical to assi that the history of the boll weevi Louisiana and Mississippi south ? parallel 33 may be accepted as an B . dex as to what may be expectec m Alabama and Georgia in the si latitude. Now let us apply the a1 age percentage (77.4) of decreas< t : Louisiana and Mississippi to Ah > ma and Georgia south of parallel and see what the results are. % v Bib Losses in Louisiana and Mis Sippi. Alabama's big cotton year 1914, when the State produced 751,375 bales. The same year Alabama counties lying south of ] allel 33 grew 1,047,650 bales. No > these counties their worst year \ ' the. weevil lose in production as similar territory in Louisiana Mississippi, production will be c v 22.6 per cent, of 1914, or 236, bales?a loss of 810,881 bales. I matter of fact, while exact reports not yet available, indications are 1 1 even this year the'Alabama coun under consideration have fallen 1 total yield not very far above 2 ' 000 bales. Turning to Georgia, we find 1 in 1911, the State's year of bigi cotton production, there was a t yield of 2,768,627 bales, and 1 south of parallel 33, 1,418,592 b; were produced. Now, if produci \ in the Georgia counties lying so of parallel 33 is cut as heavily as the case in Louisiana and Mississi the crop will be only 22.6 per cent that of 1911, or 320,601 bales?a $ of 1,097,991 bales. \ In attempting to arrive at any < elusions in regard to probable d * age in South Carolina, certain < of-the-ordinary climatic factors met with. If, as in the states to westf only comparatively light d age may be expected north of pa lei 33, then South Carolina farn need worry little about the weevil, very little cotton is grown in State south of this line. Heavy Damage Probable in Sc Carolina. But, because of the influence of near-by ocean, that belt of Sc Carolina lying between parallels and 34 has conditions that w( . lead us to expect decidedly hea jf weevil damage than has occurred tween these parallels in the State the west. For instance, United St weather bureau reports show that mean winter (December, January February) temperatures in Sc Carolina south of parallel 34 avei 47 degrees, while summer (June, ly and August) rainfall averages : inches. In Mississippi between allels 33 and 32, the mean wii ^ temperature is 47.5 degrees, and average summer rainfall l; inches; and between parallels 32 * 31, 49.8 degrees and 16.60 inc Thus, while mean winter temp tures in South Carolina south of allel 34 average lower than betv parallels 33 and 31 in Mississi the summer rainfall is decidi heavier in South Carolina. In \ of these facts, the writer believe fair to assume that in South C * lina south of parallel 34 the wee will encounter conditions?favor and unfavorable?that will ave] about the same as those found tween parallels 33 and 31 in the < States. If this be the case, 1 South Carolina south of parallel may expect a loss of something 75 per cent, when the weevil is a p worst, this loss of course rani higher in the southern and lowe northern part of the area. In S< Carolina in 1911 the counties sc r fIL. WOMEN'S THINGS. t. in The Kind of Stockings That Go With; i- Fall Shoes. d a Whoever said that simple foot-; ' in wear was coming back into fashion *ery was much mistaken. To be sure, cer-; In tain styles of "fancy" shoes were 520 marked down last winter, but othertate styles quite as elaborate took their; place, and, as for stockings, neverj the before have they been so varied and j in so far from plain or simple. >un- There is some thought that cotton ^on stockings, colored ones at that, may j *04, be worn, for the price of silk stock-j her j[ngS js soaring by the hour. But just j the at the moment silk stockings are! AAA -1 , 3 J_ _ C vvv maae in nunureus ui yauems. . Stripes form the most prominent a^T stocking decoration or motif. Some' of times they are up and down stripes, Pre~ sometimes stripes running around; this sometimes they extend the whole !sis~ length of the stocking, sometimes een only halfway down or halfway up. ;sis_ There are checked stockings, too, lird and plaid ones, and there are stocktion ings with odd and irregular designs. 915 Then, too, regular clocking at the )r a ankles, in colors or black or white, act~ is a prominent feature of the fall 5Wn stockings. Clocks are especially smart for wear with sport shoes, and ?ar" they add to the effectiveness of low ons shoes worn with short skirts. of One black and white combination mer shows half-inch stripes extending lter from the toe to the calf, ending there me* in arrowheads. Another shows a an<* panel of stripes extending the full are 11 _ i_ i, lengtn 01 me siocKing, auuui tuui inches across the front. One of the newer sorts of evening ^ *n stockings show beaded embroidery. This is in line with the vogue for m" beaded embroidery and sequins and ^ 111 spangles that is so strong for evenime ... mg frocks. Inserts of real lace, too, in fine silk b in stockings are used for evening. And iho. another evening idea is a white silk Q Q | stocking painted with flowers to match a painted kid slipper. This, ' of course, is so unusual that it may almost be considered a freak style. * W2LS But it is interesting and is mentioned ? for what it is worth, the ?ar" Compensations of Adversity, w if rith An American physician who has did recently returned from Antwerp, and where he was in charge of a district >nly for American relief, says that the av769 erage health in that city, particular's a jy jn regard to children, is particularare ly high. He attributes this to the :hat scarcity of food, which prevents fond ties parents from overfeeding their young j :o a <5nes, overfeeding being one of the 50,- principal causes of infantile - afflic- j tions. The health of th? better class ' :hat citizen, he adds, is also excellent, ?est probably because the latter has been, ota* in most cases, forced to abandon his mat automobile and to "foot it" in nis ales daily work, thus obtaining exercise tion he would ordinarily avoid.?Wall Street Journal. . | was ? ppi, ?* Parallel 34 made 624,500 bales of ;. of cotton, and if this when the weevil is loss worst is cut 75 per cent., which we believe, in view of the climatic condign tions already referred to, may be exam. pec'ted, we will have a loss of 468,375 out- bales. are The reader in the northern half of the the cotton belt is naturally curious am- to know what degree of weevil damral age Jie may expect. The best answer lers we can give is that while damage in for Louisiana and Mississipp south of this parallel 33 has been about 77J.5 per cent., average damage decreases uth steadily as we move northward from the Gulf coast. For instance, the dethe crease in production in Mississippi >uth has been as follows, to and including 33 the year 1915' Between 31 and 1 )uld 31 1-2, 91.8 per cent.; between vier 31 1-2 and 32, 83.1 per cent.; bebe tween 32 and 32 1-2, 77.4 per cent.; s to between 32 1-2 and 33, 58.5 per cent; ates and between 33 and 34, 34.6 per _ the cent. In Arkansas, the loss between ~~ and 33 and. 34, from the biggest cotton >uth year before the weevil to the worst *age year after the coming of the weevil, Ju- amounts to 26.8 per cent. Above 17.7 parallel 34 nowhere in Texas, Okpar lahoma, Arkansas or Mississippi had titer the weevil prior to 1916 occasioned the crop decreases as heavy as had re3.23 suited from bad seasons before the and weevil came. This year, with an exhes. traordinary wet season, the weevil era- has been severe in northeast Missispar sippi considerably north of parallel reen 34. However, excessive weevil damppi, age has hever before occurred so far edly north, and it is the writer's opinriew ion that it may be a dozen years bejs it fore it occurs again, aro- When may heavy weevil damage ivils be expected in Georgia and South able Carolina? The answer is that 1017 rage will find the weevil severe in southbe west Georgia, there will probably be Gulf heavy damage in south central Georthen gia in 1918, and by 1919 all the I 34 southern half of the State will be like hard hit. South Carolina's turn, t its roughly, may be expected to come, ging about 1919 or 1920, with increasing E r in damage for three or four years, when )uth a maximum will be reached.?B. L. a >uth Moss in the'Progressive Farmer. u ! -- I Claiming quality is just WeGu I a selling argument. _ _ I The body of the Never Rust Range I burning out?you get a written gua I Just think of this! A range thai I it. 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