The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 24, 1919, Page 6, Image 6
HOW TO FIGHT THE WEEVIL.
Alabama Citizen Offers Timely Advice
to Bamberg Farmers.
, Mr. S. D. Dantzler, of Autangaw- j
ville, Alabama, spent several days in I
Bamberg last week visiting relatives
and friends. Mr. Dantzler is related
to a number of Bamberg county families,
and visits the county occasionally.
He resides in a Mexican boll
weevil infested country, and knows
something about the ways of the weevil,
and also knows what the people
in Alabama have done to combat the
weevil. Mr: Dantzler relates the experiences
of the Alabama farmers
with the weevil as follows, which will
be of interest to the farmers here:
"The first year lie usually makes
his appearance in the fall and but
little can be done toward checking
him except to destroy as man* ?
possible before they hibernate for
the winter. Though they are usually
so few the first year that it will
not pay to spend much time in looking
for them. The second year there
will not be many weevils before the
last of August or September, therefore,
it will do but little damage. It
will pay 'however (o have hoe and
plow hands keep a sharp lookout for
.weevils from the time, cotton chopping
is commenced and when they
see one follow and catch him and
to make the hands move viligant
offer a reward of say 5 cents each
for all weevils caught early in the
season. The first weevils are usually
found in the bud of the cotton about
the time the third leaf is coming out
where he subsists until. the cotton
puts on squares (or forms) after
which he lives by puncturing the
square and sucking the juice therefrom.
Before leaving each square
he deposits an egg therein which
brings forth another weevil in about
three weeks.
"The third year is the time 4o
make the fight in earnest for with
all that you can do great damage
will be done, especially if there is
much rain during the months of
June and July. Commence the fight
same as the second year and in addition
soon as the punctured squares
beein to drop have them picked up
and burned* once a week for about
six weeks (children can do this
work). It will also pay to use a
boll weevil catcher, which is simply
two tin troughs connected, containing
oil drawn along the row with the
cotton passing between them into
which the weevils and punctured
squares drop. There are several
/ kinds of these machines, all of which
that I have seen are good.
"The most important work to be
done this, the third year, is to gather
the cotton before cold weather,
and cut up and plow in the stalks
with two or three-horse plows or
tractors before the weevils hibernate
for the winter.
"A full crop of cotton should not
be planted the third year. Five to
10 acres to the plow is best, contin
gent of course upon the labor supply
and the risk you are willing to take,
but by all means the stalks should
be buried or; burned before cold
weather and this should be cofitinued
several years?how long depends
entirely upon your work of
destruction and the rains in June,
July and August.
"After the third year by using*
energetically the experience and
knowledge you have gained you can
make cotton right along, but if will |
be unsafe to plant more than half
of a normal crop for several years,
because when he comes it is to stay. {
Wo ha? nnt even deserted the first
friends lie made on entering the
United States.
"You already have the weevil in
this State putting in his work of destruction
and will advance from 30
to 40 miles a season, therefore, it is
well to commence preparations for
his coming next year, by reducing
the acreage in cotton and planting
more grain and raising more cattle
and hogs. Keep up this diversification
every year with gradual reduction
of cotton acreage until the third
year after the weevil first visits your
cotton field where if you have only
five acres to the plow you will be hurt
very little.
"While the destruction 01 tne weevil
is almost beyond the limit of imagination,
farmers should not become
panic stricken and sacrifice their
lands or allow their labor to leave.
Keep a steady nerve, hold on to land
and labor, and in a few years a better
and more lasting prosperity will
dawn."
Explained.
"The man you see going yonder is
a man of low life and dark deeds."
* "Is he a crook?''
"Xo: lie cleans cellars ond shovels
coal for a living."
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THE WOLF OF WALL STRET.
How David Lamar Worked Coup for
Fortune.
Xo shears will be shed in downtown
Xew York over the affirmation
by the United States circuit court of
appeals of the conviction of David
La mar, better known as "The Wolf
of Wall Street."
He lias a cunning that is wonderful
and a skill in some matters that i
is uncanny. At times he has used
men of the highest probity as pawns
in the promotion of his schemes. One |
illustration will suffice to show the I
man's adroitness.
There was a coal strike 15 or 20
years ago which was fought with extreme
bitterness. The coal people
would not recognize the union leaders.
and the union leaders had their
forces so well organized that production
was paralyzed. The stock
market was affected seriously.
One day John Mitchell the union
leader, was called to the telephone in
the Hoffman house. After some preliminary
precaution, the speaker said:
"I am Mr. Morgan, I wish you
would come to my house in Madison
Avenue tonight at 8:30. I shall have
several men there with whom you
now are at war. If you desire bring
several of your associates, not more
than three or four. Let us see if dispassionate
exchange of view's can not
bring some settlement to this senseless
quarrel."
Mr. Mitehpll Raid hp would be
pleased to accept.
Later Mr. Morgan was called to
the telephone and this is the message
he received:
"This is Mr. Mitchell of the coal
miners' union. I believe if you will
use your good offices to bring
about a meeting of myself and my
associates and of the gentlemen representing
the leading coal interests
a way may be found to settle the
strike. I promise nothing except our
willingness to discuss this serious
trouble man fashion and without
prejudice. If you say so, my associates
and I will be at your Madison
Avenue home at 8:30 tonight."
"Very well; be there," replied Mr.
Morgan.
That evening three or four of Mr.
Mitchell's associates rang the bell of
Mr. Morgan's house between S:15
and 8:30 and were admitted to the
big reception room, where some presidents
of great coal railroads and
some big coal operators had assembled.
A delightful dinner was,' served
and there were wine and cigars after
which the gentlemen began to talk.
They were not so bitter or unwilling
to make concession while they sat in
friendly companiorship, and a little
after midnight they came practically
to agreement.
Then, Mr. Morgan, in asking all
present to be at his office at 10:30 in
the morning to ratify in writing the
agreement, said he wanted to express
his high regard for Mr. Mitchell and
let all know it was due to his suggestion
that this statement had been
made possible through bringing the
conflicting parties together at his
home.
Mr. Mitchell protested that the
credit was not due him, but to Mr.
Morgan from whom the suggestion
came.
J. P. knitted his brows in surprise.
Then he said, "Huh," and let it go
at that.
While the conference was on a
man stood in the shadow in Thirtysixth
.street watching the Morgan
house. When the party came out
he was close by while they were
shaking hands and bidding each other
good-bye. and saying they'd see
each other again at 10:30 in Morgan's
office.
The man who had been watching
hurried to a telephone office and did
some calling to London, where the
stock market opens hours before it
does in New York.
In the morning there were mysterious
rumors that the coal strike was
settled in a secret conference. The
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aiiemuun ueiure, just ueiore closing,
there had been heavy buying of coal
shares. There was heavy buying also
at the opening this particular morning.
At 10:30 a. m. there was a wild
whooping in Wall street. John Mitchell
and party and the coal railroad
men had got together.
Then the market boiled. In a shop
in New street a man watched the
ticker and gloated. Thousands and
tens of thousands were coming into
his possession every few minutes
through the rolling" tape.
There were persons in Wall street
who considered it queer that some
one had anticipated the coal settlement
and "cleaned up."
They started an investigation for
Mr. Morgan's information.
"It was the Wolf," they reported to
the great banker. ?
Then and not till then did Mr.
Morgan begin to understand how
Mitchell thought Morgan suggested
the conference and Morgan thought
Mitchell proposed it.
Lamar always worked alone. That
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perhaps, is one explanation of how ;
he got his name of the Wolf, the lone
wolf. He made few friends. He
gambled heavily and lived extravagantly.
He played no favorites. When
Von Rintelen came here with a big ;
bribery fund to promote German pro- :
paganda and prevent munitions from
being shipped. Lamar was one of the
first to grab him. What Lamar did
to that fool German's bank account
was a wonder.
Von Rutelen went to jail. Lamar
after using every legal device to keep
nut. is sroina there also.?Richard
Spillane in Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Couldn't Hear His Wife.
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