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Originator of Mol
of Boll Weevi
Dozier Hill, of Gough, Ga., origi-;
nator of the molasses plan of boll i
weevil poisoning, came to the Chron- j
icle yesterday and discussed with the:
concerning the method!
which large numbers of farmers now |
say is giving the most excellent results.
According to Mr. Hill the boll
weevil problem, insofar as it affects
his immediate section, has gone a
long way toward solution. In fact,
he feels that he has an excellent
chance to make a good crop and that
his crop will not be ruined by the
boll weevil. He feels that conditions
other than the boll weevil must
interfere to make the crop a failure.
Just here let the Chronicle make
itself clear once more on this matter
of the boll weevil. We have urged
the farmers to use every remedy suggested
and decide upon that which
is the best. We have urged that moi
lasses and calcium arsenate be tried,
that dusting be tried and every other
remedy tried. Despite the fact that
the government experts have contended
that the molasses-calcium arsenate
plan was of no avail we have
urged that it be faithfully tried because
the government some times
goes wrong.
We have now received evidence
from so many different sections and
from so many different farmers that
It appears tffe molasses plan has demonstrated
its success. We hope that
it will continue throughout the,
entire cotton season the suCheps i
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that the experiments IUU9 lai uaw t
proven i? to be.
In Sunday's Chronicle we stated;
that there were some things about
the molasses method of posoning
which we did not know, but which
we would like to lehrn so as to pass
the tip along to the farmers. This
brought Mr. Hill to The Chronicle1
office to explain certain points which ;
he, as the originator of the plan,j
could explain better than any one !
else.
"Last year I made an average of
11 bales per plow on 165 plows."
said Mr. Hill, "though Burke county
was badly hit by the boll weevil. My
molasses plan was arrived at oniyj
after a series of experiments with!
various remedies. I tried out the)
molasses with other poisons, but findIng
calcium arsenate was the best of,
them all I went back to the molasses-j
calcium arsenate plan which I have
used ever since, and which is being!
used on hundreds of farms in Burke
county and throughout this section
of the country.
"Since the first news of my remedy j
was given through The Chronicle my!
mail has been growing heavier and
"heavier and I am now receiving hun- l
dreds and hundreds of letters. I j
spend several hours each night an-j
?T,r,TMr.cr thpm. Of course, I am glad^
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to pass along the information that I
"have, for I am firmly convinced that
the molasses remedy has saved this
section of the south from disaster,
because without a thoroughly sue- j
cessful method of boll weevil poison-j
ing this year we could not hope to
make much of a crop.
"I am very glad to clear up anyj
matters that you have suggested in
your editorial columns. In the first
place, how often to pofSon? I would j
say, of course, to poison as often as
necessary, though the question then
arises, when will you know it is neccessarv?
You will know by the
squares falling. The government
+Vioro should be no pois
COIiLtJUUS (.nab
oiling unless there is 15 per cent,
infestation. The average farmer will
find it difficult to tell whether there
is 15 per cent, or 30 per cent. T-he
first application of the molasses
should cover every stalk in the field
with a small amount of molasses in
the bud. Then watch the field closely
for dead squares. Whenever you
see several squares beneath a stalk
in a field which has been poisoned,
Eve's Ancestor.
A young mother in Chicago was!
endeavoring to act as her own Sun-j
day school teacher in the matter of
to l biblical I
imparting iuuua m cu^u.
knowledge to one of her offspring.
After reciting the story of Adam j
and Eve the mother began catechiz- j
ing the youngster.
"Who was the first woman?"
There was a momentary silence
and then the kiddies replied:
"God's grandmother."
Great Britain'has more than 300,000
girl guides.
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'asses Method
1 Poisoning Talks
do what I call 'ring poisoning,' that
is to say, place poison on all stalks
within an imaginary circle that are
five feet distant from the stalk under
which you find the squares. This
^ ill obviate the necessity of going
over the entire field to cover a few
isolated spots where there may be a
weevil operating. The 'ring poisoning*
will get the weevil operating in
that locality without fail.
"Of course, you must pick up the
squares and burn them. This should
be done all of the time and farmers
who neglect to do this are in for a
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great deal of trouble when the weevils
are hatched out. When the cotton
is up about knee high and there
is a large bush instead of a very
small stalk, I have a plan of poisoning
through a guano horn. I take a
regulation horn and put a wooden
stopper in the end of it and through
the wooden stopper I drill a small
hole, about half the size of a lead
pencil. I pour the guano horn full
of molasses, witn tne caicium arsenate
solution, and it pours out on the
cotton in a small stream. Sometimes
the molasses doesn't flow as it should,
so I have a stick with a mop on the
end of it which fits snugly in the horn
like the staff or plunger, fits into a
pop gun. This forces the molasses to
poor out when there is any tendency
to clog in the horn. The advantage
of this method is that there is a little
stream of molasses going on both sides
of the cotton and across the top of
the stalk or the bud. A man can go
down the row with this guano horn
almost as fast as distributing guano.
t know it is difficut to explain this
guano horn method so I am going to
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leave it with you and any farmers j
who wish to see it can come to The j
Chronicle office.
"I have made all sorts of tests on
this boll weevil poisoning. For instance,
last year in a field I plowed;
up all except the each twentieth row
in a field of cotton. I waited then
for two or three days until the leaves
were dead and I then applied molasses
and calcium arsenate to the remaining
rows. All of the weevils
had left the cotton which was plowed
up and concentrated on the remaining j
rows. I placed paper under the stalks!
on each twentieth row and the boll'
weevils the next day were dead in j
snrh Quantities as to remind you of !
flies oil fly paper.
"You ask me about poisoning every
other row, or every third row. Yes,
you can do this and get the weevils, J
but the cost of the poisoning is so j
small that one can poison every rowj
without any great expense. My for-1
mula, which is two pounds of calcium j
arsenate to two quarts of water and j
a gallon of molasses, will poison two j
and a half acres at a cost of 25 cents, I
or about 20 cents per acre. The cal-i
cium costs 15 cents per pound and |
the molasses, 22 cents per gallon. Of j
course, it takes a little more of the
Doison when the cotton gets up big
ger and you use the poison in the
guano horn.
"My judgment is that two thorough
poisonings in a season plus the 'ringpoisoaings'
should be enough, though
conditions may demand more. Of
course, hard rains will wash the poison
off, though it should get in its
work in 24 hours. In other words,
if it doesn't rain within 24 hours
after the application the weevils
should be found dead. I do not contend
that every weevil in a field of
cotton will be killed by one application.
Now and then you miss one
and that is why you should watch
closely and be ready for 'ring-poisoning.'
"
The guano horn was left at The
Chronicle office by Mr. Hill and we
shall be glad to show it to any farmer
desiring to see it, and The Chronicle
again renews its invitation to
farmers to write us of their experiments
in fighting the weevil.?Augusta
Chronicle, June 28.
St. Matthews Boy Breaks Leg.
St. Matthews, July 4.?Little
Thomas Symmes, the four-year-old
son of Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Symmes,
sustained a serious injury today when
he fell and broke his leg near the
knee. The little fellow was engaged
in practice on his cross cars on which
he had become an expert for a child
? wvmTo nprfecting one of
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his acrobatic feats he lost his hold
and fell to the ground breaking the
bone near the knee. The injury was
so serious that he was at once taken
to a hospital in Orangeburg where
the X-ray is expected to reveal the
full extent of his injury.
FORMER PRESIDENT
NEW-CHIEF JUSTICE
TAFT TO HEAD THE COUNTRY'S
HIGHEST COURT.
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Borah, Johnson, La Follette and Watson
Object Without Accomplishing
Delay.
Washington, June 30.?Former
President William Howard Taft was
nominated late today by the President
to be Chief Justice of the United
States and his nomination was confirmed
by the senate in executive
session.
rPV>Q nnminatirtn WQC Tint PnnfirniPfi
without opposition, however, and a
roll call was demanded. The opposition
was understood to have
been voiced by Senator Borah, Idaho,
Johnson, California and La Follette,
Wisconsin, all Republicans,
who were said to have criticised Mr.
Taft's record and his nomination.
On the roll call, however, only
four votes were cast against the
nomination. These were by Senators
Borah, Johnson and La Follette and
Senator Watson, Democrat, of Georgia.
The final vote was 60 to 4. An
agreement was reached not to make
a roll call.
The Senate's doors were closed for
discussion of the nomination after
suggestions that Mr. Taft be confirmed
in open executive session beoause
he, as a former president, had been
rejected by opponents. Senators Borah
and Johnson led the fight on the
floor in opposition to Mr. Taft, and
he was defended by about a dozen
senators, including Knox, Pennsylvania;
Kellog, of Minnesota; and Willis,
of Ohio, Republicans, and Under-1
wnnd nf Alabama. Democrat minor-,
ity leader; Smith, of California, Over-j
man, of North Carolina, and Brouss- I
ard, of Louisiana, Democrats.
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STATE NEWS ITEMS.
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Happenings 01 * anous acvuvus ?clated
in Brief Form.
"Methodists of the state have fallen
short of their goal by about onchalf
in the educational campaign recently
conducted," says the Columbia
Stats Sinday. "The goa. for tie!
state was $2,000,000, and only about!
$1,000,000 has been pledged."
W. R. Bradley, acting collector of j
internal revenue, says that a total of |
$28,322,145.52 was collected in
South Carolina by the federal government
during the past 12 months.
The figures for the same period a
year ago were $26,653,541.89, there
irorpasp in one vear of more
UClJ-lfe ? !! .
than a million and a half dollars.
Major Rufus W. Grant, assistant
adjutant general, was appointed on
July 1 adjutant general by Governor
Cooper, to succeed the late Gen. W.
W. Moore. Gen. Grant is a former
service man, having served on the
Mexican border and with the thirtieth
division in France. He became
assistant adjutant general on his discharge
from the army after his return
from France.
James P. Browning, serving a life
sentence for the killing of Laurie
Fairey in Orangeburg county, will
have to serve his sentence, according
to a decision of the supreme court,
which has reversed the decision of
the circuit judge in granting Browning
a new trial. Judge Mauldin some
time ago granted a new trial on the
ground that the trial judge was related
to Fairey.
John Pelzer was drowned near
Orangeburg when the sulky in which j
he and a companion were riding, fell
into the stream of Goodbys creek.
The horse managed to get out of
the stream, and Pelzer's companion
escaped.
w Osteen. a Greenville mer
chant, was killed Saturday when he
accidentally discharged a trap gun
set to prevent further burglaries in
his store. After leaving the store,
he suddenly returned to get some
cigarettes and ran against the cord
attached to the trigger of a shot gun 1
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pointed towara me uuui CUbiauwt |
the load of the gun entering his body.
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From $20,000 to $25,000 fire loss!
is reported from a fire in Orangeburg
Saturday, when several stores were
damaged, with stocks of goods. The,
PRESIDENT SIGNS
PEACE RESOLUTION
HARDING AFFIXES SIGNATURE
WHILE RESTING.
War Tg A*. H!n/1
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Formalities of Declaration Completed
By Deposit of Document in Archieves
of State Department.
Rariden, N. J., July 2.?The resolution
of congress declaring war with
Germany and Austria-Hungary at an
epd was signed here late today by,
President Harding.
So there might be no unnecessary
delay in consummation of the long deferred
state of peace, the resolution
| was brought here by special messenj
ger from Washington where it had
j been given final congressional ap!
proval yesterday. The messenger left
for the capital again tonight to com
plete the formalities of the declaration
by depositing the document in
the archieves of the state department.
There was little of the dramatic in
the actual ceremony of giving presidential
approval to the measure. Returning
here from a luncheon and
golf game at the Somerville Hill
county club the president found the
White House messenger, E. W. Smithers,
waiting for him on the veranda
of the Frelinghuysen house.
Mr. Harding immediately put on his
nose glasses and, sitting in a porch
j swing, examined the official copy of
the resolution minutely. The signing
i trtnb- ninrp at. a small mahogany table
in the adjacent living room in the
center of a distinguished group, which
included the president, host and hostess,
Speaker Gillett of the house of
representatives, Senator Kellogg, of
Minnesota, a member of the senate
foreign relations committee, Senator
Hale, of Maine, and other members of
I the week-end party.
| As the president's'pen scratched out
the final letters of his name, one of
the group remarked: "Well, that's
what, Mr. President."
"Yes, that's it," replied Mr. Harding,
with a broad smile and the others i
responded with a quick burst of handclapping
as if the historic significance
of the occasion had been borne in
upon them.
No formal statement was made bj)
| the president in connection with the
nf Viia signature, and the
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| consummation of the first formal step 1
in the announced peace programme
of the administration. With other
papers of a routine charcter
brought here for his attention, the
president returned the peace resolution
as soon as it had been signed and
then prepared to resume his interrupted
holiday by getting into golf
clothes for another workout on the
links.
In signing the resolution the presiident
used a pen sent him for this
j purpose by Representative Porter, of
j Pennsylvania, chairman of the house
onil -mint
I Toreign anairs c-um ill i HCt uuu JV. |
author of the measure. The pen will
be returned to Mr. Porter as a souvenir.
In China, only friends made after
marriage usually call a woman by
her new name.
Mrs. Sarah Maxwell, Canada's oldest
citizen, recently celebrated her
116th birthday. She has outlived all
her children.
loss is partially covered by insurance.
Several other buildings were
threatened.
Horace D. Brown, cashier of the
Bank of Mount Carmel, last week
took nux vomica when directors of
the bank discovered that there would
be an apparent loss of $8,000 in the
bank's accounts, although no blame
was attached to the cashier for the
loss. There was nothing wrong with
the cashier's connection with the
bank. He will recover, it is said.
The interstate commerce commission
has issued an order authorizing
the receiver of the Orangeburg rail)
way, extending from Orangeburg to
North, a distance of 18 miles, to disI
continue operation and abandon the
iroad. The road has been in the hands
of a receiver for some time past.
A bull belonging to J. W. Sheriff
in Orangeburg county caused the derailment
of a freight engine a few
days ago. Passenger trains had to be
detoured via Blackville for a few
hours after the wreck. The bull was
killed.
Uses Saccharine, i
der With Mole
Dublin, Ga., June 28.?A formula'
for poison that will kill the boll weevill
and keep a field clear of the pest j
until August, when the migratory i
weevils are in action, is beine used !
this year by Dr. W. B. Taylor, of Dex- j
ter, Laurens county, who has been I
growing cotton in Laurens for the;
last three years in spire of the boll j
weevil. Last year he made 1?.9 bales,
on 150 acres, in spite of the weevil,
wet weather and other hindrances.
Doctor Taylor liyes about fourteen i
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mucs num. .uuuuii a,uu uas ucuumc ]
the recognized boll weevil expert ofj
the county. Saturday a friend tn
Dublin asked him about the weevils
on his farm.
"Why the boll weevil is a joke
with me," he replied. "I laugh I
every time I think about him. I can I
rid any field of boll weevils for 25 J
cents per acre, given just two sue- j
cessive days of sunshine."
He was asked for an explanation, |
and when he replied that he had
worked out a formula for poisoning
the weevil, and was using it, was j
asked for that formula.Here
it is, just as he gave it, and;
it has the endrosement of the county j
demonstration agent of Laurens
county, J. B. Trye, who was present:
Take molasses, 2 gallons; sacchaA
1 All ? AA i/lA A*?An r\ sv wr >4 stO I
A *UCj JL uunv^c, V/Icaui pu W UCi , ?
packages; calcium arsenate, 10
pounds; water, 8 gallons. Mix the
ice cream powder and the saccharine
both in a little water before adding to j
the other ingredients. When you
have it all mixed together well, be
sure it is kept agitated that the poison
does not settle to the bottom.
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Make a mop by taking a small stick
and tying a roll of cheese cloth!
BRIDEGROOM HANDCUFFED.
Conducetor Was to Release Husband,
But Key Was Broken Off.
Columbia, June 30.?Love did not
laugh at locksmiths here today when
two Augusta people, married in Augusta
this morning, were conducted
to a locksmith by Capt. F. B. Fishburn,
well-known checker player and
Southern railway conductor, to have a
pair of handcuffs removed from the
bridegroom's wrists. The young husband,
William Leroy Britton, told a
most unusual story, his statements
being indorsed by his bride, and Capt.
Fishburn.
Mr. Britton and Miss Clarice Wise
were married at St. John Methodist
church in Augusta this morning.
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rne weaaing party uau just icti me
church when a crowd of young men
took a hand in the proceedings. Mrs.
Britton says that these young men all
close friends of her husband were
headed by William Skelleton, Daniel
Mack B.erry, Carl Brinson, Joe Long
and Herbert Elliott. As the men
grasped the hands of the bridegroom
to congratulate him he found when
they had finished that his hands were
of not much use to him for they were
firmly held in "honest-to-goodness"
handcuffs. The newlyweds were put
aboard the Pullman car with Mr.
Britton still handcuffed. The Pullman
conductor, however, had been
given the key with instructions to unlock
the "bracelets" when the train
was well on it'^way to Columbia. This
he attempted to do but the key broke
in the lock and Mr. Britton remained
a prisoner on his honeymoon. Then
the dining car conductor and Capt.
Pishburn entered the game. The dining
car conductor conducted the embarrassed
bridegroom to the kitchen
of the dining car where a strong arm
cook used a clever to cut the chain
that held the handcuffs together but
he could not get them. Capt. Fishburn's
automobile met the train and
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he Hurried Mr. aim .ma. cnuuu
away from the station in quick time,
taking the bride to a hotel and the
bridegroom to a locksmith, where
after assurances were given the expert
on handcuffs and locks generally
that there was no reason why he
should not free the captive a key was
was quickly made and the handcuffs
unlocked.
Mr. and Mrs. Britton spent the day
here and will leave early tomorrow
morning for Hendersonville to spend
two weeks, after which they will return
to Augusta.
Mr. Britton kept the handcuffs for
a souvenir of the first eighty miles of
his honeymoon. Mr. and Mrs. Britton
took the episode in the best of
spirits and laughed heartily when it
was found that the locksmith could
save the day.
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Fee Cream Powrsses
and Calcium
around one end about two inches
wide. Get an old tin can, fill it with
the solution. keeD it stirred and
walk down the row and put a few
drops of the solution on the under
side of the leaves near the bud of the
plant. Be sure the mixture is well
stirred while putting it on. Only a
small amount is required for each
olant and with the above amount of
the mixture scientifically applied it
should cover 20 acres. Some, however,
apply a little thicker than needed
and it may not cover more than
10 acres. A few drops to each plant
is just as effective as a gallon.
Only one application is needed, provided
two sunshiny days follow. With
this solution in use, all the squares
picked up, the cotton plant pushed
just as fast as possible, the farmer
should have a full crop of cotton
made by August when the migratory
weevils beein to swarm and when it
is useless to fight any longer. If the
crop is made by that time however,
you are safe. /
In explaining his formula, Dr. Taylor
made the following point. He has
found by the two years' of special experimental
work that the weevils are
attracted by a sweet mixture, and
easily fall prey to poisoned sweets.
Syrup, calcium arsenate, and water
will kill the weevils, but he adds the
the saccharine to make the mixture
sweeter than ordinary syrup, and
more attractive to the weevils. The
ice cream powders are added to give-the
mixture a "body," makes it foamy
and mucillagenous, therefore hard to
wash wash off by rain and sticking
longer on the plant, while it requires
less agitation. Any kind of syrup,
molasses, or any like sweetening, will
do.
U. S. FLAG OVER BERLIN.
First Time Snice American Declaration
of War.
Berlin, July 4.?American flags
^ Attt ATTAw "D A??l i f A/^ O TT f AT? f A firflf
new u?ci JJcniu iuuaj iui cne msv
time since the American declaration ;
of war, but the American mission and
the German foreign office have not
as yet been formally notified that
congress had concluded peace. The
newspapers, in the absence of the text
of the peace resolution, confine their
comment to the hope that "there will
be a speedy resumption of peacetime
commercial relations. '
German official circles are awaiting
the text and developments. Meanwhile
opinion in the German foreign
office is unofficially summed up as
follows:
"An international situation is ended,
but we do not know what to expect
or what the peace conditions v
will be?whether the United States
will subscribe to the Versailles treaty
in toto or at all. We are awaiting to
be officially appraised of the terms of
the compromise resolutions and what
the next move will be."
Some of the newspapers express
the hope that the United States will
immediately take a hand in having
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the penalties niieo. auu lug
Silesia question decided. Others view
the situation as "a formal state of
peace, still without meaning."
The Stars and Stripes floated from
the American Chamber of Commerce,
as well as from private dwellings. ,
Not Reassuring.
A certain young man was so well
satisfied with the impression he had
reason to believe he had made on a
certain young woman that he did
not attempt to verify this belief, but
boldly made references to his "standing"
with the rest of the family.
"Do you think," itfe said, "that your
worthy father will accept me as a sonin-law?"
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"I haven't the least aouui m mo
world as to that," said the girl:
"Father and I, you know, never
agree on anything."
Not Surprising.
There was recently erected in a
western town an orthopaedic hospital,
the architectural features of which,
became the subject of discussion between
two members of a club, the
one a physician and the other an
architect.
"What do you think of it as a building?"
asked the medico.
The archtect smiled. "Externally,"
he observed, "the design is modern,
and internally the treatment is somewhat
severe, as is usual in a hospital
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