. Arsenate an?
Weevils
To the Editor cf the News and
, Courier: As boll weevils are now j
reported in greater or less quantities
y on nearly every farm in the state and i
as the weather thus far has been ideal
for their propagation it looks as if i
there is small chance of producing a j
^ fair cotton crop unless some cheap I
and effective method of checking j
them is found and put into effect immediately.
'
* I have heretofore recommended
* that the farmers experiment with a
f mixture of calcium arsenate and mo-*
lasses, having both experienced and
heard of good results from this treat*
ment and knowing that the exA?nse
* of the use of this mixture is so small'
that failure to secure results wojild
not mean a heavy loss.
r
During the past few days I have
become thoroughly convinced that
y this treatment is extremely effective.
On Friday, the 9th instant, on our
pedigreed seed farm eleven live active
weevils were placed on a few stalks of
cotton upon which a few drops of the
I molasses mixture had been placed. A
*tfew hours later our experimenters
f/Minii oiirht riPAri wppvils and no live
?
ones on these stalks. On May 30,
V Mr. J. W. Goodson treated half of a
field with this mixture and on June 5
he carefully examined this field and
f hundreds of weevils on the untreated
cotton and very few on the treated
cotton. He is absolutely convinced
of the great value of this treatment,
as are Messrs. Randolph Gillespie,
t iGeorge Newsom and George W.
t Threatt, of this section. Mr. A. H.
Rogers, of Society Hill, and Mr. R.
c' Lee Bass, of Lanes, all of whom have
. made tests with this mixture. In,fact
I know of no'test that has been made
which failed to result in killing a high
per cent, of the weevils on tfie treated
cotton.
I believe that if every farmer will
* make an application of the calcium
arsenate-molasses mixture this week
r ' (he will make a great deal more cotton
than otherwise. Weevils are already
puncturing the forms on the old cot-!
{ ton and these should be carefully
picked up. Additional applications
L of the molasses mixture should be ap'
plied at least once per week for the
next four weeks and oftener if washed
off by rain.
< Take two pounds of calcium arsenate,
mix thoroughly with one gallon
* of warm water and then one gallon
of molasses (the cheapest black-strap
is best), applying to tne cotton witn
t, a mop. A drop or two in the bud of
. eacfo^ plant is sufficient. A very small
f quantity appears to be as effective a^
a large quantity. The main thing is
to get it on at once and get it prop,
erly distributed. After the cotton is
two or three feet tall a mixture of two I
^ and one-?half gallons of molasses, seven
and one-lialf gallons of water and
10 pounds of arsenate may be applied
with a spray pump. We got good results
with this mixture last year, using"
an orchard spray with 5 nozzles,
easily covering forty acres per day.
For some reason the extension buv
-oao,* ie nr,t ro/>nmmf>nrtin2 the USe?Of
V A. C/AU 1C UW & VWAAAM* ?
tjie calcium arsenate-molasses mixf
ture in fighting the weevil although
a circular issued by B. R. Coad, of the
Tallulah Laboratory and dated July
6, 1921, shows this method to be a
^ most effective means of early season
control under certain conditions and
# although the dusting method recommended
by them produced most disas
trous results in some instances in this
section last year. In view of theabundant
evidence of the effectivev
ness of the calcium arsenate-molasses
* treatment and especially in view of
the fact that its use only involves an
V expenditure of ten cents to twenty
cents per acre for materials per application
can be mixed, and applied
by any tenant rarmer, i cannoi understand
their attitude which is still
4 more difficult for me to understand
because the dusting method recomI
mended by them involves the cost of
several dollars per acre for poison, an
expensive machine and night work?
i a combination which is, under present
conditions, entirely out of the
% reach of the average tenant farmer
and of many land owners.
With the evidence at work I think
it probable that if the calcium arsen*
ate-molasses treatment is applied to
v every acre of cotton in the state four
times during the next month it may
result in an increase of at least a
Quarter million bales to the crop of
i the state this year.
DAVID R. COKER.
Hartsville, S. C., June 12, 1922.
^ c5Kore A bout Molasses
x and Calcium Arsenate
To the Eidtor of the Xews and
Courier: During the past few days
^ many farmers in this section have
^ made tests with various mixtures of
calcium arsenate and molasses, and
y"
d Molasses f
Effective Says
in every instance with which I am
familiar, they are delighted with the
results., On our own plantations we
have experimented with several mixtures,
and are now using a mixture of
one-half gallon warm water in which
is thoroughly mixed one pound of
calcium arsenate, and added to onehalf
gallon of black molasses. We
have found a convenient way to apply
is to use a quart bottle which is
filled three fourths full of the mixture.
Cut a trench out of one side of
t the cork, reverse the bottle and ap|
ply to the bud of the cotton by a
shaking or plugging motion, dropping
two or three drops in the bud
of the plant. This method requires
less of the mixture per acre and
keeps it thoroughly agitated all the
time. We find that none of the
mixture should be carried over
night, as it is hard to mix the next
morning. No more should be mixed
than can be used during the day
and it should be thoroughly stirred
before pouring into the bottles (or
buckets of the mop is used.)
Randolph Gillespie applied the
mollasses mixture to three different
fields on the 12th, 13th, and 14th.
This morning (16th) he spent more
than an hour in these fields -searching
for weevils. He found no live
weevils and no recently punctured
squares. There were many weevils
in the fields before the poison was
applied.
J. L. Jordan was picking about
fifty weevils per acre from his fields
before poisoning. He poisoned on
the 8th and 9th and on the 12th and
13th. He sent hands into the fields
to pick weevils and the hands could
find no weevils. Mr. Jordan and Mr.
Middleton went into the fields them'
selves and looked for some time and
could find none.
On Monday, the 12th -instant, we
poisoned the field near the Pedigreed
Seed company's gin and warehouses
in which numerous weevils had been
observed. On Wednesday we sent
about twenty hands into the field, offering
them two cents each for live
weevils. A few quit pretty promptly
on not finding any weevils. About*
fifteen, however, kept looking for
some time, but none found a weevil
after going over about seven
acres. Mr. Sharpe, who was in
charge of the gang, raised the price
to five cents per weevil, but still
failed to find any. Later the price
was advanced to ten cents per weevil,
and not a single nana iouna a weevu
after searching for two hours.
George J. Wilds, plant breeder
of the Pedigreed Seed company, carried
out the following experiments
during the past week.
/ Test No. 1.
At 1 p. m. on the 10th instant,
nine hills of cotton were treated^
with the molasses mixture. There
"nlonto in oaf>h hill and only
aic tnu f/iuuwu AM _ v
one of the plants in each hill was
treated. Twenty-one weevils were
placed on these nine hills, about onehalf
being placed on the poisoned
plants and the rest on the unpoisoned
plants. At 6 p. m., the nine hills
were examined with the result that
six living and six dead weevils were
found on the treated plants. At 2 p.
m., on the 12th the same plants were
! examined and two live and eight dead
weevils were found. At 9 a. m. on
the 14th, the plants vwere again examined
and no live weevils and ten
dead ones were found. As weevils
-move about considerably at this season
it is assumed that all that re
mained .on the treated hills were destroyed
within the test period. The
mixture used in this test was onehalf
gallon water, one gallon molasses
and two pounds calcium arsenate.
Test Xo. 2.
At 1 p. m. on the 10th instant, ten'
hills were treated with the following
mixture: Eight gallons of water,
three gallons molasses and ten
pounds calcium arsenate. And on the
ten hills twenty weevils were placed.
At 6 p. m., on the same day, four living
and five dead weevils were found.
At 9 a. m., on the 14th, one live weevil
and eight dead ones were found.
Mixture used above is very light and
dries up quickly.
Test Xo. 3.
Same mixture was used on test No.
3, under about the same conditions,
and 75 per cent, of the weevils succumbed.
Test Xo. 4.
In test No. 4 a mixture of five gallons
of molasses, five gallons of water
and seven and one-half pounds of
calcium arsenate was used on five
hills. Twenty weevils were placed on
the five hills. At 8 a. m. on the 13th.
no living and four dead were found.
On the 14th, a shower having fallen
during the night of the 13th, another
search for weevils was made and
three additional dead and live ones
or Killing
D. R. Colder
were found.
The results of these experiments
seem to show that where a liquid
containing at least one-half molasses
and at least three-fourths of a pound
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used, 100 per cent mortality occurs
within four days.
The fact that a good many of the
weevils placed on the plants were
unaccounted for does not modify the
value of the experiemnt as our experimenters
observed some weevils
to fly away immediately on being
placed on a plant.
The cotton surrounding these experiments
had not been treated with
poison of any ikind.
I have had two letters from G. M.
Xorris, of Vance, Orangeburg county,
S. C., who last year applied on or
about July 10 a mixture of one ajid
one-half pounds calcium arsenate and
one quart of hot water mixed with
one gallon of molasses. He stirred
the water and arsenate for
thirty minutes before1 mixing
with the mnlasses and aDDlied
with a mop. He says one-man or boy
can apply to four acres per day. He
gathered 900 pounds of seed cotton
per acre and only made 200 to 400
pounds per acre on the balance of
the farm. He does not consider this
test positively conclusive, owing to
the fact that he had no untreated
cotton in the field with treated cotton.
He is confident that the poison was
responsible for 'his comparative success,
in a section which was almost
wiped out by the weevils last year..
The cost of the mixture, Mr. Norris
OOT7C- TT-Or. twontv t A f wPn t V?fi VP ppnfs
?J) uuo m vuwj w w ?? w** > w ? -?
per acre.
All the farmers who have reported
on the use of the mixture in this section
agree that the cost is between
fifteen and twenty-five cents for materials.
Mr. Norris reports that most
of the farmers in his section are using
the molasses calcium arsenate
mixture this year, and so far as he
has heard they are pleased with the
results.
I cannot be certain that by the use
of calcium arsenate-molasses treatment
any farmer will make a crop of
cotton and I can only be sure that
unripr thp weather conditions we
have had here since May 30 that the
vast majority of the weevils have
been killed and that few weevils are
left in the treated fields and few
punctured squares are appearing. The
cost of the application is so slight
and the results appear so manifest
that I feel that every farmer can ill
afford not to invest twenty cents per,
acre application for this treatment,
and apply it several times at intervals
of a week or ten days. There is not
the slightest question that ihillions of
weevils have already been killed by
this treatment during the past ten
days, and it stands to reason tnat
his has done some good.
DAVID R. COKER.
Hartsville, S. C., June 18, 1922.
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The discovery was made this afternoon
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Sheriff Anderson has given much
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After living a year and a half with
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Mrs. Simmons said Mrs. Gaul dressed
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cook, courted her and continued
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She said three weeks later
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