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Raising Cotton Under g Weevil Conditions Warrenton, Ga., Sept. 8.?Farmers from approximately fifty different counties o'i Georgia today made a pilgrimage to the farm of C. R. Fitzpatrick, prominent Warren county planted and business man, to see^ith their own eyes King Cotton success, fully produced under boll weevil conditions. The Fitzpatrick plantation, which comprises around a thousand acres of gravel sandyloam soil, is hardly more than a mile from this town. Just now in the neighborhood < of seven hundred acres of this land is ripe with a mantle of white that reminds one of the real cotton produc ins days before the advent of the dread boll weevil in this section of the state. From far and near, even from the Savannah near the coast to the foothills of the Blue Ridge, farmers came to witness this complete victory over their arch enemy whose devastations has taken a sickening toll during the past few years. They saw probably more than they expected and every man of them left yesterday afternoon for his home fully convinced that the boll weevil can be out-done and that Georgia can, by application of the ' .proper methods of warfare,' return to a successful and profitable production of its staple crop. Early in ;the day automobiles began arriving here, some parties coming from such a distance that the trip could not be made in one day. There were farmers present from Canton, located in the extreme north eastern part of the state, and there were farmers from Valdosta and Cordele in the extreme southern part. There was no definite way to determine the number of counties represented, but it was easy to see that had drawn farm found of the form stage. Aauit "weevils were present, too, because one was, found #on the coat of a member cf the party, but the weevil had been whipped and the piles of cotton / in *he fields already picked and the canopy of it on the stalks was even greater proof that he had been out s' ripped in a desperate fight to the finish. V i,:ht the Weevil. ?'r. Fitspotrick says that any farmer an acx.vi tplish what he has in growing cotton if he will only fight the weevil. He attributes his success tc that racA .entirely, saying that he started a>er the weevils early, kept it op coii-"'-'ently according to the instructions ,'urnished by the state * board of entomology and did not give up until ihe crop .was completely made. iTe used calcium arsenate dusting wrh it by means of a power duster. The cost of the poison, including the machinery he said, would amount to 5100 per plow or $5,000 Uftv lrm-s whieh he rinerated. He i." disappointed that he is not going to make a greater yield this yea** & ><: hdames it on the fact that he did vet ne enough fertilizer. He says that he used from 500 to 600 pounds per acre when he should have used ?Crt. ;ie plans to use 900 pounds per acre next year and expects to a bale of cotton to the acr>>. Mr. T^tzpatrick mixes his owe fertilizer. The normal yield on hit plantation Wore the weevil cam* was f om i.O ! 0 to 1,200 bales of cotton ho Wei, c nd he expects to react llic ill LCI tot tuuv ? ers from such distances that Georgia ctftton growers are becoming welded \ together into a solid front against the most aggressive pest that has ever beset the great money crop of the southland. , Insj>ection Begins. At 12 o'clock the long line of au' \ tomobiles, headed by a machine that ^ \ carried Mr. Fitzpatrick and members of the state board of entymology, left Warrenton for the Fitzpatrick cotton plantation. After five minutes' ride the first stop was made at one of the broad fields of cotton that has attracted the attention of the entire state. Negroes were at work in the field which was literally white. The weed wTas between knee and & ' waist-high. There was a prolific secw -ond crop of m-atured bolls, extra large and well developed, apparently hardy enough to withstand even the cunning bill of a boll weevil. Men experienced in growing cotton for many years agreed that the total yield in this . field would be one thousand pounds or more orseed cotton per acre. This t field lay alongside the Macon highway. The party then continued into ^he very heart of the plantation and found the crop to be almost as good in most instances. It was plain t?hat there were no prize patches and that the .yield was practically uniform. One stalk taken from the interior of the farm had 54 bolls on it, 21 open and 3 unopen. The boll, as a general rule, was full and the fiber of a good length. There were few scrub bolls, either opened or unopened. There was every indication that the boll weevil had been present. The top crop had suffered considerably from his ravages and grubs could be SMYRNA SCENE OF DESTRUCTION vSurpasses Anything of Like Nature in Modern History. Smyrna, Sept. 17.?Smyrna, which the Turks have called the eye of Asia, is a vast sepulchre of ashes. Only the shattered walls of 25,000 homes and the charred bodies of countless victims remain to tell the story of death and destruction unexampled in modern history. The ruins are still smouldering like a volcano which has spent its fury. No efforts has been made by the | Turks to remove the dead and dying. The streets are full of the bodies or those who sought to escape, for the most part women and children. Every building in the Armenian quarter has been burned with the dead lying about. The bay, which! covers an area of fifty acres, still carries on its surface the poor remnants of those who were massacred or sought 'to escape the ruthlessness of the fire. One water front holds thousands of survivors who 'fear death at the hands of the soldiers; there are no boatsHo take them off. One ship captain declined to take any of the wretched sufferers, but in contrast to his indifference Capt. Walters, of the American steamer Winona, rescued 1,800 and took them to Piraeus. American sailors of the destroyer Linchfield snatched 450 orphaned boys and carried them safely to Constantinople. The Jack Tars sleep on the iron decks or under the air tubes while the yohngsters 00 cupied their "bunks. In all the acts of gallantry by the Americans at Smyrna there was none more inspiring than this. While the orphans were being loaded on the little boat.H. C. Jacquith, HirpMnr of Near East relief, who More Than Willing. "Sir, would you give me $5, to bury a saxophone player?" "Here's $30. Bury six of them." ?Judge. that production again despite the weevil. He makes about four applications of the calcium arsenate at intervals of three to four days and carries out this process three or four times during the critical stage of the development of the plant. He is a great believer in picking up dead squares and destroying them. That means everything, as he expressed it to a group of farmers yesterday. "When you destroy a form you destroy millions of potential weevils, for there is no limit to the number of weevils that an adult will ultimately produce," he says. His theory about whipping the weevil is to fight, get mad and fight harder, fight so hard that the laborers get mad, too, i and fight.- "Everybody must fight to whip the boll weevil," he conclud1 ed. ' Mr. Fitzpatrick uses the Wanna> maker-Cleveland cotton seed and is 1 a great believer in a hardy, prolific seed, as one of the means of winning J the fight. He has devoted much att tention to the breeding of seeds, hav5 ing associated closely with him C. A. i Xelson, expert breeder of seeds, who - has his nffiees in Atlanta.?Atlanta 11 Constitution. came here recently from Constantinople, diverted the attention of Turkish guards, giving them cigarettes and talking to them in their native tongue. These guards are under strict orders not to permit the escape of any of the Greek or Armenian refugees, and on several accasions have shot to death fugitives endeavoring to reach outlying vessels by swimming. N Out of 300,000 Christians crowding the city prior to the descent of the Turks, only 60,000 have been evacuated. The Kemalist officials have informed the American relief workers that the return of the Christians to the interior meant certain death. The director of the Armenian orphanage established by the American committee for relief in the Near East, came to death by drowning in the presence of Mr. Jacquith, who is a director of that organization. WOMEN BEATEN, -REPORT. Told to Leave Town?Man and Oar Missing. 9 Asheville, N. C., Sept. 16.?A group of masked men intercepted an automobile in which a Mr. and Mrs. I Webb, of Greensboro, N. C., were riding near Taylorsvilte, N. C., Thursday night, and the woman taken from the car, blindfolded, gagged and threatened with her life, according to meager reports received here tonight. Mr. Webb and the car are reported as still missing with the officers of Alexander and Iredell counties !in search for Mr. Webb and the machine in order to gain more details. The woman, told to leave on the first train, or her life would be forfeited, according to the reports of the affair, left on a southbound train. Efforts thus far to obtain any clue as to the identity of the masked men have been futile. UNDERWOOD GETS LIFE. Convicted of Killing Oscar Mitchell, Ball Player. Greenwood, Sept. 17.?After deliberating sixteen and one-half hours, the jurors in the case of R. Clayton Underwood and Barry B. Hughes, charged with the murder of Oscar Mitchell, Greenwood baseball player, reported to Judge H. F. Rice this morning at 10 o'clock that they had agreed on a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree with recommendation to mercy in the case of Underwood but they could not agree on Hughes. Judge Rice then ordered a mistrial in Huges's case. In imposing the life sentence carried by the verdict, Judge Rice pronounced a warning against the influence of liquor. Underwood received the . sentence without a tremor but his wife, who had shown no emotion throughout the trial, burst into tears. Cover Crops During the Winter. The exfent to which forage crops and pasture supply feed for hogs^will determine the amount of profit made in the hog business. Since there are no permanent pastures that supply feed for the winter and spring, we must turn to forage crops for this part of the year.. September is the month for planting all crops for winter forage, and immediate attention should be given to this work. Rye, oats, vetch and rape are the best crops for winter pasture that we have in this section. -Rye is preferred to oats as it gives a greater growth during the winter months. A good mixture of these three, rye, vetch and rape can be made as follows: rye, 4 pecks; vetch, 1 peck, and 8 pounds of rape. Rye will grow on almost any kind of soil and so will vetch when properly inoculated but rape requires a very rich and well prepared seed bed. Best results are obtained when this mixture is seeded between Sept. 15 and October 15, although earlier and later plantings often prove satisfactory. A good soil building programme calls for cover crops during the winter months and by using the above mentioned crops not only are building our land but we are feeding our hogs economically and filling in a much needed ration that our brood sows must have to bring large litters of pigs. Cover crops are a means whereby we can hold fertilizer in the soil and prevent leaching, also add I nitrne-fm in the case with vetch. An ^CP" acre of vetch that produces a ton of hay will add nitrogen to the soil equivalent to 460 pounds of nitrate of soda.?John D. Brandon, County Agent. Greenville Man Drowned. Greenville, S. C.f September 15.? Robert McCarson, 21 of Brandon Mill village, was drowned in the Saluda river about 100 feet above the power dam Wednesday'afternoon. McCarson in company with a companion, Albert Davis, 15 years old, were out to spend a day in the woods. McCarson decided he would go in swimming, but the younger boy decided he would stay on the bank. After being in the water for a short time, he got back out on the bank and engaged in a playful struggle with the younger boy, finally picking him up, clothes and all, and throwing him into the water, according to the lad's statement. When the youngster fell into the water, it was soon evident to McCarson that the boy was a very poor swimmer and seeing his pal's danger, McCarson immediately leaped in to his rescue. He reached the lad but just as he was about to take hold of him, McCarson canaH with oramps. The young ?ao .. _ er boy then endeavored to save his comrade's life but was obliged in order to save his own life to break from the hold of the older man, who had by this time apparently lost his reason. Young Davis reached the shore safely and at once gave the alarm, but efforts to resuscitate the drowned man were unsuccessful. Up to the Doctor. Mrss. Potts's husband had beeE quite ill, but finally there was 2 change. When the doctor called anc had a look at his patient he am nounced: "He is convalescent." Whereupon Mrs. Potts regarded the physician suspiciously; and her sus picion increased when he made- nc further comment but prepared to go "Well, youse a doctor, ain't vo'?' she demanded. "Ain't yo' got nc ~ - * meci'cine to' ais convalescence; Taxpayers Get Further Help. Comptroller General Walter E Duncan issued an order to tne treas urers of the state on last Wednesday to extend the payment of taxes unti the first of October. This furthei extension is made under the provis ion made in the act providing such if necessary, which was passed by th< | general assembly last February. .School supplies of all kinds at Herald Book Store. MASTER S SALE. Pursuant to a decree issued by his Honor, Judge J. W. DeVor.e, dated January 4th, 1922, in the case of the Bank of Western Carolina, Blackville Branch, plaintiff, versus George Small, defendant, I will sell before the court house door,. Bamberg, S. C., for cash to the highest bidder, on the fiirst Monday in October, the same being October 2, 1922, legal salesday in said month, between the hours of sale, the following described real estate to wit: ''All that certain tract of land situate in Bamberg county, South Carolina, containing sixty-six acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Carolina Reed, J. C. Matthews, David Reed, and the Edisto River; being a part of the Bruce Keea piace, ana oemg the tract of land purchased by me . from the Master of Barnwell county under decree of court in the case of Ex-Parte Anderson McMichael, et al-., 1 as executors, etc." Terms of sale, cash; purchaser to pay for papers and U. S. revenue stamps. j. j. BRABHAM, JR., Judge of Probate and Acting Master of Bamberg county. Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 12, 1922. Jcakroi* s s CARROLL h teaches 9 watches Watchmaker to ' aoi i tell Jeweler h the I troth Bamberg, S. C. WHY SUFFER SO? . 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