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Kill 1923 Boll Weevils During Fall (C. A. Whittle, Soil Improvemeni Committee.) One of the most effective steps ir boll weevil control is the early destruction of cotton stalks. Just as soon as the cotton can be harvested go into the cotton field and eithei turn under the cotton stalks or rif them up with a plow. The object is to destroy the cottdn plants. Weevils can not feed on dead cotton stalks. When their food is destroyed they migrate to where they can feed or else go into winter quarters. Whether they are thus driven away from your farm or driven into winter quarters the probabilities of their damaging you again next season are greatly reduced. river mn^t of the cotton belt it is possible to gather the cotton early enough to permit of the destruction of the cotton stalks three to four weeks before a killing frost will destroy them. Three to four week9 earlier in going into winter quarters means that death of weevils from starvation ,and cold will be greatly increased. It is the last weevils that go into winter quarters that cause damage in the cotton eofp the next year. If all of these were starved out by destroying cotton stalks early there would, of course, be an end of the weevil. While one can not expect that cotton ' will ever be destroyed early and completely enough to . accomplish a complete eradication of the weevil, it is true that to the extent that this is done the number of weevils and their damage will be reduced. Chopping down stalks leaves stubs that sprout new growth on which the ; weevil can feed; therefore, the only safe way is to uproot the stalks or else, with the aid of a drag chain, to turn them completely under the furrow slice. Knowing that many cotton farmers do not plow deep enough to cover up cotton stalks, the safest general ad vice is to uproot the stalks with a plow and to watch that no new growth starts up. As long as there is green cotton growth left in the field, the weevil will be found. It will crawl into a lock of cotton or half opened burr to keep warm and come out when the sun shines to feed on the green stuff. BDon't burn the cotton stalks. Let them lay on the ground. When the ground is plowed they can be turned under where they will decay and add the organic matter which the soils so much need. Why not organize a communitywide, or county-wide movement for the early destruction of cotton stalks? It means less trouble from the weevils next year. i?i ? ARTIFICIAL STOMACHS. Department of Agriculture Is Using Them for Test Purposes. Experts of the Department of Agriculture have developed an ''artificial stomach" to test the digestibility of foods. A glass jar is used instead of the human tummy. "It is now possible to determine the digestibility of protein in foods and whether it is necessary to cook them without conducting feeding tests, thus saving much time and expense", the specialists assert. By the use of certain laboratory nnnoMtnc it io ovnlainod if "i<5 nn? Or }/?&iat U.9) AC AO -.V W ^ sible +o imitate at least a part of the digeslh ? nrocesses". Here is the plan: "The proteins to be tested, those from beans, for instance, are placed in ~lass containers in a dilute solution oi hydrochloric acid, similar to tha" f? v->1 normally in the stomach. Tin. . t oper quantity of pepsin is aided, and the mixture is placed in an "nc-bntor, where the temperature ic nLepi ai the same point as that of the human stomach, about 37 dev -cos ( r grade. uter a certain number of hours tie contents of the container are sampled and analyzed. The digestive effect is measured by the ratio of what is known as amino-nitrogen to total nitrogen. By rushing through cooked and uncooked protein from beans it is possible to determine which 5s the more easily acted upon by the chemicals in this artificial ? omacn, ana consequently uy mt stomach itself. "After the food has been acted upon by the pepsin and hydrochloric acid, it is treated with trypsin and 2 dilute alkaline solution, as nearly as possible like the digestive juices found in the small intestine. The second process tells the investigate what the probable digestive action or any particular food will be in the in testir.e." The department experts asser that the "artificial stomach" will tel if one pr o ein is more digestible thai anc-trpT- nnri whether it is more diges tible when cooked or raw. "Renew your subscription today. BELIEVE IT OK NOT [ But Here Is a Kight Interesting Snake Story. : I have been a regular reader of Woods and Waters for some time and i often see something real interesting, writes "W. O. B." of Ridgeland, S. C., > to the ediior of Woods and Waters , column in the Charleston News and Courier. I notice H. A. R.'s doubts ? about the power of snakes to fasci; nate or charm their victims, so I will relate what I saw on Wednesday, the 13th instant: I had been out to one of my corn fiplds some distance from the house and carried my gun along, as the . field is entirely surrounded by swamp i and hummock land, and something ! had destroyed a quantity of corn. I saw nothing to shoot, however, and started back home, when I walked up j . .to a la^rge rattler lying out straight, but with his head to a tree, which I. noticed "was a hickory. The snake seemed to be looking up the tree. I kicked some trash on it, but it paid no attention to it at all. Then I discovered some particles of hickory nut falling and immediately remembered the stories I had so often heard of a snake charming a squirrel, so I stepped back about twelve or fifteen feet and sat down with my back to a small tree, where I could look both at the snake and up the tree he was watching. In a few moments a nut dropped and I saw a squirrel run out on a limb to get another. He got it and started back to the tree, but stopped about naiiway and looked down. I could not at first tell but what it may have seen me, but, on looking down at the snake, I saw it slowly coiling as if getting ready for business and it began to ring its rattles very slowly and very low. I looked back at the squirrel and saw it crossways on the limb looking down. It would turn back and forth a9 if very restless. \It dropped the nut it had just picked and slowly went back to the tree and began to come down, but it stopped at every limb and looked at the snake. I soon found it was paying no attention to me, as I used my hat to brush mosquitoes and it appeared not to see it at all. After it passed the limbs of the tree in its descent it would crawl very slowly for a few inches and halt a moment. I remembered I had been told that if one were to shoot a snake at such time the squirrel would fall dead, but I wanted to see the finish. So I sat there and watched. In a few minutes the squirrel came to within about three feet of the ground, when suddenly the sivake struck and caught it by the head. The squirrel never moved, not even a foot or its tail. The snake held it a moment and looked around as if defying anyone or anything to interfere. Then it proceeded to lick the squirrel a little bit, but not nearly so much as one would imagine before he slowTy swallowed it. Then I shot the snake and hooked a sharp stick in its head or neck, as the head was shot off, and I dragged it back toward home until I came to some hands working in the hay field, when I t /.Ht thp snake oDen and took out the squirrel for all to see. Now here is another strange thing: Just a few hours-later one of the negroes killed another rattler near the one I had killed and dragged there. They say it followed the trail. Did it really do so? I do not know. And did* the snake charm the squirrel? It looked so,'at least, yet I never believed it before. I am in my fifty-sixth year. I never saw such a thing before and never expect to again. Insect Kills Boll Weevil. Pee Dee Advocate. A bug that kills the boll weevil has been found. He has been found in .Marlboro county and caught in the act. He was found by Mrs. Floyd Prevatt near Lester last Saturday on a quilt in her yard, with his bill thrust into a boll weevil and holding , the impaled weevil up in the air, ' sucking the life out of it. i Mr. Prevatt put the bug into a bottle with several boll weevils and the bug immediately attacked them by sticking his bill into their backs and L sucking them to aeatn. several [ weevils-were killed in a few hours, j This weevil killer is about a half inch long and a quarter inch or more I wide. He is black with a ^mall yel; low spot in the middle of his back, i and yellow fringe on his wings. He ; has a long bill, tucked back under 5 his throat when not in use. When in i action this bill is thrust into the r weevil, as the weevil punctures a i cotton square. Not Noiseless. t Alleyton: An' did Dooley's wife I make much noise when she knocked ! him out? O'Toole: Noise? Sure, an' I cud hear a pin drop. Alleyton: A pin? O'Toole: Yes, a rollin' pin. I [ I carroll s s. CARROLL teaches watches Watchmaker to and tell Jeweler = TH e truth Bdinbcr^, S.C? H| PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Fmririfs PSYCHIC TRANSMISSION. Word Alleged To Have Been Spoken by Baby Starts Discussion. New York World, Monday. New York doctors, while inclined to doubt the truth of the story in The World yesterday of a baby in Mason City, Iowa, who three times cried "Mother" distinctly five minutes after it was born, admitted that anything was possible in the way of psychic transmission. The mother declared the cry to be a repetition of the last word she uttered before going under the anaesthetic, which was ''mother". Dr. J. E. Marek, attending physi-j cian at the hospital where the child of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Zoutes was born, stands sponsor for the story. The patient's sister and three nurses, also in the room at the time, swore the voice rang out high and clear from the basket where the child lay. "It was the one word, "mother", with the accent on the second syllable more perfectly enunciated than I can speak it, because a child's voice can be sustained in a way that an adult's can not", said Dr. Marek. "It was not only clear, but loud enough to be heard half the length of the hospital?a pleading rather than a wailing call." No physician could be found in this city yesterday who knew.of a similar case. They suggested* that if the occurrence could be verified it would mean that-we are on the threshold of marvelous psychic discoveries, possibly of establishing thought transference as an accepted thing. Seeks Natural Causes. Dr. John D. Vuackenbos of No. 823 West End avenue, member of the London Society for Psychical Research, had several explanations to offer. "My first inclination would be to hunt for natural causes of Jthe nVionnmonrm nf thp vnir.p issuine from V *. V ?w . w the child", he said. "It is possible that the mother while partially under the influence of the anaesthetic developed ventriloquistic powers. It may have been her voice projected into the baby's basket. Or it might have been an inarticulate cry strongly resembling the word 'mother'. "I have never heard of a case like this", he went on. "I do not hesitate j to say that in birth there is a projection to the child of maternal love and close solicitude. From a scientific j standpoint it is hard to see how the ) speech machinery could be in perfect J enough condition five minutes after birth to make articulation possible." Parallel Cases Lacking. Inquiry among tlje largest maternity hospitals failed to disclose a parallel case. The resident obstetrician of Bellevue went so far a9 to say that certain of the 110 children a month born there give cries resembling the word "ma-ma" or "mother". "We have never seen a child with the organs of speech fully developed at birth", he said! "I should be inclined to ask if the hospital where the occurrence took place were a religious institution. Possibly the remark reported made by one of the nurses that 'the voice sounded like the voice of an angel' might be found to be the key to the mystery." Dr. Gilfillen of the Lying-in hospital, Second avenue and 17th street, said: "Nothing like that has ever occurred here. Everything is possible, but fewer things are probable. Only a neurologist could tell you authoritatively whether ideas can be transferred from brain to brain. Just their r-fxr m o xr h a VP cr?n n (i pd Xilldg 1 uailun \-i J mu.. u like mother, I should say", he finished. Dr. Wallace B. House, a professor of nervous diseases, of No. 135 West 78th street, head of the neurology department at the Homeopathic Medical hospital, was questioned. "I should be inc^ned to call it an accident", he said. "I have never come across -cases where mental conditions seemed to be transferred from one brain to another. Inheritance is an open question anyhow. A weakened constitution can be inherited, but that is practically all we know." Dr. Pannell of the Sloane Women's hospital was emphatic in his denial of the possibility of such an occurrence. "Never in my knowledge have I heard of anything like that", he said. "Some of us noticed the story in The World this morning, but gave it no credence. 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