The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 05, 1922, Page 6, Image 6
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. I doubt even if the effect
of the anaesthetic could make the
mother a ventriloquist."
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It was a summer evening and the
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New Orleans. A heated gentleman of
color was weaving his way down the
street when his attention was distracted
by a lighted bookshop winI
dow. He sidled up and carefully read
t the inscription:
I " 'If Winter Comes'? Special Next
Week ? $1.50."
"Mpfl" he ejaculated, mopping his
dripping brow. ''Ah'll gibe mo'n dat.
Ah'll gib fi' dollahs if wintah comes
special next week."
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