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ml^c: vT yjr* "a ? \ - - J .5 % iy / | Boll Wfcevil Pests With Calcium I x "<? Arsenate That Has Been Tested " T r. j. /? i " HAVE COUNTY AGENT ' SEND OFF SAMPLE W,,o? Wcevn7-icra dant Each Farmer ill % ' ' Wa,?t to Know What to Do. . 1 Many valuable lessons have been gained from the- recent expansion of, comfnercial weevil poisoning. It lias' again been shown that the holl weevil i can be poisoned th profit if coidi-i tions are favorable and if properi methods are used, but it has been em-} phasfo'ed anew that unfavorable conditions and improper methods can j lead only to failure. A survey of thej poisoning by farmers in 1920 shows that an unfortunate large proportion were not properly informed as to the conditions under which they should [ poison and the methods they shouldj pursue. As a result there wore many "uinuvjessai y failures. If better results j are to he secured in the future, therefore, the operations must be more thoroughly understood. The following circular, issued by the United! States Department of Agriculture,] eives. in as brief and concise a form! as possible, tho information needed by a farmer in deciding, first, whether it will pay him to poison, and second, the methods he should follow. Weevil poisoning is fully as important an, operation as cultivation and deserves as much serious thought and attention. Unless you are willing to undertake it in this manner, you should not attempt to poison. * Study these instructions carefully and follow them as closely as your condi-' tions will permit. Where Will It Pay You to Poison?! It will pay to poison? If the weevils are really injuring] your crops seriously, and If your land is sufficiently fertile to yield at least one-half bale per acre with weevil injury eliminated,! and If your farming organisation is such that you fee! assured that the poison applications will he made at the right time find in the right map ner. and If you are willing to spend the full amount "necesary to provide an adequate supply of dusting machinery and poison. The general gains from 'weevil poisoning* under average, fairly favorable conditions seems to he from 200 to 400 pounds of seed cotton per acre, but owing to variations in degree of weevil injury it is not safe to expcct much more than the lower figure. Consequently, you should not poison if the cost of the calcium arsenate, the cost of the labor to apply it, and the depreciation op the dusting machines wiH total more per acre than the current value of 100 pounds ef seed cotton. IIMnd guns should he figured as depreciating 100 per cent in a season and the larger machines aboi l; per cent. What Darting, Machine Should You lTse? Make your acreage allots.according to the following .schedule, and buy a sut plus rather than a shormge of mnehines, as this v HI save you nlonev. Hand Gvns. Do not allot over 8 acres to <ne nano gun. Do noH, attempt over acres in one OM'fc'ani:::1* ion with ham' Do net suoply individual tenants with hand suns and expect iV'.ch to care for hi- cron successfully independent of the others. Use.hand jrups only wAen no oilier machine is suitable.One-Mule Machine. This term is used to devcribe thci new type of one-wheel, one-nude machine whicfi is .iust being* placed on the market. It; sells at a medium price and is suitable for small farn s. This machine will cover from !n to 20 acres in a nieht of operation. It should not be alloted more than (' acres for the season. This machine has only two nozzle; liut will usually cover three rows ai a trip. ' . Cart M \chine. t>iw i "* -* T'li/i term is used to <lescri'>o the two-wheel, two-mule machine yhici straddles a row of cotton. It is tlv type most suitable for larj*e farmers rn I l ? l Ml P <j f i nis marnine win cover u-om .ito 80'-acres in a nigrht of operation. One of those machines should hr al lotted not more than 1 no acres of in fested cotton fov the season. This machine ha* three nozzles, hu will usually cover four rows at a irir How (o Poison. Use only pure calcium arsenate i r* >* the form of a dry powder. / pply this only in a dust form. Purchase this to conform to th f()I'ovvinjr speeif icat ions: Not less than 40 per cent total ai fonic pentoxid. Not more than 0 |. per cent watei soluble arsenic pentoxid. Density not less than 80 or moi than lOO cubic inches per pound. Have your county agent send sample of your calcuim arsenate 1 the Delta Laboratory, Tallulah, \.i for free analysis to make sure th; jt is satisfactory. Use only dusting machinery espe ially constructed for cotton dustin Poison *n(v when the air is cal find the plants are moist. This pi a ,k Wit:', 'i t- i 1 * *rf . r ..ii fcicaUy means making only night applications. Start poisoning when the weevils', have punctured from 10 to 15 per centl of the squares. Keep your cotton thoroughly dusted until the weevils are under control. This usually means about ,.three applications at the rate of one every four days. ' r Then stop poisoning -tin til the weevils again become abundant. If the weevils become abundant early enough to injure year young boll?, make one or two more applications late in the season. If you have a heavy rain within 21 hours aftSr dusting, repeat this application immediately. l>o not expect to eradicate the weevils. Poisoning merely* controls them suf fieently to permit a full ciop of cotton and you can always find weevils in the successfully poisoned field. iveep your cotton acreage low and do everything possible to increase your yield per acre, as it cost just as much to poison one-quarter bale per acre cotton as a bale per acre, cotton Always leave an occasional portion of a cut unpoisoned for comparison with the adjoining poisoned tract. This will show how much you have increased your yield by poisoning. Tf you are considering poisoning, write the Delta Laboratory at Tullulah, La., for more detailed information; aslo ask the advice of your county agent. o? VOLKTH'S DOKSNT MIX WITH EDUCATION Washington.?Politics and education don't i7iix, P. P. Claxton, feder:^ commissioner of education, contend-. Their association in state school systems is bad for both, he finds and the sooner they are permanently divorced "the bettor it will bo for education and all that is dependent on it." "Our political parties do not diffei J in roimrd lo educational principles oi 0 practices any more than they do in regard to the ten commandments and the moral code," the commission er said in a statement arguing the point. Wise and effective adminis tration of a system of public schoo1 :'ng that has "just growed up" like Topsy, but now involves an average expenditure of $25,000,000 a year ny [each state, requires ability and dovotion, he said, and should "wholU | separate from and independent of! j partisan politics." To reach thi<* end, tho commission | outlined a uniform system which !might be adopted, he said, in all 'states. This wm'd include a n?nI partisan, non-professional elected or j appointed state boa^d of education r'made up of men and women of af fails'* arid representing fairly ai; sect'ons of the state. The seven t< nine members would serve novon o nine-year tonus with one term expiring each year no member to Ik 'eligible to reappointment in order t^? j bring in new blood. Members would be non-removahlrv except for causo i and the board would elect its own 'chairman and its members receive a j "liberal" per diem instead of salary. I "Large salaries," Mr. Olaxton said, "wfuihl f omnl. mom hers to trv and earn the;r salaries )>v meddling with I execat^ve details properly oeJonpruur i to employes of the board," and, lie j added, would attract "men atul wonic [of small ability" to the job:-. I The bosr<' should cxercis? frenera' i conti'ol over alt .state educational in. stiti'.lio'is of every kind excopt. po ? ] sibly, universities or co'lerres. lb." | commissioner holds. Its functions should be "wholly legislative" however, and its members undertake cxleeutive work only in specific rases asi signed by the board. An elected or appointed eornmisioner should be fche 1 executive office)' and secretary of the J i'o-rd, his selection and appointment by the non-pai tisan b >ard itself beiiij.'; , lesirable in Mr. Claxton's judgment. I .\ well selected and adequate staff 1 for the commissioner's office would ! ab:o be required and the responsible ; department of education thus set up i becomo the leader in all educational j matters. | "It is neither safe nor e;ood that thr leader be weak or blind," Mr. C'.axtor said. "Whcve there is no vision, thf people perish; where there is weak nof s in place of strength, there can be !ionly stagnation and death, where there should be progress and life." ! PEOPLE O? OUR TOWN i 'j M 1*T ? f j **>*+. JLwr ill" i "C, The Hon llorder is Peeved, for OI | Stupid, the Prize Booh of the Unlvers 51! was over in the neighbor's New Garde toj and well nigh 101 Up everything I Sight and the Neighbor vows tin 1 i Stupid will yet Grace a Flatter at Ii c_ Sunday Dinner. Raising chickens, ill ? Raising Children, Is IOasj*?In tl m" Books. c-*# /. * * FARMTOS WARYBEST OF BOOKS Increasing His Success Where Well Kept From Year to Year v? . - . GOOD PAPER AND GOOD BINDING Keeps a Record Which Turns Out Many Advantages For Him A well-kept diary is the most in-1 teresting and valuable volume in "its j owner's library, and the detenuii a- j tion to maintain such a record frequently is expresed in the form of a New Year's resolution. Unfortunately, however, that is the first "good intention" permitted to lapse, observations by the United Stales Department of Agriculture have shown. Valuable in the future. For the farmer, the diary will preserve a record of farm happenings and personal experiences which will !>c valuable in the future conduct of his business. If, when he finds his alfalfa field swarming with grasshoppers, he can look back in his diary to a summer 10 years before and find the posion-bait formula that controlled the insect then, he will ;ave much valuable time, lie may wish to know the exact location of a tile drain that was laid down when lie was a youngster} If the event was noted in his own, or his father's diary, a 10-minute persual will 'jivo him more definite information than a day's digging with a spade. There are dozens of farm problems < ? - iu..< i cncouiuereu uvim j' yctu i uin i > s i>i | be solved more easily if the farmer had access to a complete chronologij cal history of his property. Such a diary entry as that which follows may not seem of value at the time it is made, hut it may influence a business transaction or earn a farm profit when it is re-1 read under different circumstances: | "Wednesday, May 12, "Weather warm and cloudy. Limed the f>-acre lot south of the orchid. Applied 1 ton to the acre and inoculated for alfalfa with soil from tho Brig^s lot. Met James Leonard and agreed on the repairs of the lino fence between his farm and mine. He maintains the fence as far as the Mill Brook, and 1 am to cure for it from that point to the shore >f the pond. Took chickens out of incubator. Had 130 from ltfO ogurs." Three Purposes of farm Records. The diary may he given a prominoiif nlace in the bookkeeping: rcc ords of the farm business. rally speaking, there are throe purposes to be served by farm accounts: (1) To determine the farm investment. receipts, expenses, and the net income of the business. () To furnish the net returns from any individual farm enterprise and to supply, specific information as to its details. (8; To obtain a memorandum of what other people owe you and what you owe them . The blank forms necesary for a simule accounting system can be worked out by the farmer himself, or he can apply a system recommended !>y 1 i > county agent. Ho also can obtain information direct from tlie O'l'iee of Farm Management and l?'arm Kconoinics, United States Department of Agriculture. The chief advantage of a farm accounting system. which is a part of the farm diary, is in the additional interest furnished by the personal items. The diary supplies items of supplementary interest which usually are left , out or the accounts. Without the , diary, the task of keeping the books I of the farm business becomes dry and uninteresting. Only persistency and practice will ( 'make one an adept at writing n , diary. The only rule which can bo followed is that the entnos must be ? kept; interesting, and in choosing at; , interesting high light in the day's work one must have an eye to the ruture. as well as to the present. T1 '' ito write the lecords n ',<?uln iy. A'ake in the diary e'.erj joveninp; at a certain time, and con I sider it as a part of the daily rou lino. Oree the owner commences t< i: ht his diary, its failure is ccr {lain. Man's memory is weaker thai it s^oms, and it can . cldom ;>e trust ,cd to hold accurately t<> the thing1: i that happened yesterday. Putting off a writing until the fo ! lowing: evening means the end of hi ,? ?; Monuments Dealers In Marble and Granite I and Iron Fcncmg. I See us or write before buying 'I Jl and we will send our reprej sentative to see you. ,'J Lumberton Marble &; in Granite Works it 18 J. H. FLOYD, Prop. ce le v L OMBKBfON, N. C. $ torical accuracy, and w$th th* big of minute accuracy g<^s a!mo the w valufe of the diary as a record of r< business and personal affairs'. t Best 'Material Essential. It never tjays to use inferior \n#- B\ teriats in the triakin# of a farm ~ c)?ury; tljic v^ork js l'nQ porta nt enough j( to merit; the use of good tools. Good ^ p/lper and binding, a g<?od pen, and k M that will not fade in a few ^ years are essential ju. preparing a v volume that will j^row in value and p] Interest as* Us age increases^ It is n a mistake to think that a sniall blank hook is< sufficient. The limited size of the sheets makes the writing 1 cramped and uncomfortable and de- j' tracts froni the pleasure of writing* 1 jap the record. While a diary can hardly supply the* required amount of bookkeeping for a lar^e and extensive farm Imsi- t ness, it does record facts and figures t that are never preserved in any oth- v or form. \ MOl)ERN?" BABEL I : OF 70' TONGUES I i i Its Name Moans "Hot" and the '< Town Certainly Lives Up t to Its Meaning. "Fiflis, to the westener with hazy j map notions of the near east, is lost ! in a sea of 'TV-?Teheren, Trehizond it with the rest as 'somewhere east \ and Tabriz?and he is likely to tag , of the Bosphorus' and let it go at National Geographic Society in rethat?" says a bulletin issued by the gard to the latest of near eastern [ capitals to be reported as attacked ' !>*' UnloKni'ilr f nl'pfvc; l' ? icuv?ii\ ivj.vv.in "But Tiflis has an idividuality that should sot it apart from Persia and j Turkish *owns. It is the capital of , Georgia?the hoary former kingdom of Georgia, which lies just to the , south of the Caucassus, and which Ru ssia absorbed in 1801 to mark for] a century her farthest advance south, i "Tides has well over a third of j | a million inhabitants, which makes j it a city bigger than Seattle or Kan- j sas City, slightly smaller than Minn- | eapolis or New Orleans. And yet in a sense it is a cross-roads communI ity?one of the most important 'Cross-roads' in the world. It is midway along the Trans-Caucasus railway which extends between the | Black and Caspian seas, meeting the I latter at Baku, the great oil town of Asia. And it is crossed by a north and south post and military ! road which pierco the g.veat rampart j of the Caucasus to the north. Thus i Call's 15 T* * II he contest wc started sc tickets will please bring numbers and prizes: No. No. ; a m I m \m? :| ^ Pf SI I i he YOUNGER MA bccause he finds m thcr and fabrics, and the fi 5, -I I / v / > "/ D A f A A J / 4l' v J: ,)J ' /i \ ;Vi / 11 v, Ir.-vn* lor Iheir youthful i. j j | v,, l!l \l/r. V\ n vp nrf?i 1 lofit l Iv# v i rn i v> ii .w J/* v/i i i vut. New York. Attractive OUR < You Gents F estern'AW and southeastern Eu- < i>pe both play tribute to Tiflis. "As a result of this location Tiflifc* ; a modern Babel. Seventy lanuages are said ty> be spoHen in its treets and bazaars, and unless Tiflis utyes can wheedle and. swear in at >ast a do sen languages they are seless. Armenians are one' of tho irgest ajien factors in the populaion; and besides these the nighrays have brought Russians, Perians, Turks, Afghans, Tartars, GerianSj and representatives of the lore than a hundred tribes and ationalities that have been cast up ll the reefs of the Cauc:/ms in the liousandfi of years during: which the acial tide has ebbed and flowed in outheastern Asia. "And in addition to the aliens here are of course the Georgians hemselves; the men big, stalwart, re! 1 built and armed to the teeth; lie women graceful, with finely cast eatures and wonderful complexions. loth the men and women of Georgia :re generally accepted by travelers tnd students of human types to be he handsomest branch of the white ace. Put handsome as the men are, t is for the beauty of its women hat Georgia is famed, "They are a light-hearted, merry oik, * the Georgians, lovers of feasts tnd dancing and singing. Not inippropriately, perhaps, Tiflis is a vrcat wine center, where is marketed lie heavy vintage from the vines hat grow to perfection in the Caucasus foot hills. And so it is hardly stretching a point to say that riflis is, in a not undesirable sense, i city of wine, women and song. "The name 'Tiflis' is derived from \ term meaning 'hot' or 'warm town' and whether one considers the summer temperature, tho natural hot baths, the riot of colors in the bazaars, the complexion of the women, .1 - l n,? ,^,..^1^. me it*iiipei auneiii. ui vnu ui the lively atmosphere of the metropolis, it fully lives up to the implications of its title. "The city is set aside of the swift live)- Kur in a valley rimmed by barren hills. To the traveler expecting to see a typical Asia city, the Russian and European part of Till is is a revelation. The wide, well-paved, tree-fringed and electric lighted Golovinsky prospect is the Fifth avenue of the near east. On it is the handsome, one-time vice-regal palace, in recent years the capital of Georgia, numerous other government buildings, well-equipped art shops, cafes and many other modern buildings. "Erivan square, the center of the modern part of Tiflis, might almost be rechristened 'Times square' 01 'Picadilly circus.' It is the heart of ji ^?5 V>UXlL<c3fi5 veval months ago closed Sat them to our store. 1 lie io 429?A SUIT OF CLC 328?A. GOOD MAT 2482?A SHIRT ,(K3b ^jW|\ I y/ \ (r [/ \ /"A / f 1 /y / , I ^ \m nnv<s <znrii7TV L 1 V i J W J L.J \-/ A L-J I JL Uf (U a ihe style leadership, the 1 nest hand-tailoring. 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