The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 24, 1921, Image 8
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Boll Wfcevil Pests With Calcium I
x "<? Arsenate That Has Been
Tested "
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" HAVE COUNTY AGENT
' SEND OFF SAMPLE
W,,o? Wcevn7-icra
dant Each Farmer ill
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Wa,?t to Know What to Do.
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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 .
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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.
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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
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"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.
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FARMTOS WARYBEST
OF BOOKS
Increasing His Success Where
Well Kept From Year
to Year
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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
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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
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Monuments
Dealers In
Marble and Granite
I and Iron Fcncmg.
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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'.
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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
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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
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II he contest wc started sc
tickets will please bring
numbers and prizes:
No.
No.
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I i he YOUNGER MA
bccause he finds m thcr
and fabrics, and the fi
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Iv# v i rn i v> ii .w J/* v/i i i vut. New
York. Attractive
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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,
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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
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veval months ago closed Sat
them to our store. 1 lie io
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urnishing
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