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Page No. 8 BOLL WEEVILS NOT ALL DEAD Clemson College.?"From letters coming to this office and from conversation with a few of our leading farmers whom 1 met while at the Pee Pee Station at Florence on June 21, and 22, 1 gather that some people have jumped to the conclusion from the data recently given to the press by Dr. N. E. Winters, Head of the Division of Boll Weevil Control, that all of the old overwintered weevils have died, and that the boll weevil situation is taking care of itself, says Prof. H. W. Barre, Director of Agricultural Research; upon his return from Florence* "This impression seems to me to he especially unfortunate. Dr. Winters certainly did not draw such conclusion from the cage tests, and the results themselves showed that at the end of the various tests an average of nearly half of the weevils remained alive in the cages containing unpoisoned cotton. Careful investigators claim that one pair of weevils to the acre when squaring! begins may increase rapidly enough to destroy fully half of the cotton in that acre before the end of the season. This hein.tr true, the mere fact that 50 percent or <>0 percent pf the overwintered weevils died in cages in : certain time does not in the least guarantee us against heavy weevil infestation as soon as the squares are large enough to he punctured. As a matter of fact, some fields under observation in connection with out experiments are already showing by actual count that from 15 to 20 percent of the squares 'iave been punctured during the past few days by overwintered weevils. Continuing Prof. Barre said: "I wish to emphasize the fact that there is nothing in the results of these cage tests or in our field work thus far to cause us to change our plans for weevil control, to to r:msp nnvmm to let up in the fight 011 the boll weevil. . i ' "I am convinced fro m results 6f our experimental work last season and from a close checking up of the re- ] suits this far this season that no one can grow cotton with any assurance of success without keeping up very close- ] ly with the weevil development and i infestation on every acre of his cot- j ( ton from the time squaring begins , until the crop is made. Poisoning op- j erations can not be directed effective-j ly and economically without the infor- j matioYi which can be secured only by careful infestation counts. ] "Squares are forming rapidly; . many fields will have enough squares formed in the next ten days to make \ a bale of cotton to the acre. The sur- , est way to make a crop is to save \ these squares. This can not be done by trusting to luck or assuming that i the weevils are all dead. I believe it , can be done if the farmer keeps him- , self posted as to the weevil activity , his field and applies poison properly." i O CHAKGliS AKSON | IN GREAT SUIT I A *' ; - t The first International Areo congress in Omaha. Neb.f Nov. 3. 1921, provided the material for a sensation- , ul melodrama now being acted before( Supreme Court Justice Mahoney and a iurv in New York. With the Commercial Union Assurance Company, Ltd., as plaintiff in a ; suit to recover $15,370 paid on a pol-l icy lovering the hangars and flying equipment of John M. Larsen, pioneer1 manufacturer of the all metal airplane in America, a score of other companie?, which paid $175,000 after a fire which destroyed Larsen's hangars at Central Park, L. 1. Feb. 8, 1022, are j awaiting the outcome of the test', case. . I The insurance companies settled c'aims principally on the strength of an affidavit made by Ernest Buell, a young German mechanic, brought to America by Larsen in 1020, who said he was working on a plane when the flame from an overturned blowpipe accidentally ignited the gaso'ine drenched floor. Says He Started Fire. Tn a statement last March before Referee Arthur Ofner, Buell said Larsen invited him to his home at 91st street and Riverside Drive, the day before the fire and olTered him $1,500 to set fire to the hangars. The following day, Buell said, he followed I ! 11 i ~ i i- - A IIIMII ucuuilh,. ttpi I ie?I iJ DUC'Ktl of gasoline upon the floor, lighted a match to apply to the blowpipe and threw it, Mazing, on the gasoline, then delaying calling for assistance until the middle hangar was in flame?. I* Charging, in his opening address to the jury. "I will now unfold to you ihe most amazing conspiracy that you have ever heard," Arthur (J. Hays, of counsel for Larsen, said the suit wtjs the outcome of the feeling caused when Larsen protested the award of the commercial airplane trophy to C. B. Wrightman's entry. As the trial progresses, Mr. Hays said, he will disclose that Wrightsman, son of a millionaire Tulsa, Okla., oil man, and known as the "Millionaire 6aby," in the West, came East in April, 1022, with Capt. E. F. White, of Fairhope, 111., his pilot, and immediately got in touch with the Schindler Detective Agency, of No. 149 Broadway, and that after satisfactory arrangements were made, an operative named Black was put on Ruell's trail. Intimidation Alleged. Female companions and drink were Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggist* refund money if PAZO OINTMF.NT fails to cure Itctifog, Hlind. Bleeding or Protruding rile*. Instantly relieves Itching Ps'~a. and vou jau got restful ?!--?? %fte- flrst anolicatiuu. wV* provided to Buell, and when months nad passed and more than $10,000 had been spent, continued Attorney Hays, without "results," Black hired a room in the Hotel Martinique the evening of Oct. 27, 1922, and lured Buell there with the promise of "entainment." Walter Schindler, head of the agency, and his manager, Ploger, according to the attorney, forced their way into the room and on threat of arresting Buell for violation of the Mann White Slave Act "induced him to take the line of least resistance and sign anything." Mr. Hays said the detective then went across the street to the Hotel McAlpin and dictated a "confession," which they forced Buell to sign. Buell was on the witness stand six and one-half hours yesterday under a searching cross-examination by William J. Fallen, of counsel for Mr. Larsen. Buell stuck to the main point of his statement before the referee, that his former employer paid him $1,500 to set the hangars afire. He told substantially the same story on direct examination by William Travel's Jerome. Won Many Trophies. [ Larson is internationally known. His all-metal JI. planes have won many trophies and he electrified the War College Oct. 22, 1{>21, with a demonstration of a JL-12 plane which swent low over the Potomnr vivaiv nf a speed of 140 miles an hour, with thirty machine guns spouting 45,000 shots a minute. Larsen is credited with making a fortune iu building ice machines and hpcominr interested in aeronautics, bought tlie American rights to the German Junker all-metal plane, and interested the post office department, the army and navy and other government departments in his all-metal passenger-carrving airships, spending nearly $1,000,000 in experiments. o FIXES BLAME FOR FIRE AT CLEVELAND SCHOOL St^te Insurance Commissioner John J. McMahan has made public his report of an investigation conducted by him personally into the Cleveland ^hoo1 disaster in Kershaw county on May 17, in which he places blame for the fire on preventable negligence in two instances?the hanging of the lamp above the stage, which fell and started the fire: and the construction r?f the narrow stairway where the 77 victims met death, stampeded to death in the panic that followed the fire on t,in little ?tne-p where the play had been started. The insurance commis" ner vent to Camden and thoroughly investigated every detail connected *vith thp fire. Mr. McMahan gives many interesting 'acts connocted vith the fire. The ceiling around the hook on which 'nine the lamp caught fire. A metal sheet intended to prevent too great heat against the ceiling had been lost [)fT. A man in the audience saw the ceiling on fire and went forward quietly to put out the blaze without attracting attention. A lady saw it ulso, and with her small child quietly slipped out of the building. She| pointed it to the man. The man lost his life in the school. The stairway was three feet wide. It was between two solid walls. At the bottom of 14 steps was another wall .and here the stairs turned on a three-foot landing. Below this landing were three additional steps, leading into a cloak room from which was the exit to out of doors. The doors opened inward, but that didn't mat er, if they were held open. The first rush was down the stairs. Children were dropped down the stairs and adults followed. Men and women who had escaped re-entered the stairs, in an effort to rescue others and caught in the jam added to the hopelessness of the situation. Two mothers, very stout, struggling to mount the stairs, were knocked back find helped to block the landing. The boroner, who lost his life, was a large man, crippled and bent over, and he A-as caught in the human mass, only to make the situation worse. The stairs did not fall, Mr. McMahan reports. If this had happened the crowd would have fallen into the room below and made rescue work easy. Nearly all of the deaths were caused by sufiication or physical injury under the surging crowd. Women and children were packed into the stairway as in a funnel. xv-; ^II I i^H?is tike a sr - g THE HORRY HERALD, C MALARIA CONTROL Recently three voluntary county malaria associations have been formed in three Southern States: The Sumter County Malaria Control Assocralion at Americus, Ga. The Cherokee Malaria Control at Rusk, Tex., and the Shelby County Malaria Control Association at Memphis. Tenn. The object of these county mosquito control associations is to endorse and support the efforts and activities of State, county and local health authorities in accomplishing malaria and mosquito elemination; to stimulate interest in the supression of diseasebearing mosquitoes that effect human comfort and health; to secure and spread information and to urge cooperative efTorts in the county by individuals, associations, communities and their governments to the end that these insect nuisances may be done away with. Mr. John W. Shiver, of Americus, Ga., president of the Sumter County, Ga., Association, induced his association to start active drainage operations in the county the day of his election and has appointed active delegates in each county school district. The Chamber of Commerce of Americus, Ga., is greal.v interested and feels the results of the work going on will increase the value of every acre of land in the county. The members of the Shelby County, Tenn., Association selected for their leader one of the most prominent business men of Memphis, Mr. Wm. C. Johnson. As president of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Johnson had much to do with its successful development, and is intensely interested in the elimination of i lalaria from Shelby County. He believes it will have a most important bearing on the growth and development of Memphis. i iivic mc MKill \ V;*JUHLItT!S in i'll! Southern States where malaria controy is every bit as important to their commercial and agricultural development as was the control of malaiia and yellow fever to the construction of the Panama Canal. Tt i<* encouraging to see these leaders of the prominent business men of the South devote their time gratis and identify themselves with such voluntary organizations . The results that can he accomplished by these and similar organizations will lead to such progress and development of the South a- she is justly entitled to. If your county has a mosquito problem it would be well for you to ask yourselves this question: "What help can we give to the State and local health authorities in handling this problem for us?" Possibly a Mosquito Control Association in your county is all that is needed to put the thing across. Ask your State health officer about it. Only r>r> of the 77 bodies were accounted for in the ruins. Many children were recognized by their features, two children who were at the bottom of he mass. One elderly lady of the town of Camden, twice married, lost 13 relatives and family connections. There was a porch on the front of the building. Many persons escaped over this roof. The Cleveland school was located in a community of "unusual prosperity r.nd very fine traditions of wealth and culture," reports the insurance commissioner. "The people in the county were related to the people of the town of Camden, and many visitors to the neighborhood school commencement lost their lives." o QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Front Specialists' Correspondence With Farmers How can I control bean rust? G. ft. D., Neeses. The only method of controlling bean rust is to plant a resistant variety. I would suggest also that you send us a sample of the rusted beans as it is just possible that the thing which you called rust in your neighborhood is not the same that we are in the habit of calling rust in the laboratory. What about growing fin* for canning purposes? Surest varieties.? D. M. Co.. Dunbar. The fig has not been grown in this r "7 ~ yi ' y x I S1SS??^ MB.:;.. i >IDER,WEAVING ? Y,SUCCESSFULLY,.^1. 7 INNING-,VWTH TRy ANQ / '? - : .' JKKVS?' f; / I ONWAY, S C, JULY 5, 1923 - ? SUMMER MARKETING OF HOGS. Clemson College.?Very few hogs will be shipped out of South Carolina this summer but a few words of warning to possible shippers suggested by D. T. Herrman, Extension Swine Specialist, may save some heavy losses. Disregard the minimum weight and load only what can be put in without crowding. The minimum can be loaded with safety only when the hogs average 250 pounds or over, and since our hogs will not'average that high, we should not try to secure the minimum load. Give the hogs an opportunity to, rest and cool off and to drink their fill before loading, especially if they are very warm from hauling or driving when received at the loading pens. Do not feed or slop heavily before loading. This practice causes excessive heating, and, therefore excessive shrinkage. Order cars in writing, specifying the length desired and demand dthat they be clean. Bed with sand. Straw increases the heat in a car. A few hundred pounds of ice suspended in bags in the car before shipping will prove cheap insurance against over-heating. o FIGHT THE PEACH TREE BORER Clemson College.?Owners of peach orchards are reminded that the time is approaching when the fight against the peach tree borer should be begun, f The usual method consists of painting* the trunks of trees with a special wash and mounding the earth around the base of the trunk in early June, these mounds to be taken down in the fall. Below are the instructions being furnished by the horticulturists. Between July 1st and 10th, paint the trunk of the tree with the trunk wash and then pull up the earth around the base of the tree to a height of 8 inches. Take the mounds down about October 15th. 1 Make a tree wash by the following formula: Quick lime 20 pounds Whale oil soap 3 pounds ^ Sulphur 4 pounds Water 25 gallons 1 Dissolve the soap in 3 gallons of hot water. Make a thin paste of the sulphur and add to the soap solu- ] tion. While the lime is being slaked 1 in a half-barrel, pour t*ie mixture j over it and gradually dilute the whole j to 25 gallons. 1 The wash is then ready for use and i should he applied while warm for . I , li T. 1 ?? ? nest results, it can oe appueci rapia- j ly with a stifT paint brush about three inches wide. This wash sticks well to the bodv i of the tree and remains long without ; cracking. It is very inexpensive and i can be applied very rapidly. Twentyfive gallons is a sufficient quantity to , wash 325 trees eight years old. In recent years borer control by "gassing;" the pest with paradich- . lorobenzine has proved efTective with , trees five years old and over. State to any extent for canning pur- j poses. There is no reason, however, why certain varieties should not be grown at a profit. The Celestial is deridely the most hardy variety and will give a heavier yield year after i year than any other. This is a medium sized fig of excellent quality, and i the tree is rarely killed even by our < severe winters. This variety usually produces two crops, one on the old wood and the second on the current year's growth. Other good varieties are the Brown Turkey and Magnolia. Neither of these varieties, however, is as hardy as the Celestial. The Lemon fig is also a good variety. This fig is of a large size, but is usually not as productive as the Celestial. o QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS From Specialists' Correspondence With Farmers What varieties should I plant for the second or fall crop of Irish potaWE do not sell you a Goodyear Tire and forget you. If we did, we'd lose the right to serve as the authorized Goodyear Dealer. We are pledged to see that you get out of the Goodyear Tires you buy from us every mile of the thousands built into A.I. .4 ? *. iiiviuawiiic iavioryt I I At Goodyear Service Station I I Dealer t im tell and recom- I I mend the new Goodyear I V. Cordt with the beveled AH- ' J / Weather Tread and back V them up With 11 andqrd Goodyear Service BUCK MOTOR CO. Conway, S. C. ?OODxlTEAR Vq CLAIMS SECRET CURING METHOD (Continued from page one) writer has something that he wishes to sell to the farmers for a cash consideration; or whether he has an idea of value in the curing- of tobacco that he wishes to give free to any person who may think enough of it to write to him. As in other things, so it is in the growing anil curing of tobacco, an invocation must be looked at with a critical eye before investing any money in it. The old ways may be best because the old ways have been tried and they are known for what they are. In the first place it would not appear to be possible that any certain days of the week could be any better than other days of that week for curing out a barn of tobacco. It would appear that other things besides the mere days of the week would have to determine the time when the tobacco leaf is ready for the curing barn. There is no doubt about *he tobacco leaf having in it a thing which belongs to it, a gum or juice in the j green leaf that will adhere to the hands of those who handle the plant. There must also be contained in it the sap which rises in all plants while they are in the process of growth and i^_i ? ? * ' development. now can a man tell that on Wednesday, for instance, there may be less sap and more gum in the leaves than there will be on the following day? There is an element of mystery in this matter which the Herald must know more about before* placing the name of this letter writer before the readers of the paper. Instead of publishing the Tetter with the name of the writer at once, a letter has been written to the author of the article asking what his purpose is in wishing this letter published. If he has an idea which he wants to sell to the tobacco growers of this section then he had as well come out and say so in the first thing off the bat; or if he has some idea gained from the practical experience of his father in the raising of tobacco. it is best for him to publish the whole thing to the world at once, if he wishes to givo this idea away for the benefit of others. % Things like this must be far removed from the realm of superstition. Such as that must be probed out of the heads of men and women if they are to advance and do things better than their fathers did. So long as there is the idea that there must be some sort of slight-of-hand or hocus pocus method used in arriving at the right time to do things, men and women will not use their minds in trying to observe things as they a re and learning practical lessons from them. If the right answer is received concerning this way of telling the best d-M-s for the curing of tobacco, the l'PJlflors nf flip HflvnlH mn\' ?r?r? mai-o about it in the next issue of the paper. If there appears to be nothing to it, it will fro the way of many other articles and will go to the waste basket. toes??K. W. M.. Westminister. I would advise you to plant nothing except the Lookout Mountain potato for a fall crop. I have grown the Cobbler. Green Mountain and Dther varieties in the fall for a great many years and have been, able to produce a pood crop from any variety except the Lookout Mountain. These potatoes should be planted during the last half of July. The tubers sprout readily and a perfect stand will be had about three to four weeks after planting. This variety keeps well ? torn I so ea i _ Ice-cold?pure and wholesoi the patented bottle which | the most sanitary package tl I be made. There's always ? 8&S 1 /*..* ? j|j! ntteci ice box near where I ready to serve you. Keep a few bottles on ice at Order by the case from your Every day in every way everything ix>ssible to sen H customers. |i thirst^ Drink I (&Cd'\ I Delicious and || Coca Cola Bot IX Conwaj through the winter ami early spripjfi. and may be kept over foir aeed without difficulty. How can I control downy mildew on cucuntber???M. M. E d i s to inland. Th? oroper method of control for thia disease ia to spray with Bordeaux mixture, the 4-4-50 strength, applied eve* lor aays to two weeks during the growing season. To make control certain you should begin early in the season as it is much more difficult after the fungus once gets a \ start. k What is your advice in regard to removing the soil from around onion .bulbs??F. G. St. Carmel. As the onion bulbs develop the soil may be gradually worked away from from them, but greatest care should be taken not to disturb the onion roots as they are always very cloAfi to the surface. If about 1-3 to V'M of the onion bulb is exposed, that ra all that is necessary. The best plan I believe is to cultivate the onions flat and when it matures the bulb will be partially above the surface of the ground. I DONE ON CREDIT. Don't worry with or about your eyes. Come to see us and let us solve your problem for you. It is better to know that your eyes are all right than to guess. We have the latest styles in glasses. We will he at Horry Drug store every 1st and 3rd Mondays of eachLmonth. f Yours for service, L. A. WOODRUFF, D-Opt. Eye Sight Specialist. 6|21-tf. How Thin People Obtain a Plump, Strong, Robust Body. ^ "Before I took Prunitone people used to call me 'skinny/ hut now my narjne is changed. My whole body is stout. Have gained 15 Tbs., and am gaining yet. I look like a new man," declared F. P. Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa., who had just finished the Prunitone treatment. Would you, too, like to quickly put from 10 to 30 lbs. of good solid, "stay-there" flesh, fat and muscular tissue between your skin and bones? Don't say it can't be done. Try Prunitone and prove what it can do for you. Piatt's Pharmacy. Conway, S. C., and Harrelson's Pharmacy; Tabor, N. C., are selling a great deal of Prunitone, and it is giving universal satisfaction. More than half a million thin men and women have gladly made this test and that Prunitone does succeed, does make thin folks fat, even where till else has failed, is best proved by t^Qp' tremendous business we have done. No drastic diet, flesh creams, massage, oils or emulsions, but a simple, harmless remedy that is pleasant to take iand efVective in results. i Take Prunitone with your meals, and watch it work. This test will tell the story.?Adv. today- || sy to get J -/vyr I wcta Refreshing g ' tling Company S ' S ? J/l .j