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' BOLL WEEVIL THREAT IN 1922.' Expert in Charge of the Delta Laboratory at Tallulah. La. (By B. R. Coad) Cotton farmers are now busy arguing pro and con the advisability of reducing or increasing the cotton acreage for 1922, but in the numerous arguments quoted we seldom see any mention made of one of the most important factors which should have I a very positive influence on the cotton ' program for the coming season. This is the prospect of bool weevil abundance. For quite a number of years the Delta Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, has been making a series of studies each season to prove as a basis for predictions regarding the severity of spring infestation of bool weevils. The records for 1922 liave just been completed and for comparison with these we have similar records for the past eight years. The number of boll weevils emerging from hibernation each spring deI pends on tvo things, the number enf tering hibernation in the fall and the percentage of those surviving. Last ^-ffall the majority of the cotton belt saw conditions which permitted an ?? 1 . nf WPPvilS unusually migc aiunvu ^ ? to enter hibernation. The winter weather has generally been abnormally mild to late and the usual period of severe weather has passed although thete is of course still a bare chance of temperature low enough to ? influence weevil survival. Because of this mild rvather a high rate of weevil survival was to be expected. Our recent records have more than verified this expectation. These records are made .n a number of different ways but tine most comparable criterion is the figure based on the number of live weevils found hibernating in Spanish moss in certain selected localities in Louisiana each year. During the past few days we have examined ovfr 3,000 pounds of Spanish moss from 15 different selected points representing the different types of jf'-V hibernating conditions found in that district. This moss is carefully ex? amined and the number of weevils both dead and live noted. From this we compute the ratio of both live and dead weevils per ton of moss, and past experience has shown that fthie affords a very fair index to the emergence which may be expected. The table below shows the figures for the ]:?st eight years. Live weevils Dead weevils Year per icon of moss per ton of moss 1915 10.0 414.0 1916 24.0 136.0 1917 8.0 144.0 1918 1.7 48.9 1919 4.0 58.0 1920 9.5 15.8 1921 22.0 26.0 1922 127.0 2.2 Survival in Hibernation Highest in Years. From these figures it is seen that "We have far more live weevils per ton of moss in sight now than at any time since these records were started and only a very few dead weevils. Of course the records on the presence at dead weevils can not be accepted as too accurate because it has been found that many dead weevils fall out of the moss during the winter and are thus lost The most striking feature, however, is the fact that the records for this year show more """ '* ttrAnxrilc than fivt times as many u?c in hibernation as in the highest preceding years since 1915. These records are checked in other ways, among the different methods being a series of cages located near Tallulah, Louisiana, which are installed with a known number of live weevils each fall, different types of shelter provided and the survival of weevils in ' ^these cages determined in the spring. ^ -5^lP"Wc have just completed an examination of this series of cages and find that these figures'verify those quoted in the moss examinations, and show the percentage of survival to date to be much higher than in past years. Small Acreage Suggested. In considering the significance of . these minings, it suvum uc ed that while they mean a very abnormally heavy emergence of overwintered weevils in the coming spring, they do not necessarily mean that summer weather conditions may be sufficiently unfavorable to offset this heavy early infestation, but the fact remains that the farmers will start handicapped and it is going to require abnormal weather to produce a normal cotton crop under a tremendous weevil damage. The sane source to pursue is to anticipate a year of great abundance of boll weevils and make all plans accordingly. Everyone who has raised a few cotton crops ' with th e weevil realizes how the weevil cuts down the acreage he can handle per plow and still make a drop. Furthermore, the more abundant the weevils are, the less acreage he can I handle successfully, and certainly the .Jy present prospects per plow for 1922 ^ should be reduced to an absolute minimum if the farmer is to experience any safety whatever. & WASHINGTON COMMENT. Babe (George Herman) Ruth has become the highest paid athlete in the world. He has just signed a five-year contract with the New York Yankees calling for a salary of between $75,000 and $100,000 a year with a bonus of $500 for each home run hit during the regular season. Rev. S. B. Harper, presiding elder of the Charleston district since the 1920 conference, died in Charleston last Saturday. Funeral sen-ices were held in Charleston Sunday afternoon in Bethel church, conducted by the Rev. F. H. Shu'er. Mr. Harper was in his 47th year and is sun-ived by n widow, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Harper was stricken with paralysis last fall. Dentists, even new not particu * " l Urn JA<4?Atr. lariy wen iixea, nave snn^i.v ukhvjed their last bit of popularity among children by declaring that candy is harmful to children's teeth. Of twenty prominent dentists questioned by Dr. Henry G. Harvitt, a New York dentist, who writes in the Medical Review of Reviews, thirteen line up solidly against sweets. Four are neutral and three brave and kindly scientists defend it. Some of the dentists who appear in the symposium meanly suggest a widespread publicity campaign to fight excessive candy eating. Helium costs more than hydrogen. Dead men are no use to the country. It would seem, to the man who reads as he runs, that those in authority might have put these two facts together prior, not subsequent, to the horrible disaster to the Roma. With the terrible example of CR-2 fresh in our minds, couldn't we huve spent the money necessary to fill the Roma's big bag with noninnammaoie ncnum, especially since we have seen seven millions invested in two plants to recover this gas from natural gas? There will be "investigations,'' of course?already Congress is talking of whether or not it should sanction other dirigibles. But will Congress have* the courage to place the blame for the'Roma disaster where it belongs?either on a. penurious policy or a mistaken idea of economy ? Will our legislators have the nerve to face their constituents if they do not? No one knows?a Congressman's constituents are to him a hydra-headed monster, and he is all too prone to forget that they are just plain folk, regular fellows who would rather spend public money for expensive helium than save it, via hydrogen, and kill a few dozen fellow citizens to mark their "economy." Patriotism, a word too often cheapened by improper use, was given a new meaning recently when the Scottish Rite Masons of Charleston, S. C., went on record as opposed to exemption of fraternal orders from taxation. It is very infrequent that the Masonic order takes any action which could possibly be considered as interfering with political movements. In this case, as has been pointed out with much pride not only by South Carolina Masons who are members of the national legislature but by many senators and congressmen from other states who are Masonc, the South Carolina organization is standing for a principle which, put into practice, will be injurious to them financially. The text of their resolution, to be presented to the legislature of South Carolina, is ae follows: "Whereas a measure now pending before the general assembly of South Carolina proposes to exempt Masonic and other fraternal buildings from taxation, and "Whereas equalization of taxation is a fundamental principle of our government; be it therefore "Resolved, That the Cathedral Association of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry of Charleston, S. C., hereby places itself on record as opposed to any tax exemptions extended to Masonic and other fraternal buildings, believ ing that each organization and institution should bear its full proportion of taxation, the only exceptions being such organizations and institutions as are operated wholly by the state, county or city governments for the use and benefit of all the people." Much discussion at the capitol centers around the Towner-Sterling Bill to create a Department of Education, in place of the present small Bureau iof Education. Arguments pro and con from many angles are heard on every side, but even thoughtful legislators who are opposed to the bill on the ground that we now have enough departments and enough members of the cabinet, are finding food for thought in favor of the bill when they consider its Americanization possibilities. The United States for many years had no immigration policy, beyond throwing wide open the gates and as . similating as many immigrants as cared to come. Later we became a j little more particular, and now we j ' have a percentage law which limits ; our incomers to a reasonable propor1 tion of men and women of the immigrant's nationality already here. But we have not revised our citizenship acquisition laws for many I years; we have rested satisfied with the procedure which did well enough when applicants were few. We did, indeed, amend the law to make it "impossible" to swear men in Si citizens in "blocks," but that law is more honored in the breach than in the observance. The net result is that we make more ! than three hundred thousand new J citizens a year, not to mention their wives and children. 1 What sort of citizens are they? Just as good, and not one bit better, than wc give them the opportunity of being. And "opportunity" here means Americanization schools, Americanization propaganda, Americanization methods, directed particularly to ' those who need them. History proves that the average immigrant wants to learn, that he usually makes a i good citiz^p when he has had the I chance to be or.o, but that he can't learn if he doesn't speak English, , and unless he does learn American ways and American ideals, he becomes a very undesirable citizen indeed. It is the Americanization features of the Towner-Sterling Bill that com- 4 mend it to many of its pronounced opponents. These features, and its , AVIAAIItyimnflP piUVIOIWa XV1 CUVVUi w*v tion of all, in America ideals and American democracy are but some of manyplans included in this absolutely essential measure, which make its passage so heartily and uniformly demanded by chambers of commerce, boards of trade, fraternal, religious and civic bodies the country over. o Send the Cash. When sending in for publication in ' The County Record notices of hot suppers, box parties or other entertainments given for the purpose of raising money, also obituaries and cards of thanks don't fail to let the cash accompany same. We positively will not "charge" such not1 ices. The price is 10 cents the line. 1 You count six words to the printed line and enclose money or stamps with notice. If such notice is not accompanied by the money it will go direct to the waste basket, and we have an extra large one for the purpose. 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