The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 09, 1922, Image 3
' 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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CHURCH SERVICES
Kingstree, S. C.
Baptist Church:?Frank C. Hawkins,
Pastor.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
E-reaching?11:00 a. m.
Billy Sunday Club?3:30 p. m.
B. Y. P. U.?6:30 p. m.
Evening service?7:30
Weekly Prayer service?Friday 7:30
p. m.
Piesbyterian Church, J. W. Davis,
Pastor.
Sunday School?10:06 a. m.
Preaching?11:15 a. m.
Christian Endeavor?6:30 p. m.
Evening service?7:30.
Weekly Prayer service?Wednesday
7:30 p. m.
Methodist Church, J. P. Inabinet, Pastor.
Rev. C. C. Derrick, Presiding
Elder, Kingstree District.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
Preaching?11:15 a. m.
Prayer Meeting?Wednesday 8:00 p.
m.
Epworth League meets?6:30 p. m.
Evening service?7:30.
Episcopal Church, Walter Mitchell,
D. D. in Charge.
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