The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 10, 1916, Page 7, Image 7
WEEVIL WILL INVADE
' ALL SOUTH CAROLINA
Eipfrta Feel Sure That Whole of
State Will Be Affected, Lower
Part Moat Disastrously.
Case of Louisiana One to
Be Guided By.
(By Joe Sparks)
Ehere are thousands of farmers and
merchants in South Carolina who do
not believe that the Mexican boll
weevil will ever incade this State.
They are hoping against hope that
this State will not be forced to pay
the price that all other States of the
cotton belt have paid.
It is practically certain that the
weevil will cross the Savannah river
"before the end of the present season
and he will most certainly make his
appearance in Beaufort, Jasper,
Hampton, Barnwell and Aiken counties
during 1917. This is the testimony
and the opinion of the experts
who have been studying the progress1
of the pest for nearly a quarter of a
century.
Today there is a great movement
throughout the country in favor of
national nrenareHnpss TVioro aK^ni/i
be a great movement in this State in =
favor of preparedness to meet the disaster
which is certain to follow the ci
arrival of the boll weevil. p
formally South Carolina i reduces c,
about 1,500,000 bales of cotton. The y,
opinion of practically all the experts
is that this production will be cut to
from 600,000 to 700,000 bales during A
the first several years of infest.at'on. ,ai
When it is remembered that South tl
Carolina is annually sending away f(
about ^100,000,000 a year for food di
for man and beast, the result of the w
visit of the weevil will be appalling. f(
The campaign should begin this fall, s
The farmers should begin to cut down tl
on expense and every dollar possible c<
should be saved. ? C1
Doesn't Draw Line There. li
Will the boll weevil invade the 1,
Piedmont section of South Carolina- <]i
There are many farmers and busi- 1<
ness men who scout the idea. There S
are many who do not believe that the T
damage by the weevil will be heavy tl
above the 34th parallel. fj
It is a great mistake to assume that ri
weevil damage depends on latitude. S(
Latitude means nothing but the distance
from the equator and bodies of tc
water, mountains and other factors al
may and do cause regions on the same m
parallel to show radically different e<
climatic conditions. It is the climatic h.
conditions and not the latitude which di
affects the boll weevil. The most im- w
portant climatic conditions which op- fi
erate against the weevil are winter ol
temperatures and summer rainfall. S
Anyone who cares to look into the o\
^ matter can obtain charts from the T
weather bureau which show lines giv- o<
ing these factors crossing parallels of fr
latitude, sometimes almost at right w
angles. For instance, a line drawn ai
through northern Louisiana, indicat- tl
ing an absolute minimum tempera- rt
ture, extends more or less along the S<
parallel of latitude across the State ol
of Mississippi and Alabama. In Geor- n<
gia, however, the line turns sharnlv m
to the north and extends in a north- lo
easterly direction entirely across the b<
State of South Carolina. This means ui
that the winter in Columbia, approx- ol
imately on the 34th parallel, is for all m
oractical purposes the same as that is
in northern Louisiana at a latitude of ni
about 32 degrees. In other words,
nnv region in South Carolina must tc
not be compared with a region of the w
,jme latitude in Arkansas, but with qi
the region about two degrees to the ei
south in Louisiana. The facts con- rn
cerning Louisiana and boll weevil de- vi
struction have already been presented, ei
There is no reason to believe that con- w
ditions will be different in South Car- w
olina. The same is true of lines show- it
ing summer rainfall. These and other it
important iactors bearing on the boll a!
weevil (five a clear forecast of what
aspects the problem will assume in
South Carolina. As a matter of fact fi
the only region on the Atlantic coast ir
which could be compared with the ti
latitude of Dittle Rock, Ark., is the a:
extreme northern North Carolina and ti
southern Virginia.
In the Three Zones. tc
To repeat, careful studies of the m
boll weevil which have been conduct- ct
ed for many years leave no doubt si
whatever that it will finally reach all li
parts of South Carolina. Neverthe- b<
less the problem will vary in different st
sections of the State. In a rough war b<
South Carolina might be divided into a;
three zones, one including the lower Ji
third of the State or the coast coun- w
ties; another the central third and ti
the remainder the Piedmont section, of
In the lower zone, under normal boll
weevil conditions a loss of about To H
per cent of the cotton crop may be
expected. The loss in the central zone, tc
under the same conditions would he cc
about 50 per cent and in the Piedmont
section at least 25 per cent. In ju
unfavorable seasons such as those of pi
high precipitation following mildltv
winters the damage would be greater. d(
Under such conditions even the Pied- m
niont section might show a loss of 75 as
per cent of the cotton crop. w
These conditions are based on lo
wide observations and on the opinion ui
of men who have given their entire fc
time to the study of the pest. An- in
other thing, too, the loss will depend at
largely on the effect %f the individual if
farmer. Cotton can be grown under y<
boll weevil conditions with fairly good
seasons. However, the farmers must ei
get ready to tide over the lean years rc
that are certain to follow the infesta- tVi
tion in South Carolina.
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J. P. Wade, commissioner of agriiilture
of the State of Alabama, has
repared the following statement conjrning
the situation in that State this
ear:
Invasion of Alabama.
"The cotton boll weevil entered
labama on the southwest corner
bout five years ago. About half of
le area of the State had become in;sted
by the end of the year 1914
uring which 1,600,000 bales of cotton
ere produced. In 1913 a campaign
>r diversified farming was carried on
tatewide. This naturally resulted in
le reduction of acreage planted to
)tton 15 to 20 per cent, and a de-ease
in the use of commercial fertizer
of 50 per cent., notwithstanding
040,000 bales of cotton were proneed
in the State. On August 15,
)15, a severe gale played over the
tate, blowing from the southwest,
his being the migrating period for
le weevil and the wind being in the
ivorable direction, weevils were cared
to all parts of the State and to
iveral counties in Georgia.
"In 1916 the acreage planted to cottn
was increased over that of 1915
lout 10 per cent. The use of comlercial
fertilizer was further decreas1
15 per cent. A yield of 1,200,000
lies was expected under normal conitions.
On July 5 a severe storm of
ind and rain traversed the State
om one end to the other, the trough
which was about the centre of the
tate.>. This was followed by continuis
heavy rains for about three weeks,
his extremely unfavorable weather
:curred just at the vital time of
uiting and at the time when wet
eather would aid boll weevils most
id render farmers most helpless in
leir fight against the weevil. As a
>sult nf thp ("nmKino.1
? ...w vvmiwiuvu uioaatci, Hie
tate will make about 500,000 bales
I cotton or about 41 per cent of a
jrmal crop. The 59 per cent loss
lay be conservatively divided as foliws:
Twenty-five per cent due to
all weevil and 34 per cent due to
nfavorable weevil during the crisis
f production. The boll weevil did
luch more than normal damage, as
always the case during wet sumlers.
"The boll weevil will surely come
> South Carolina or any other place
here cotton grows. It is only a
uestion of a few years. Your farmr
may be like all others and find
lany arguments as to why the weeds
will not come. The Alabama farmrs
put up all these arguments. They
ould not take th efacts from those
ho knew, but they have at last taken
from Mr. Boll Weevil himself and
is found that he devours all excuses
s well as cotton.
Can Grow Some Cotton.
"We are still optimistic and believe
om experience that by pood farmip
on seasonable years we can connue
to prow cotton profitably and
re offerinp the followinp instrucons:
"It will take a million bales of cot>n
per year to keep Alabama in norial
financial condition. This amount
in be prown in excess of the diverfied
crops sufficient to produce a
vinp at home, and in spite of the
>11 weevil. Alabama farmers have
sen the worst of it this year. With
>11 weevils all over the State as had
i they will ever he and the worst
jly weather ever known, conditions
ill improve as favorable seasons reirn.
Help us to make a million bales
' cotton next year and help your>lves
to enjoy prosperity once more,
ow?
"1. Bepin at once to destroy the cot>n
stalks by plowinp them under
mpletely, cuttinp and burninp them
prazinp them closely with cattle
ist as soon as you can pet the cotton
cped. Plowinp them under with a
vo horse plow is the best, because it
istroys weevils, prevents them from
ultiplyinp until frost, adds the stalks
! a fertHi7oi- '1 ' Al?
. ? vu uic nun, lurcus int'
eevil to migrate or to survive a
nger period of starvation. Plowing
ider destroys grass and weeds be?re
the seed ripens, prepares the soil
the fall, makes it produce better
id easier to cultivate. It's all gain,
you do it promptly and well. Will
>u do it?
"2. Reduce your crop to six or
ght acres to the plow and make the
rws one foot wider thp.n you expect
le cottob to grow in height.
"8. Prepare a good well pulverized
leal Difference
, derived from grapes,
iaking Powder because
lost healthful ingredient
>ose.
alum, which are desources,
are used in
?rs, instead of cream of
/ are cheaper.
1 induced to use baking
n alum or phosphate,
Powder instead. You
h the results and the
lity of the food.
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.seed bed and plant as early as season
will permit.
"4. Plant pure seed of early varieties
like Triumph, Cleveland, Toole,
King and Simpkin.
"5. Fertilize a little heavier and
put part of the fertilizer in with the
seed to start the crop quickly. If only
200 pounds of fertilizer is used per
acre, apply all with the seed.
"(5. Keep cotton off damp rich landll
that makes too much weed, as moisture,
shade and tender growth is the
weevil's ideal place.
"7. Pick the weevils out of the buds
of the plants a week before squares
begin to form. I
"8. Pick up and burn the infested |!
squares the same week that the first!
blooms occur. ||
"0. Cultivate shallow and once a
week until Aupust or later.
"10. Successful cotton culture is i
now a matter of the man, his intelli-!'
pence, determination and ability toll
apply his efforts at the time which will I
accomplish the preatest results."
KELTON I
Kelton, Nov. 6.?The weather con-11
tinues fine and I do hope the weather I
man will not send us any rain this I >
week as our Union county past fairs ll
have been rainy. I hope the people ;
of the county will turn out in full I
force and have exhibits and make ourli
fair what it oupht to be. I haven't
anythinp to carry, my whole crop
is potatoes and I have only madei"
about one-third of a crop while all oth-11
er .crops are brinpinp fancy prices,
potatoes are no higher, so you see
where I stand. I am not blaming
anyone for my condition, only myself.
I ought to have diversified. You bet
I will plant something besides potatoes
next year.
I hear some talk, especially through
the papers, of a bolt in the Democratic
party. I don't think there will be
much of a bolt. Those newspaper
men who are making such a do con-1
sider it an awful sin for the Reformers 1
or Tillmanites or Bleaseites to bolt,
but when Haskell and his crowd bolted
the Tillman faction it was a great
patriotic move, so you can see it depends
on whose ox is being gored. I
wish every one in South Carolina
could have heard what I heard a man
-nv while I was in Columbia last
week. He said he was a manager.
You certainly would have said there
was fraud in the last primary election.
Too bad to think of Democrats using
such methods against their fellow
Democrats. Friends, I am going to
prophesy and it is this?if the Democrats
don't stop such methods as have
been practiced since B. R. Tillman
started the reform movement there
surely will be a split in the Democratic
party in South Carolina and
while the two parties or factions are
fighting over the bone (the office) the
Republicans will slip in and get the
bone. Young men. remember what I
say I am getting old and may not live
to see it but it will come. You can
lead men but they are hard to drive
just look back to 1890, was there ever
a man in South Carolina ridiculed and
abused more than Ben Tillman. Nothing
that could be said of him was too
bad. What do they think of him
now? Not all of them have taken him
to be such a good fellow and those
who never have voted for him who
hate him worse than they do the
devil. I had rather trust them than
those who flew to him so quick. I
have voted for Ben every time he
ran for office and I thought if there
was a man in South Carolina as true
fo the doctrine he preached he was
the man, but my faith has been shaken
in him. And again, look at Sam
J. Nicholls, the dictagraph man. last
year he was a very bad man. Where
does he stand this year with the same
men ? If they were such bad men
then they are still now or at least I
never have heard of their conversion.
You may take history of men, both
sacred and profane, and it is repeating
itself. Trust is mighty and once i
crushed to the earth will rise again. I
Wa ?1 * * *
k?ku parties in every
State and nation or two factions in
J the party if we only have one, so
they can watch each other. Look at
the Republican party, it was in power
so long they prot corrupt and divided
and the result was the Democrats I
slipped in. Yes, we must have two I
FINDS SUBSTITUTF FOR
"FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH"
Mrs. Lee, Though Much
Older, Says She Now Feels
Like "Sweet Sixteen."
ONCE SUFFERED MUCH
Gains Thirty-Five Pounds?Took
Tanlac and Says It Broke I'p
Her Ills.
"I weighed ninety pounds when I
began taking Tanlac, and I now
weigh 125 pounds," declared Mrs.
Annie Lee, of 415 Pall Mall St, Columbia,
in a statement she recently
gave in endorsement of Tanlac. "The
National Tonic," which she said she
took a year ago and which restored
her health.
One year after she took Tanlac Mrs.
iJee gave the following endorsement
of the remedy which gave her such
remarkable results. Her statement
follows:
"Before I took Tanlac I suffered
from nervousness, and this t rmihlo 1
was very bad. Also, my system in
general was run down and weakened.
I was so nervous that I would jump
if any one spoke when I was not expecting
it or if anyone knocked on the
door. I had no appetite at all, and
really I did not eat as much as a cat.
"My strength had almost left me
and I could hardly walk across the
floor, I was so weak and nervous. I
suffered awfully with hearaches and
it seemed that there was nothing that
would stop them. I eou4d not sleep
at all hardly and a few minutes after I
would get to sleep I would jump and
be wide awake. There was very little
rest for me at night. In general, I
felt fcadly all the time.
"I bought Tanlac because I had
read so much about it, and I took four
bottles. That was a year ago, and I
feel as well now as when I quit taking
Tanlac. I was a well woman
when the fourth bottle was gone, so
great was the results Tanlac gave me.
"The Tanlac helped me so much that
I feel like I was sixteen years of
age now, though I am much older than
that. I weighed ninety pounds when I
began taking Tanlac, but I now weigh
125 pounds (a gain of 35 pounds) or
more. The Tanlac quieted my nerves
?nd strengthened them and built up
my system. My nerves are fine now
and I feel well.
"I am always glad to recommend
Tanlac, and I do so because it is a
remarkable medicine, and it did all I
could want it to do for me. It just
broke up my troubles. It has been a
year since I took Tanlac and I feel as
fine now as I did when I quit taking
it."
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GOVERNORS' ELECTION.
Arizona?George W. P. Hunt, Dem- .
ocrat.
Arkansas?Dr. Charles Hilman
Brough, Democrat.
Colorado?George A. Carlson, Republican.
Connecticut?Marcus H. Holcomb,
Republican.
Delaware?John G. Townsend, Republican.
Florida?M. V. Knott, Democrat.
Georgia?Hugh M. Dorsey, Democrat.
Idaho?W. D. Davis .Republican.
Illinois?Frank O. Lowden, Republican.
Indiana?James P. Goodrich, Republican.
Iowa?W. P. Harding, Republican.
Kansas?Arthur M. Capper, Republican.
Massachusetts?Samuel W. McCall,
Republican.
Michigan?Albert E. Sleeper, Republican.
Minnpcnfo-?T A A T?
?... n. n. nurnquist, Kepublican.
Missouri?-Frederick G. Gardner,
Democrat.
Montana?Frank .T. Edwards, Republican.
Nebraska?Keith Neville, Democrat.
New Hampshire?Henry W. Keyes,
Republican.
New Mexico?E. C. Debaca, Democrat.
New York?Charles S. Whitman,
Republican.
North Carolina?Thomas W. Rickett,
Democrat.
North Dakota?Linn J. Frazier, Republican.
Ohio?Frank B. Willis, Republican.
Rhode Island?R. L. Beeckman, Republican.
South Carolina?Richard I. Manning,
Democrat.
South Dakota Peter Norbeek, Re- I
publican. I
Tennessee?Tom C. Rye, Democrat.
Texas?James E. Ferguson, Democrat.
Utah?Simon Bamberber, Democrat.
Vermont?Horace F. Graham, RenuKl
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Washington?Henry McBruce, Republican.
West Virginia?Ira B. Robinson,
Republican.
Wisconsin?Emanuel Ijl Philipp,
Republican.
parties or two factions in the ruling
one. Tomorrow will decide whether
Woodrow Wilson or Hughes will be
our next president. All for Woodrow
Wilson! G. T. G. .
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