The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, February 16, 1922, Image 2
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jTHE MUSCLE SHOALS PROJECT
At this writing it is not known
what will be the result of the Muscle
Shoals offer from Henry Ford. In one
respect it may be unfortunate that
the matter was turned over to Congress
for decision. While there are
some uuiv unu paniuuc congressmen
there are others who permit sectional
prejudices to influence all of their actions.
It is realized that the taking
over by Henry Ford of the Muscle
Shoals which will of course result in a
{Treat boom to the South on account
of the development of all that section
of the country adjacent to the
shoals and even hundreds of miles
from it.
But that very fact would cause
some of the enemies of the South to
oppose the Ford proposal.
As the Atlanta Journal suggests,
Mr. Ford has called attention to the
industrial possibilities of the Southeast
to be attained by full utilization
of its enormous wateiopower resources.
On this point alone he has
rendered this section a most valuable
service. Whether the Government
... leases him the project on the basis he
* submits or some other basis, he has
given the Southeast a large amount >.f
very valuable advertising with regard
to its industrial future.
It is stated upon good authority
that Mr. Ford's plans are so stupenduous
that they embrace the
Yrailrling of a town 7.r> miles long from
Muscle Shoals.
In addition to the opening up and
developing of all the Southeast section
the production of cheap feitihzers
by means of nitrogen taken from
the air will be a benefit to all of the
farmers of the South.
Mr. Edison has stated in reference
to the Ford plan that Muscle Shoals
if developed as Mr. Ford proposes to
develop it will produce a v.ast quantity
of nitrogen at a very small cost.
This would mean the substitution of
high grade fertilizers at a low price
for iow grade fcrtiii/.ci at .1 high
L price.
L it is to be hoped that the action of!
P^-Congross in this matter will be in the
interest of the greatest good to the
greatest number.
The wonderful success of Ilenry
Ford as a great manufacturer and organizer
po?r*? t"o h??r> as the proper
man to handle the Muscle Shoals project.
DON'T WANT TO BE WEANED
It is said the property owners of
the District of Columbia have been
favored so long and so often by Congress
that they have conn- to think
that that body of national" lawmakers
should serve them whenever called
upon and do their bidding on all oci
casions.
Senator Crip, of Georgia, once
' made a speech in Congress that showed
up this characterized of the Washington
real estate owners in a startling
manner. lie said at that time"the
books of the Treasurer of the United
jstate will show thai the total amount
that has been donated by the United
States to the city of Washington since
1878 exceeds the enormous sunt of
$ 100,000,000."
He illustrated the attitude of the
Washington real estate owners by
this amusing anecdote that he credited
to Congressman Johnson, of Ken^
tucky:
"I met a hoy on the highway not
long ago. Before I saw him I met a
woman on the road. She came running
down the road in haste. I asked
her no questions, and she 'led along.
. When I turned a curve in the mad I
I met a gre.it big, fat, chubby boy, 1<5
or. 17 years old, with curls hanging
I down his back, the perspiration "HHing
down his face; and up the road
he came running. When I met him, he
|F stopped me and said, 'Mister, <*i,| you
1 meet a woman up the road ahead of
me?' I said, '1 did.' He said, 'Was she
dressed in a black suit of clothe*,, with
a black bonnet and a big plums in her
hat.' I said, 'Yes; that is the woman I ,
met, and she was running.' lie said,
'Well, I want to catch her. Will you I
let me have your horse and buggy
thn<? i may catch her?' 1 said, 'I do <
not know about that. First, tell mc | j
what you v/ant with her.' He then j
said, 'That is my mamma and she is i
trying to weaa mo, and I swear I do i <
not intend to let her do it ' >
MICKIE,THE PRINT I
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BEST WAY TO Fit
WEEVIL TOLD B
By Jame? A. Hollo.non
(Printed by permission Atlanta Con-'
stitution)
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Tallulah, La., Jan.31?The United
States {government maintains at this:
place, in the heart of the delta, an experimenting
and testing station devotee!
exclusively tot he study of the
boll weevil problems. It is in charge
of a staff of competent experts, many
of whom are not only scientists,
whose specialty of entomology has
made them especially valuable in this
work, but are in fact and in truth
"dirt farmers" themselves?men raised
on the farm, and whose better
years of their lives have been given to
the commercial production of cotton.
The station is charge of Dr. B.
R. Coad, assistant United Stutes en
tomoiogist, of the department of agriculture,
and for the past few years
this one man has devoted his entire
time to the study in endeavoring to
find economic, practical methods of
weevil control, both direct and indirect.
He is the man who finally
worked out the powdered calcium arsenate
formula, which is now econont- i
ical and simple to apply, after years 1
of unsuccessful attempts to get at a
successful poisoning method of control
had utterly failed?and after
thousands of farmers had lost in the
aggregate millions of dollars fooling
with such experiments.
Dr. Coad is assisted by Dr. George
Maloney, known by farmers throughout
the Southeastern states, and a
successful "dirt farmer" himself; by
Dr. Hunter of Houston, Texas, and
. thers.
The experiments and demonstra-!
lions made here ate not confined to
tin- laboratory, though this feature is j
important, and this delta station
iias one of the best equipped laboratories
for scientific study in the country:
but it is confined to wotk on
large cotton plats; on big delta plantations,
indeed, so that it's labors
have been just as practical, as we undcrstand
and apply that term, as sci-1
entific.
As I have said before, thousands
of tons of literature have been written
about the boll >wi| and his habits,
and his ravages, and his extermination
an l his control, and so on and
so on.
Many fanners who have earnestly'
tried to follow all of this stuff have :
been run almost crazy on account of
it. One "authority" would contradict
another; and by the time the farmer
followed all of the "rules" that some'
of the theorists required, and all of
the "ilon'ts" that other theorist demanded,
there would be nothing left
but a crazv old man, an invalid wife,'
a house full of half starved children
?and a mortgage.
uru-i i t L i ?
?? u.n. i imvu ueen trying to <ii< 111
these investigations is to trot at the
practical side of the tiling?the side,
that is being practiced by dirt'farmers
with success and with profit. I
have been trying to find what the onehorse
farmer, or the two-horre or
three-horse farmer can do to raise
cotton successfully under boll weevil
conditions, as well as the large, well
organized producing corporation, or
the big planter who runs his hundred
plows, and has the capital to plan
his campaigns for direct weevil control.
Certainly it will not profit a farmer
to spend $f>0 an acre on fertilizers,
labor, calcium arsenate, etc.?and
then. skimp a bare half bale off his
acre of land; and that is pretty good
farming too, all things considered.
That's sending good money after
bad. That's like the cat in the well
crawling up three feet in the day and
falling back four at night. That
means a mortgage foreclosure?-and a
nomciess lamuy. it is enevitable.
How to raise cotton "successfully"
under boil weevil conditions means .
"economically" how to raise cotton j
at a profit in spite of the boil weevil! I
1 have hertoforo outlined in my 1
investigations that? 1
Intense cultivation, following a
proper preparation of the seed bed
and tin early planting of a tested
early fruiting variety; rotation, keep- ,
ing the farm clean and a resort to ]
the pi'oper <lusting if necessary is J
doing th? work in Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas and indeed throughout the
southwestern belt.
Dusting is not so expensive now. It
an he done, say three applications,
nl'.fJJ at around $2 an acre, including
labor, and not more than onehird
of the acreage planted to cotton
hould ever, under any circuinitances,
require dusting if proper and
iK'S DEVIL
;ht boll
y govt. expert
intensive cultural methods are employed.
Hut every effort should be made to
avoid the necessity for dusting at all. I
(nh>nci> At
...? vuivm uvivii rtiu, 11 l 111* IIIIIVS
out of ton?if other wholly non-ox-1
pensive indirect methods of control
are practiced?largely obviate the
necessity for dusting. This is absolutely
true if the summers are dry.
Please bear that in mind.
While every farmer who has cotton
planted on fairly good land, and is
determined to produce a good cotton
crop despite tKe boll weevil, should
be organized to fight the excess infestation
with calcium arsenate, if the
summer is a dry one that additional
expense can absolutely be avoided by
fast cultivating along intelligent lines
?and late in the season light cultivating
until the time to pick the cotton.
Dr. Coad Outlines Indirect Method*
I shall now ask Dr. Coad, with
whom I have spent a day, to tell in
his own words the methods of indirect
control of the boll weevil, as his long
years of experience in field demonstrations
and experience, in Texas
and throughout the delta, have proven.
Read carefully what he says. It
may be a little long, but this is a very
important economic problem and we
must not skim the surface. I quote
him:
"There are numerous practices
which tend to reduce the weevil injury,
some of which are of general
value, while others can be used only
locally. Even when poisoning is practiced
the most thorough attention
should be given to the indirect means
of control since they serve to eliminate
entirely or reduce the amout of
dusting which might be necessary,)
and thereby increase the profit which
may be secured.
"In districts where it is impossible
lo practice tall destruction of the
phiuts, somewhat the same results
can he nc omplished hy grazing the
liehl with catth*, sheep or goats. This
Stories of
Great Scouts fVatsox
r
Western Newspaper Union.
CALIFORNIA JOE S JOKE ON THE
SOLDIER BOYS
California Joe was a man of mystery.
His real name is unknown, some
saying it was Joseph Milnier, and others
asserting It was Hawkins. Whatever
it may have been made little difference
In his fame, for his title of
California Joe was known from Canada
to Mexico, and from the Missouri
river to the Pacific coast. One of the
raits 'if this quultit old scout was his 1
fondness for a practical joke, oud
a :tn> a long day's inareli in the Indian i
<1 mpnigns was made lighter for the
i llieers he served by one of Ids pranks.
One time during the Sioux war of
ISTti. while he was scouting for Col. )
Anson Mills, he discovered an old ,
grave along the trail. Joe stopped,
took o(T his hat and bowed tils bend
reverently. The soldiers immediately
JU1 the same and asked him the reason
for Ids act.
"This here Is the grave of poor
Amos Hillings," said Joe. "He was
with me back In 1830 when we dug ,
gold In the Black Hills. We got so i
much that we had all our pockets
Pull, and even our mules wuz loaded 1
to th' Ins* pound. One ulglit we j
camped right on this spot, and thet
tiiglit poor Amos took the cramps,
[-only ! how he did suffer Is awful for
aie to think on now. We done all we
could but the poor feller died thet
sight.
"We nil had nil th' gold we could
?axry, .so wo Jest burled Billings' dust
.villi hint. Includin' what his mule wuz |
curry In', for we didn't think we had
iny right to take It. I'oor Amos Bllings!
Here's one more tear to moisten
your grave." 1
That night the soldiers took spades
in<I rushed to "poor Amos Hillings'"
tntve. They dug and dug. After gong
down 1<> feet they found some old
mnes hut no gold. "I'oor Amos BilIngs"
never existed except In the hnigiuntiofi
of California .loe, and when
he tired soldiers came straggling Into 1 '
Miup. his only comment was: "What '
feiiuil fools these Tellers he!" (
He next became a trapper and
worked for old .Mm Bridger until
|sr,i. when he went to Oregon on a ,
>1111r111c expedition. At the nuthreak
f the Civil v.ar he Joined the Union j (
iriny its a seoiit and was one of Iter- i ,
lan's sharpshooters In Virginia. Ilo
Irifted West again and heeame (he
favorite scout of (ieneral Custer who
liaile him chief of scouts in the Washla
campaign in 18d7.
After scouting for Crook In -the i
tampaign of IST'i, Joe became a inin r
in I In- Black Hills and was killed
lien- by on unknown assassin (
x?r r?. Is70. 1
Uy Charles Stigl'.roe v
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Btevi <dmoot*MCt J ^
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Is only n local measure, stock in re- v
gions wherQ the bulk of the cotton is c
produce is insufficient for the pur- t
pose. Even where poisoning is prac-Jc
ticed fall grazing i$ still advisable and . v
no danger need be apprehended of i v
poisoning the stock, since there isle
rarely sufficient poison on the plants!
to injure stock even immediately, af-i
ter an application, and, furthermore,!
there is generally a considerable pc-1 *
riod of time elapsing between the last; '
poison and the earliest grazing.
"Considerable local difficulty in the!
control of the boll weevil is experi- v
cnced in southern Texas and occa-1 '
siortally in Louisiana due to the pre -j '
once of stumpage or sprout cotton. '
Sprout plants are sometimes encour-j '
aged on account of the production of| 1
a small, but very early crop. This 1
may have been defensible before the 1
advent of the boll wevil, but at the '
present time the practice is undoubt- 1
edly the worst that could possibly be ;
followed. The weevils seek out these 1
large plants in the early spring and |
thus produce progeny much earlier j
than would otherwise be the case and j
these progeny serve to infest the1 j
planted cotton at an abnormally ear-. '
ly date. The same applies to volun-J !
teer cotton over a considerable pur-: I
tion of the cotton belt. j
"It is often possible for the farmer
to considerably reduce his spring
weevil infestation by proper winter
clean-up measures around his fields. I
"Nearly every farmer who has been
raising cotton for a few years in the
presence of the boll weevil knows that
there are certain fields on his place
where the weevils always appear and
and heaviest. With this information
as a basis it is possible to reduce the
damage by refraining from planting j
cotton in such fields and planting the ^
more distnnct fields. However, this ^
practice is advisable only when no |
attempt is made to confrol the weevil j
by poisoning and quite the reverse is ,
generally to be recommended when '
poisoning is practiced. These fields !
adjoining timber, where the weevil in- I
testation is heaviest,are generally the j
news lands of the place and are thus |
the most fertile and capable of pro- ^
ducing the best cotton crop if the :
weevil injury is eliminated Further- !
more, when such fields are availably j
adjoining hibernation quarters the I
i
I "VAMPS" WHO
| MADE HISTORY |
By JAMES C. YOUNG.
<<?) I'V McCluro Newspaper Syndicate.) '
A NOBLE ENGLISH VAMPIRE.
TllllEIC of Knglnml's dukes are dl
reet descendants of Frances How
nrd. born In 1 "lii.'t, ami one of the few
Knglisb women wlio may be truly
called vampires. Her father was the
earl of Suffolk, and at the age of thir- j
teen lie married her to the earl of
ICssex. a year older. But she did not :
M?.?. ...1.1. 1. ?> !'>' i - *
.... ...in II III lllllll I'll I ( IIIOU^II 111
the tii?:iiit!tiii* sin' had become mis- '
tress in ilif curl ??t" Somerset, favorite
of King .IiiiiI.
Frances dabbled with soothsayers .
and one of lie sc. a Mrs. Turner, got
Into ironhlc. S.c made It known that ;
Frances had considered poisoning her
hushand, whom she hated. The matter
was hushed up and Frances procured
annulment of her wedding ties. Then
she proni|ftly married the earl of Sotn- )
erset. Sir Thomas Overhy, the earl's
friend, earned her undying hatred hy |
opposing the mutch. Frances schemetl
to have him imprisoned in the tower ,
of London. Then she set out to poison !
him. Sir Thomas was aware of the I
plot against his life and took antl- t F
dotes which offset the poisons given 1 "
to him In food. So strong was Ids |
constitution that It seemed he never
would die. Hut finally the end came.
Then new honors were showered upon
Frances and her husband. Despite
this, retribution was near. A newfavorite
arose at court, the ugly '
stories of Overby's end were whispered
everywhere. Weston, The keeper who
had been responsible for the death ol
Overhy, was arrested and confessed
lie was hanged, then Sir Gerva.se Hely
wys, lieutenant of the tower, met the
same fate. Mrs. Turner, who had a
l and in the mat. also went to tho nenf.
fold, along with the apothecary vho
mixed the poisons.
The etirl of Somerset and Frances
tvere tried and condemned. It seemed
that both ivere to pay the heaviest
price which the law could exact, bill
the power of their families ttnnlly won
a pardon for them, and although their
estates were confiscated, each received
a pension and the right to life, when
four of the lesser guilty ones had been
excyuted. They were forbidden to stay
In London nnd made to fix their residence
at a country place. Perhaps this
was the severest penalty that could
have been Inflicted for Frances grew
to hale tin1 man whom she had loved
with such Infatuation, and he saw in
her only the instrument of his disgrace
and the tool of fate which had
led to the murder of his friend. Tielast
year* of Frances were tilled with
Iran* I. and remorse. She died at
thirt>-nioC, leaving an luminous
memory behind bar.
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ShooCD
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weevils' concentrate- on thoni instead
if scattering over larger areas, and
hey serve to a certain extent as trap
rops making it possible to poison the
weevils on these fields and thus present
their spread over the remainder
>f the crop.
Early Crop Most Important Thing
"The producton of cotton in the
iresence of weevils is nothing more
>r less than a race between the seting
of bolls on the plant and the
multiplication of the weevils, and
verything possible should be done to
i d the cotton plants in winning this
ice. The following are some of the
more important steps which may be
aken: Earlv rcmnv?1 ninnt..
preparation of land. The first step'
n procuring an early crop is the early ;
removal of the plants so that the land
nay be plowed during the fall and
.einter and the seed bed thoroughly
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farmer to determine and depends
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conditions, but the importance of a
well prepared seed bed can hardly
bj; overestimated. Furthermore,
the early prparation avoids- the risk
of interference of unfavorable weather
conditions shortly before planting
which often prevent plowing at. that
time.
"One of the most important steps
which has been taken to reduce the
damage has been the development
and introduction of varieties of
cotton which mature their crops earlier
in the season than those varieties
which were planted before the weevil
invasion. The variety to be planted
in order to obtain a profitable crop
under weevil conditions will depend
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True
Detective Stories^
I THE DEVONSHIRE ;
DIAMONDS X
Copyright by Tho Whetlir Syndicate, Inc.
HAD Ludy Alberta Devon not yielded
to temptntlon at the lint mo,
inent and stepped out of her
boudoir to secure her sister's opinion
upon the effect of her Infest Parlslnn
crentlon It Is quite possible that Inspector
John Sweeney of Scotland
Ynrtl would not have had the oppor- >
| tunlty of proving his detective genius
In ti peculiarly striking manner.
Lady Alberta wns absent from her
room for less than ten minutes; but
during tlint time occurred an event
which, for several hours, threatened
to disrupt several of the highest social
circles 'n England.
It was the night of the Devon ball,
held in the big old-fnshloned house In
the center of the Devon estate. As
was only to be expected, the list of
guests read like a section from Horke's
Peerage?a fact which made Inspector ^
Sweeney's work distinctly more dlttleolt
when the loss of the famous necklace
of Devonshire wus reported to
Scotland Yard.
Early In the evening Lady Alberta
had dismissed her maid wltfc the statement
|)iat she.would complete her toilette
herself, but. Just as she was about
to pat on her necklace?an heirloom
which had greatly increased In value
because of Us historic connections?
she thought It would be well to secure
an unbiased opinion as to the effect
1 of her gown, which bad Just arrived
from Paris. When she returned from .?
her sister's room a few minutes later
she reached for the necklace, only to
discover that It had vanished! ?
Positive tlwit sl.e had bad It In her
bands less than ten minutes before, she
searched the room and then summoned
her hudiand. whom she told of thu
in,\ ! rious loss.
"There Is only one thing to do," declared
Ids lordship, after verifying his
wife's statement that the Jewels we?'
mis dug, "and flm^ Is to notify the police.
Inspector Sweeney reached the Dex'on
hoi;, r shortly after midnight, while the
I all was still In progress, and secured
Use nusiger details of the case directly
from her ladyship.
"Did you notice any one In the hull
. as you pussed through on The way to
' your sister's room?" Sweeney asked.
"No one at all."
"1 low long has your niahl been with
you V"
"Loss than two months?but she
mine well recommended."
Finally, la spite of protests, the operative
from Scot land Yard gave or- \
dors tl at no one was to leave the- *
grounds of the Devon estate without
Ids permission, and, as the bull formed
part of a week's festivities, it was possible
to arrange this without mentioning
the reason for the ropiest to the
guests. Armed with i? list of those
present, with their servants, Sweeney
then repaired to Lady Devon's boudoir
to commence active Investigations.
ills knowledge of London society
was suliielent to Inform him that at **
least three of the gnesis, despite their
| titles, might easily have been guilty of
| lifting the necklace if the opporttlliltv
j had presented itself.
"The question Is," mused Sweeney.
"who could have known that Lnd.v
| Devon would have been out of the
; room for Just those few moments? Slut
< wasn't summoned by any message and
I It would therefore appear that some
j one was hiding in the hope that an opportunity
would pre.xeni itself. That
I would seem to eliminate the guests?
but not the servants."
Working along this line, Sweeney
made a careful examination of the
toilet articles on the dressing table
where the diamonds had been placed.
After a thorough scrutiny of the perfume
bottles, pieces of silver and otherarticles
which were highly polished,
the detective made his way downstairs
and sent word to Ludy Devon that hewould
like to speak to her for a mo ment.
"Your ladyship," he snld, "will you
kindly press the tips of your fingers,
lightly on this," and he held out one of
the hand mirrors from the boudoir
"No," he added, "I'm not suspecting
you of making away with your own ^
diamonds?I merely wish to discover
which finger-prints are yours."
"Then, a moment later, "Tluink you.
| I thought as much."
"Now," he continued, "I want you to
| Instruct your butler?whom I underI
stand has been with .vou for a number
of years?to secure the. prints of all
I the servants tinder your roof. Tell him
j t>> make any excuse for It that he
I wants to, but I must secure a coutpl.- e
: collection. IMIKIIV lUIVe tllOIII Sent to
i my room the first tiling in the morning.
[ Meanwhile, don't worry. If my in*
struct ions art' rigidly carried out. your
i necklace should be (Uncovered hefote
I nine o'clock."
I'.at Sweeney Underestimated by
! some two hours. It was eleven o'clock
on tlie following morning before lie rej
reived the complete set of linger*
i prints, and ten minutes later a pair of
> handctilTs was dangling from the wrists
of William Sinclair, valet of one of tho
, titled guests, and, as it afterwards de!
v el oped, a man with a lengthy prison
, record. The necklace wuh discovert d
slowed away la the false bottom of |
Sinclair's trunk.
As Sweeney started back town I ff
Ijondon with Ids prisoner tie caution I ji
til in a ,r more careful in the future p
not to ntlomi t H tlieft unless ht worel
The Fool and HI* Folly.
"They any n fool and IiIm money
a re aoon parted." I
"Ilut they alao say a fi>ol for la<-k.**
An Early Beginning*. ,
Mother?This Is your tinhy brother.
Johnny?I think you hud better
crap him, ma ; he looks like a ftuh:< r.
No Ror.con.
If wives only knew whnl stenographers
think of their huahanda they