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r - , - . micrrcdBoll Weevil Killers Kaay Impracticable Methods Have Been Suggested in South-West Ex terminating the Boll Weevil, But - K of Them la Worth Shucks, Says Hollomon. - James A. Hollomari, who was sent to the Southwestern part of the coun try by the Atlanta Constitution to ' find out how the cotton farmers there conquered the boll weevil, , wrote - anions many other articles one on the numerous utterly impracticable " schemes which were advanced in con nection with? the job of killing or . driving out the cotton pest. Describ ing th various remedies and devices, .- he wrote ' " There was njinufactured and sold In the "southwest a nwhanical "agi-tatoi- revolving contraption that (jna supposed "to shake all of &e weevils from J-ne cowun i"iS h im pose ft did! As soon as Ihe "agita , tor stopped agitating they flew back - upon the plants. The habit of the weevil is to pin his wings to his side, fenl jn its feet reFao x'ns ground VsuiFwaJ h the slightest Maise om . BpMi in his vicinity. But that ; is the iinninghess of the deviil He go? hack when the noise U over. Anyway the "agitators" were soon "found to "agitate" the cotton plant . to such an extent that squares, bolls, blooms and pretty nearly everything else except the stalk were agitated - upon the ground. Poor, misguided fools who fell for it! .The next man wrote about like this: "Why does the United States department of agriculture waste ' thousands ; of dollars a year trying to find ways of poisoning the boll weevil when nature has provided an enemy, the water newt, that will lear the fields of the pest in short order? The newt is known to be a -destroyer of aquatic insects. It would be equally effective against other V forms of insects, and it would not be difficult to . develop the water newt into, a land animal, as it already has a pair of partially developed legs. AH that remains to be done is to accelerate" the "development of enough legs' that the newt can run about the cotton fields, climb the stalks and pull down the destructive weevil." It might be possible to develop the newt's legs to such an extent that he could walk on them at the end of about ten million years. But they say that the great discoverer has everlooked the fact that the average southern farmer, already a little im patient about the boll weevil, would hardly be willing to wait that long for a remedy, even if it were certain that the newt would catch boll wee vils at the end of ten million yearo of training. More bunk! Of course. Powdered Gasoline. : Some of the remedies proposed do not involve such stupendous biolo gical problems, but many of them run foul of other branches of science. A man wrote Dr. Coad, of Tallulah, la., that tinkering with calcium ar- - senate is foolishness "do it with gasoline," he said. "I know you can't apply gasoline in the liquid form," he wrote, "but you could boil the liquid out of it and apply it as a dust, the same way that you do the calcium arsenate." . "I'll try that," said the chemist of the staff, "the very day that I get read yto evaporate the whole blamed outfit into ghosts." . Of course he will not try that one, but the laboratory, I am informed, has tested out any number of pro posals that were equally grotesque. When anybody says that he has dis covered something that will control the boll weevil, his plan gets a thor ough, scientifically conducted test by the government unless, of course, it is either dangerous or plainly silly. The laboratory staff is interested in boll weevil .-control and has work ed out an effective control agent in powdered calcium arsenate. Some really "beautiful" schemes simply cannot be tried. For instance, there is one that bobs up every once in a while from some new place and it never has been tried yet. It is that soapsuds be smeared so slippery that ... the weevils cannot climb them. Every cotton planter would be delighted to see Mr. .Weevil letting his foot slip in soapsuds and breaking his neck but it is a practical impossibility to lake a bucket of soapsuds and a paint -brush and fix up a cotton field with it Idiotic! Another and somewhat similar scheme that is proposed just about - as often as the soapsuds is that some sticky, substance, like "tangle ,foot" be painted on the plants. Still another of the same kind is that .borax or something of that kind be -sprinkled on the plants, the idea be , ing that it will "ball up" the weevil's tfeet till they cannot walk. , All of these belong to a class of -"remedies" whose proponents blandly ignore the effect of the stuff onvthe plants, the practicability of getting ,it on the plant at all and the possi- - Ability of getting it in contact with the . -weeviL ' ' - Perhaps the most persistent of .them all is the oil "remedy" in one .-form or another. It may be kerosene, -gasoline, -cresote, turpentine! What- - -fW it happens to be, it is to be mop ped on. i , .. f JThi usual suggestion is to tie a -sack to the singletree, saturate it "with the oil and drag it over the cot rton plants while plowing is in pro 1 rirres: The only; real difficulty about th oil treatment is that it kills plant tissue wherever it touches it And , it does not repel the weevils. . All it does to them is to Jet them -"tarve to death if the cotton plants re' killed. But what availeth that'. " -Indeed -nothing repels the boll fweviL Almost every conceivable chemical has been tested as repl iant and not one of them has ever had any effect on the weeviL On a v. V.: MAmnsnifli. ft Am A time . A.m.t to Louisiana to work on repellents. He suyeo round and finally left in disgust with the statment that he had evolv ed a smell that would kill a man in stantly a half a mile and the -boll weevils flocked to it like bees to honey, ''- 'u ..'". A " r .: Still announcement , of repellant "remedies" are coming in all the time and they come from all sorts of sources. Some of them come from men who have a smattering of scien tific knowledge. Some come from crooks who know that there is noth ing in them. Some come from honest, hard-working negroes revealed to them, they say, by mysterious voices or in answer to prayer. Recently a man apparently the founder of a new school of philoso phy, claimed that he could ' speak to the "iotas"' ef the boll Weevil rand tei jts activity M:tafetfi 3. l-n TV- ka UwL i tory staff who talked to him did not r .... ...... . feel equal to the tasic ox testing any- "7 -r " thing so deep and the philosopher Js m7 J toin . , w; rir.i.s'ss Ji yf r.'e institute and all it branches in taking the mater tip with the aecre-. . . . M . r , tary of agriculture. 1 "., ' :, Kiljio' by 'Explosion' .' Now and then a "remedy" comes by way of the United States patent office. One that was recently tested out, that of killing . the weevils by detonating high explosives in the cot ton fields, came by the last named route. The patentee claimed to be able to kill all the weevils without injur ing the cotton. In fact, he , claimed that the detonations were actually beneficial to the cotton. One of the most efficient men at the Delta laboratory was assigned to make a series of tests. The leaves were blown off a good many plants, but the weevils were not injured. The quantity of explosives was gradually increased to the point where most of the cotton was bare of leaves, but the weevils were still alive. One of the most, interesting of all the "remedies" thus far proposed is this N The cotton farmer is to take a hypodermic syringe and inject a cer tain chemical into every cotton plant i in his field. The idea is that - the chemical will get into the plant's circulatory system and poison any weevil that feeds on it. The propo nents of the scheme overlook the fact that such a process is absolutely con trary to the laws of plant physiology. In the same class as the hypodermic "remedy" is the often repeated pro posal that the cotton seeds be soaked in certain chemicals with the idea that the plants will be made immune to weevil attack, and also the putting of chemicals around the base of the plants with the idea that they will be. taken up by the ' plants and either repel the weevil by making the sap distasteful or poison the weevils. All nonsense. One of the newest things in this line is described as "a dark colored sand, a natural mineral product." The discoverer says that in his own experience, this sand destroys snails, potato bugs and various other in sects. He believes it is the thing to kill the boll weevil. The director of the Delta laboratory wrote him that he would be glad to make , tests with the sand, but . that it would not be possible until next June when the weevils emerge. The gentleman wrote back, "Let me draw your attention to the fact that this sand is not in tended as a killer after the weevil be comes active, but to be preventative of the formation of , the boll weeviL" The sand is just to be sprinkled on the ground, it 'appears, and no wee vils will come. Bosh! . A man in Mississippi "discovered" or said he did, that boll weevils, mi grate only at night and in a north- easiemiy aireciion. ne evolved a "fumigant," made of pine splinters and tar. Ail that was necessary was; to burn this at the northeast corner of the field. It would kill all the weevils. The people at the laboratory made the test and wrote him that, while it did not kill any weevils, it did kill the cotton plants. He replied that it was not a fair test. They had his fumes confined in a small space, he said, and to be effective they had to have all outdoors to operate in. There are about as many mechani cal weevil catchers as there are chemical nostrums. The difference is that the mechanical catcher do not offer as many surprises. Thev are all just about the same. They got in the ame away back at the be ginning and, though no one of them ever did collect enough weevils to effect any measure of control unless it injured the cotton so severely to reduce the yield, ' men all over, the cotton belt are still discovering them anew and urging their use with the zeal of missionaries. There was some let-up along this line for a while. The inventive genius of the country had its mind centered on win ning the war. Now that the war has been over long enough for the inven tors to return to normalcv thev are devoting attention to smaller things, nu mere is a regular iiooa or me chanical weevil catchers. Every . one of them gets its day in " court its field-test for efficiency. Alt. are worthless. . - - The Gorgas Memorial To the Editor of The; Robeionian: The following physicians of the county have been appointed by the Robeson County Medical society as a committee to represent the medical profession in various sections of the county in the Gorgas memorial drive: DS. Currie, Parkton; J. F. Nash, St Pauls; G. W. West, Fehmont; W. E. . Evans, Rowland; J. A. Martin and E. R. Hardin, i lumber ton; B. Frank MaMillan, Red Springs; E. G. McMillan, Maxton ; T, M. Watson, Maxton; J. S. Norman, I Boardmvn; E. I Bowman, McDonald.' The physicians are asked to name tentative committee of ministers, business and professional men and women to act with them, as a county executive committee'. 1 - ' i v. This is the first great movement to honor a famous Southern physi cian nd sanitarian, and, it deserves the hearty and sympathetic coopera tion of all our people. The monument is not merely to build a memorial to Gen. Gorgas but to maintain tific institute for research and tropi cal preventive medicine in Panama and to establish a school ' to train doctors, nurses and engineers for puDiw Health work hi "the South, at Tuscaloosa, Ala. , w v The Government of Panama ban appropriated one half million dollars to build the institute for tropical and preventive medicine in Panama and min d1,a to puild a hospi- it--wst the Gorgai memorial institute . in v this c?untry,9 toJis0 "fnient of I Bi-r . millirtn HnIIva Tha InfAHil m allotment : toward this endowment is 100,000 and this should make Robe- son county's part around 91000. ; Of course I realize 'that times are hard and our people are tired of drives, having so many calls from? Europe for help during the : last twelve months. However,': this is the first great movement to honor, a 'famous physician of the South, and the South has been "asked to do its part first The drive to raise North Carolina's, South Carolina's and Virginia's part of the endowment will begin ; March 15th and last one week; " then the other Southern States will be worked in groupes of like manner. After this, all the Middle West, West, and North will be ; covered. Organisations all over the world will contribute toward this endowment to honor Gen. Gorgas and perpetuate his great work for humanity. E. L. BOWMAN, President Robeson Co. Med. So. About Eczema and Eruptions! -yCi':j Here's Something About S. S.S. That You'll Be Glad to Hear. Tou might Just as well know It right . now, the cause of skin eruptions, pimples, blackheads, boils and so on, is right in the blood. There is no get ting away from it. Science has proved it. We prove it. You can prove it 1 When the cause of skin troubles and eruptions is in the blood, it isn't com- J lt fil, 8, 8, Clve Tt An AmeUe 8Wa! mon sense to simply treat the skin. a Doiue or h. . 0. win prove to you what is happening in your blood, as. 3. Is a scientific blood cleanser. It drives out the impurities which cause eczema, tetter, rash, pimples, boils, blackheads; blotches and other skin eruptions. When these impurities are driven out. you can't stop several very nice things from happening. Your lips turn nat urally rosy. Your eyes sparkle, your complexion clears. It becomes beau tiful. Your face looks like that of a prosperous, ruddy, well-fed, . refined gentleman, or if you are a woman, your complexion becomes the real kind that the whole world so admires. S.S.S. Is also a powerful body-builder, be- -cause it builds new and more blood cells. That's WhV It fills out sunken cheeks, bony necks, thin limbs, helps regain lost flesh. It costs Jittle to tiave this happen to you. S. S. S. la soia ai an arug stores, in two sizes. The larger size is the more- economical. OBITUARY J. C. Baxley. On Friday night. February 10th the gentle spirit of Mr. J. C. Baxley passed from this world of .sorrow and trouble unto that land where aH is Joy and peace, and where sick ness and troubles come no more. He was one of the best men this writer ever knew, and we have known him all our life. To know him was to love him. He always had a warm hand-clasp for those he met, and even the little children were greatly attached to him. Raft Swamp church and community have suffered a great loss. He was a dem nd was one of the best most faithful worker we ever saw j na place was never vacant, when there was any service at the church unless providencially hindered and if there was sickness in the community, or any of hi neighbors were in distress he never failed to ecrae. O, we loved him. and thnuvh sorely grieved to give, him up, yet we bow n nuraoie suomisslon to the Lord's will for we know he makes no mistaks, and we know we can meet him, and look into that smiling face and clasp the loving hand again, and though he U gone from us, yet his influence will live on and on. and may the young men and boys of hi class in Sunday school whom he loved so dearly, and plead with se earnest ly to, give their lives to the Saviour, may they hear his voice a it were speaking, back to them, and pleading with them yet to sur render. May they, try to emulate his life. Oh, that they may go forward and fill hi piae and carry the work on successfully. -. To the loved one who are heart- broken we extend our heartrfelt sympathy and though we know his place can never be filled, there will be a vacant chair in the home hut some day we will meet- him' again where partings J cum m more, vr sorrow nor as those wbo have no hope. "In my Father's house are many : man ions," and be has gone on to receive a crown of life, and has entered in i th mansions above. : ,- We'll mis kirn In the Sunday school , WeJU mis him in the home, Well mise hhn everywhere " , ' ' For many day to comet - We'll mis hi .gentle voice and -Vkt loving words of cheer, Bit when we enter heave we will not miss i him. there...,-.. ,t The funeral was conducted by Rev. A.'K. Paul assisted by Rv. Mr. CaahweU and Rev. Mr. Pridgcn, and the remain were laid to rest in the cemetery near the church amidst a great bost ef ear row lag - relatives) ' and friends. The; grave -was , completely covered wHh beautiful flower. .;.-,.,, Ms J. . Mm. ' TtedSteeA ( f, I on the bail I - I isyour - In v. I guarantee I Uf Highest! E APoss.ble Jj . 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