Saturday March 24, 1917
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' Farmer! Warned Hat WeeYil Ii
Not Killed - .
TAKE no chances," says State En-
1 tomologist E. Lee Worsham of
Georgia, in his advice -to farmers
about trusting that the winter has
checked the boll weevil,
"While temperatures of. 10 to 12
degrees will kill weevils, -it does not
follow that because the thermometer -registered
at such figures that it is;
so cold where the boll weevil is hid-;
den snugly away under, roofs," bark
of trees, in old stumps, cribs, hay
stacks, etc. - .
"Whatever the winter. may have
done for the weevil it is very certain
that enough remain alive and active
to do plenty of damage to cotton this J
year. High priced cotton is," of
course, very, inviting, which Inclines,
the farmer to hope and believe the
weevil has been hard hit. by the
winter, but the farmer will make a
serious mistake if he does not follow
the advice which has been given him
about growing cotton tinder . boll
weevil conditions, and if he does not
diversify and prepare to live at home,
as far as possible. It takes very few
weevils to produce enough offsprings
to clean up a cotton crop of a whole
county in a season. The best advice .
I can give the farmer in the boll
weevil territory is "Play Safe."
"From seventy -.weevils,'' according
to the Bureau of Entomology of the
United States Department of Agri
culture, as many as 3,001,250 weevils
maybe produced from the four gen
erations of one season." "
W. E. Hinds, State Entomologist of.
Alabama, on the same subject, issues
this statement: "Plenty of weevils
will survive to give serious t trouble
this season, providing; we'v have '."aver- .
age climatic conditions from now on;;
It will undoubtedly be . wiser: for far
mers to keep their cotton acreage
down to what they ican be sure of
caring for well. I sincerely i hope
that farmers will not get into a trap
by planting former acreages with ex
pectations that the severe winter has
Uncle John Says
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year when
. kind o' pat
feed ourseh
This is a year when we farmers can
be the best kind o' patriots by doin' our
Uvelest to feed ourselves and our coun
try.
destroyed the boll weevils. . Food
crops still promise to be high, and
promise excellent returns to the far
mer who will give them place on his
farm program." , - ;
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Have You Ever
Suspected
that the cause of various
annoying ills might lie in the
daily cup of tea or coffee?
A sure and easy way out
of coffee tnd tea troubles
is to shift to ;
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anything harmful b this
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just the nouruhinj good
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Postum has put thou
ands of former Ua and
coffee drinkers - oh . ,the
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"There's a Reason
Velvet Beans One of Our Best
Crops
"MO LESS in importance to growing
our food is the question of raising
sufficient feed for our livestock and
building: up our soils." says Director
E. R. Lloyd of the Mississippi Ex
periment Station and Extension De
partment. . - ' j" - '. .''; '.;; '
"One of the best feed and fertilizer
crops our farmer's can .grow," he says;
"is velvet beans. Crushed velvet beans
in the hull -and corn in "equal pro
portions make a balanced ration for
hogs, cattle', or horses, and the vines
are worth as much as $17 an acre for
fertilizer. The meal from tfie beans
in the hulls is worth about one half
as much as high-grade cottonseed
meal,'testihg about Al2 percent of fat
and 17 to 18 per cent protein.
"The yieldi of this crop are enor
mous. Even afttr severe storms 28Q0
pounds of beans in the hull per acre
were harvested at the McNeil Branch
Station, and it has been no trouble
to -make as much as 3000 pounds to
the acre. The harvesting is not' ex
pensive as a good hand can pick from
500 to 600 pounds a day and the us
ual rate of pay is about 15 cents a
r hundred.
"The beans should be planted after
I the land warms up or about the mid
dle ; of .April. The Early Speckled,
Osceola and Chinese are early and
prolific varieties. They are usually
planted and cultivated once or twice
with a shallow implement. They make
tho most, seed where they have a
support crop like corn. A good way
of planting them is two rows of corn
and two rows of velvet beans. They
are also planted in the drill with the
corn, which is all right on thin land,
but where the land is rich the beans
planted in this way cover the corn."
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HERE'S AN OPTIMIST
Tin nrlu for nntimiam ; must be Awarded
i ..Mnn.A' nnm ttt tha rural district, of
luiaini An old man alttlnf? 4n - the roof
of. his bouse during a flood, watching' the
waters rise, when a neighbor, who possessed,
a boat rowed across to him.
Halloa, John, he said, "have all your
row is been wasnea away uui moimini ,
V "Yes, but the ducks can swim. ;
ht. Arri n'r thA water?"
'Well, they said the crop would be a fall
"I see the flood b.ai reached Above your
That's all right! Them winders seeded
1Q
Concrete Has
on the
Farm
Many U
A Concrete Hog
YaHow, for Instance
THERE is nothing difficult about the use of
concrete. Most farmers do their own concrete
work around their -buildings and in the barn
yard. The rules for successful concrete are few and
simple. Use clean sand and pebbles or broken stone
in the right proportions. Mix thoroughly with
any brand of portland cement, then be careful to
properly place and protect the fresh concrete.
If a good, clean wallow is not provided for hogs they will make
a wallow in the mud. A concrete wallow is mighty comfortable in hot
weather, and is the means of preventing disease. Prepared solutions
in the water kill germs. The hogs do all the work. They like it.
A concrete hog wallow is simple to build. The material concrete
is the same as that used in great bridges, canal locks and dame,
A postal card request saying, "Send me booklet No. 142," will
bring you a free copy of Concrete Troughs, Tanks, Hog
Wallows, Manure Pits and Cisterns,"
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