February,-1922.1 ;
WORK OF THE "SOUTH -CAROr
ff0R UNASTATJONSigS?
, Combination of RemeM
Needed for Boll Weevil
THE most important; wprk of the
Sation entomologist has been di
rected naturally against' the boll
i Life history and hibernation
Sdies have shown that the weevil be
sin this state much as it does in
?h states south and west. Hiberna
on data showed thatch majority of
Tevils come out of hibernation during
S and that all were out by June 1
Parasites of the boll weevil are being
studied also to try to determine condi
Snns favorable, to their development
and detrimental to the weevil.
A great deal of information has
been secured and records which may
have important bearing on the final
solution of the boll weevil, problem, but
o satisfactory control measures have
been developed; and studies and ex
periments to date indicate that there is
no known practice or operation that
will control the weevil, and that only
by diligent application of all the im
proved practices developed in other
states, such as early stalk destruction,
cleaning up fields, picking weevils and
squares, early planting, of best varie
ties, proper fertilization, rapid shallow
cultivation, and poisoning, can the
weevil be controlled.
II. Insect Pests and Plant Diseases
AS A result of work on cotton an
thracnose, a fungous boll rot of
cotton formerly causing a loss of three
to five million dollars in South Caro
lina alone, the disease has now been
practically eliminated by control meas
ures based on seed selection, crop rota
tion, 'and the planting of old seed.
Studies on the wireworm have de
veloped the fact that this pest can be
controlled by increasing the humus
content of the soil and by intelligent
use of cover crops and summer- leg
umes. Studies on the control of the red
spider show that this pest is dependent
entirely on winter food plants and
winter minimum temperatures and
summer humidity. The entomologist
is therefore able to predict red spider
outbreaks and instruct farmers to pre
pare for their control.
The cotton root louse, a, serious pest
of the greater part of this state, has
been studied carefully and it .has been
found that a successful winter cover
crop which eliminates the winter food
plants of the insect, such as life-everlasting,
greatly delays the spring re
colonization of the pest, shallow culti
vation also being helpful.
M.-Experiments With Dairy Cattle
UHTH South Carolina' spending an
nually about $4,000,000 for butter
bought in from other states, the ex
periments conducted with dairy cattle
"re directed towards increasing the
number and improving the production
?f the dairj cattle in the state. By
Postering the Advanced Register work,
the average production of the milk
rows in South Carolina is gradually
"emg raised. There are now 25 breed
,ls doing Advanced Register testing
vvork m cooperation with the Experi
ment Station. A total of 81 records
complete since July, 1920, show a gen
eral average of 436.64 pounds of butter
tat. iests of the comparative value of
corn silage and sorghum silage for
mK production indicate that sorghum
furnish a larger tonnage of com
paratively cheap silage..
An experiment in the feeding of min-
cral Salts to enwa tonA n chivor that
2s Producing large quantities of
erals
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not eret pnniiorri nf murrain tnin.
,CQs- l his experiment will show
' Phosphorus will increase milk pro-.
r such mineral salts as calcium
increase milk pn
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