EXPERIMENTS IN
WEEVIL CONTROL
A. W. McLean Of Lumbarton
Give* Hie ExperiencM
During Past Year
(From The Robceonian)
Mr. A. W. Mr Lean of Lutttbcrton.
who is a successful farmer of long
experience, in response to request
give* the follow ng c-xperirnco In raie
ing cotton under boll weevil condi
tion* during the year 1923:
Mr. McLean -aid chat ho had con
ducted cwrcfiU experiment* on Id*
farms near Lumlwuon, duixdg the
present your, for the purpose of as
certaining the best method* of boll
weoell control. He then gave some
what in detail the icxult of tho ex
perimeiua, refe, ring particularly to
cuitarvl methods, iiiciading the use
of fertilizer The most important
features mentioned by him in connec
tion wttii cultural methods were th:
dcatructioit of old ctnu»n rUllu Ir
the fall of the previous year, ti'ior
ough preparation of the *eed-bud ir
the early ipitng. the one of forlil
iaor of a particular quality, and the
application of nliratv of uidu not later
lltan the Arc: ploughing after the
cotton wsi chopped. Ana.her im
poitar.t feature, he said, was the fact
that after the cotton wa* chopped to
a etand. he ploughed It twelve times,
instead of eight time*, which was hi*
coelom trefoil thr advent of the
weevil.
The ass of Polsosa
• Discussing tho tcsultr pbtainod
from the use of poison, Mr. McLean
we* very emphatic in expressing the
opinion that hi* experiment* ,lemor,
•trUted the feet, hryund nil contro
versy, that poison is an important
method of control
Summarising bis experimentation,
ho stated that he Aral poisoned the
buds in the top .of the young cottou,
beginning about UnT 15tb of May.
when there appeared to be from one
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!o throe weevil* In each boil. Ib
otril for the purpose a mixture com
Po*e<l of flve parta calcium arsenate
unc part mohunoa ami two parta water
applying A* irm with a amall mop
for about ' three week* very ifav
weevils appeared. WIwjm the younl
rnuarca began to appear, the woevlli
came again In IncPutrl numb era
About the 16cn of June he applies
the poiaon again uaiug for that pur
po»e a home-made flvc-uuxaie spray
spraying five roars „t * lime. Tin
ll<iu!d uacd in this case wu composer
of ten parta calf lurr an -enure, tight
of water and two of inolas.es., A noth
»r application of t se rams kind war
! applied in the aamt- way about July
i ln
No other applIcKtion of poison war
> made until the lost week in July
woen the wcrslla begun 10 migrate
The cotton war. then s-o largo amt th»'
weevil* 40 numerous that the liquid
method waa abandoned, and ten
pound* of calcium artnnale waa up
plied to each aete in Lhe form of dry
du»t with a Niagara machine. The
woik wa* lion* thia time beginning
about three o'clock it* the morning
ai d ending aoout cght o'clock, be
en use the dual cannot W effectually
applies! unlev, cite ioushi pi aid* an'
covered with moisture. A eimilai
amount of calcium uiecnatc duet wa*
applied about the inch of August.
A careful account of the coat of
th* var.ou* application of poiaon waa
kept, and it wa* found that thr total
coat of the material and labor, in
rSu.lnig the u*e of the moles, amount
ed to $8.80 per acre, for the five ap
plication*. There waa also at. extra
cost for th*. additional ploughing not
nwsmrj under nomal conditions,
whirh amount.tr to $3.20 an acre. Af
tee adding a small amount for wsu
and tear, and some anmU incidental
expenses, the total additional com
marl* necessary in th* effort to com
bat the boll weevil amounted to ap
proximatcly $12.60 per acre
Th« uxperimonta were conducted
°ri the beet land, with a sandy loam
top aoil and yellow clay aub-*oiI, wall
drained ami In a high state of cuKi
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vaiion H» used 700 pound* of ten*
three-thro* fotUSaor nod 50 pound*
of sods to tho acre. Tho field was
, divided into throe pens. On one
pert the poison wss need a* described,
und thl* produced 1,840 pounds of
: mod cotton per acre. On another
P*ri of t^a same field where the con
dition* were exactly tho same, he
□aed no poison, and obtained a yield
of 1.280 pound* of teed cot tea per
•f rc. Tbc total value of the addition
al cotton and aoed obtained by tha
ot» of poison was approximately
432.80, und deducting from this the
additional expense of (8.88 per acre,
ma.W necessary by the use of poison,
there 1* a differential of |t4 par acre
!n fuvor of in* poisoning mcthorT.
Florid. Method
On a third plot in the same field
he rxpertmented with the so-called
Florida method. In thl* case at] the
first square* were removed from the
cotton on the 20th of June and oo.
application of calciua* arsenate at
jthv rate of xix pound* per sere was
applied with e bend duster. The ocst
of picking off the square* was $4 per
acre, and the application of the eal
dum arsenate curt 82.80 an ueru.
The yie'd in this case was 1,840
■rounds of seed cotton to tha acre.
He ti'd that hit experiment* em
phasized the importance of thorough
preparation before planting, careful
-elwt'nri of seed ami fertiliser Dead,
intensive and proloagvd cultivation,
the destruction of the early weevil*
and tiro fact that there U, ap to the
prevent Irene, -no adequate method of
control of the wuovil, particularly
after the migratory period begins.
The fight on the weevil, he ealrl,
resolves Itaclf Into a race between the
farmer and the weevil, the result de
pending largely upon the ability of
the farmer to produce a fair crop
of mxture boile before the wrvvit be
gin* to migrate, for when this takes
Suggestions About How
To Prune Apple Treed
Raleigh. N. C. Nov. SO—This it
the time of the year for orohordieti
to be planning nummary thing! u
he done in die orchard to IneretM
froit prod notion for next yaw. CM
tbeee. pruning the trees is mm thing
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thr State Celiege and Department el
Agriemlture. gives some simple sug
gestions fee pruning the apple trees.
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before the bads open is lb# spring.
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Mr. Payne’s suggestions about bow
to prana are aa fallows:
"Tbs primer/ objaet of pruning is
for fruit production, therefore the
proper amount of wood must bo pro
place, no method now known i* nu
onably effective.
In conhdenng tho rwaolU of the
experiment*, he an Id that tt moat be
remembered that dwring tfc the piw
nnt year, with a dry June nn<l July,
the condition* werr extra maty favor
able, not only for Ur* production of *
pood crop generally, bat al*o for ttoe
application of rvmndloo in connec
tion with boll weevil control.
Bo collod attention to tho fact that
oondition* may ba, and no doobt
would be, entirely different another
yaor
In eonclurion, ha oaM that no ef
f active netted of era din* ting or con
trolling the boll waooril under ordi
nary weather coodlUoaa ha* yet been
diaeoverod; that pataoming by cab
cion* amende and am at cuharal
method* provide partial control, with
the dvgro* of cffeeHvonet* varying
with tho weather and,other condition*
nocher reason why*
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