The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1917 Page: 5 of 8
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Paducah, Texas, February 8, 1917
THE PADUCAH POST
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“Remember the Alamo”
Yes, remember the Alamo-the place where Crockett and many
of our Texas heroes fell—but while you are thinking about this,
we want you to remember another Ala-
mo—and that is ALAMO COFFEE. It
was not the privilege of Crockett, Bowie
and our other heroes to enjoy good Cof-
fee like this—but why should you not?
It is at your hand and you can have it
by only asking for it. We POSITIVELY
GUARANTEE this Coffee in every par-
ticular. If it is not what we say it is,
we will make our guarantee stand up.
Try a can of it, and then tell other folks
how you like it. If you do not like it, bring it back. How much
more could we promise?
There is POSITIVELY none better than ALAMO COFFEE. We
have just received a large shipment. Come and get it.
LOFTIS GROCERY COMPANY
WE’RE AFTER IT
We're after your Blacksmithing and Woodwork of
all kinds this year. Our new, large building is almost
completed and we are prepared to take eare of your Im-
plements “under shed” while working on them. Bring
them round. Your work will be turned out promptly and
right.
JOHN W. BEST
TO GET THE TICK EARLY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The
dipping of cattle in the tick-in-
fested areas will begin earlier
than usual this year, it is an-
nounced. There are now 14,247
vats in commission and it will
be possible with these to dip over
a million cattle each month. It
is planned to begin the work as
soon as possible after March 1
in order to catch the first genera-
tion of ticks hatched in the
spring before they have had time
to lay eggs. In this way, it is
hoped to release much territory
early in the fall.
There is indeed reason to be-
lieve that 1917 will see more ter-
ritory freed from the pest than
any year since systematic erad-
ication was begun. Each county
released from quarantine is an
object lesson to its neighbors, and
cleaned and are still under local
quarantine.
The work in Mississippi, it is
pointed out, will drive a wedge
of tick-free area right down, to
the Gulf. The army of ticks
will be cut in half—to be de-
stroyed piecemeal hereafter—and
a highroad for cattle from the
freed areas will be opened to the
markets of the North.
In the other States east of
the Mississippi the campaign of
eradication is to be pushed vig-
orously by counties. In South
Carolina only ten counties remain
infested and in all of these it
is planned to commence systemat
ic dipping on March 1. Five hun-
dred vats will be in operation
and approximately one hundred
thousand will be dipped regular-
ly. About five thousand square
miles should be freed at the end
of the season.
In Georgia it is planned to add
5,134 square miles to the 16,563
in recent years popular interest
in the movement has been grow-! already released. Fifty-six eoun-
ing. | ties are now free, and work will
One evidence of this is the ae-, be carried on this season in thir-
tion of the people in Mississippi
in making eradication a state in-
stead of a county matter. Un-
der this law systematic dipping
will be conducted this season in
each of the thirty counties in the
State still under Federal quar-
antine. In this area there are
approximately 450,000 cattle and
2,700 vats will be operated. In
addition, dipping will be carried
on in those counties which have
been freed as a whole, but in
which some herds have not been
t.v-threc others. It is expected
that 147,500 cattle will be dipped
in 1,320 vats.
In Alabama systematic work
in fifteen counties should set
free 300,000 cattle and about
11,000 square miles of territory.
Twenty-eight counties already
have been released from quaran-
tine and about 500 pure-bred
bulls have been imported into
them. The grade of cattle, it is
said, is being distinctly improved.
North Carolina still has twen-
ty-five counties under quarantine.
Eight of these it is hoped to clean
up by active work this season
in the others vats will be built
and preparations made for active
work in 1918.
The situation in Florida
somewhat different from that in
the other infested States because
as yet there is no provision for
extending State aid to the coun-
ties in their work of eradication
Consequently progress is largey
dependent upon the amount of
voluntary support received from
associations of stockmen, dairy-
men, bankers, and other busi
ness men. An area of 3,800 square
miles has, however, already been
cleaned, and into this high-class
beef and dairy cattle are being
imported with satisfactory re-
sults. In another county syste-
matic work is being carried on
which should result in release
from quarantine at the end of
this year, seven counties have
appropriated money for the con-
struction of vats, and similar ae
tion is looked for on the part of
a number of others.
West of the Mississippi the
problems of eradication in Louis-
iana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and
Texas will be discussed at a con-
ference to be held at the end of
January in Dallas, Texas, Lou-
isiana, like Mississippi, has made
eradication a State matter. In
the other States the work will
be carried on by counties.
These facts indicate that all
throughout the entire South there
is a determination to be rid of
the tick and that quickly. It
is many years since there was any
question of the feasibility of to-
tal eradication; the chief difficul-
ty has been to convince the peo-
ple that it was really.worth their
while to take up the work. To-
day so much territory has been
freed that the benefits are plainly
apparent, and this difficulty has,
therefore, to a great extent been
removed. In the last three years
more than 110,000 square miles
have been released from quai*an-
tine, leaving 419,000 in the 'en-
tire country still infested. Much
of this area, however, is in Tex-
as, where the problem is some-
75 YEARS OF KNOWING HOW
(BACKED BY Ah UNQUALIFIED GUARANTEE
what different than in the States
i east of the Mississippi. In the
latter section it is reasonable to
suppose that in a few years the
j tick will be a thing of the past.
BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL
A few farmers in every see-
j lion ot the State have made prep-
I a rat ion for the protection of the
j 1917 cotton crop from the rav-
ages of the boll weevil, by plow-
ing under the stalks when the
cotton was picked in October,
but the majority are doing this
work in January and February.
Plowing under cotton stalks in
lull lias two important advan-
tages: First: the stalks have
time to decay; second, a large
per cent of the boll weevils are
destroyed in their hibernating
quarters, as they pass the winter
in the adult stage. Only a small
per cent live through the winter
on land that is plowed in the fall,
while late plowing permits many
to survive.
A study of the life history of
the weevil makes it possible for
us to understand some of its
habits. The mature weevil de-
posits its eggs in the square of
cotton, and in from three to
seven days it hatches into the
grub or larvae stage. The larvae
feeds in the square from seven
to twelve days, then passes in to
the pupal or resting stage. The
adult emerges in about five days,
thus completing the life cycle.
Each female weevil is capable of
depositing about 150 eggs, and
that the progeny from a single
pair of weevils from June 20th.
to November 4th would be 12,-
775,100, is a conservative esti-
mate. Consequently, the earlier
cotton is planted the fewer wee
vils the farmer will have to con-
tend with; not that the early
planted cotton will withstand
attacks, but that they are not so
numerous. The bolls will be form-
ed on the early planted cotton
before the large infestation of
weevils.
The writer made a trip of in-
vestigation to South Texas last
September, and found that cot-
ton planted about the 1st of
March produced from two-thirds
to three-fourths of a bale of cot-
ton to the acre, while coton plant
ed in the same field July 1st and
cultivated by the same man, ac-
cording to his estimate, would
not yield a bale of cotton to sev-
enty acres. It is impossible to
give a definite planting date for
all sections, due to climatic and
weather conditions, but the grow-
er should plant at the earliest
date possible.
Picking and destroying the ear-
ly fallen cotton sqaures has been
very economically and success-
fully practiced in some sections
where cheap labor was obtaina-
ble ; however, this does not take
the place of cultivation. Some
growers made this mistake last
year in East Texas. Thorough
cultivation is the most practical
means of destroying the boll wee
vil in all sections of state. In ad-
dition to this, it is a valuable aid
in the conservation of moisture.
Cultivation should be kept up
tiiromrhout the growing season.
“Laid by” cotton is usually the
first to show the serious effects
of the boll weevil.
By co-operative effort on the
part of the growers of a com-
munity. great results may be ob-
tained from the early planting
of cotton in spite of the fact
that we have to contend with
the boll weevil.—M. E. Ilays, As-
sistant Entomologist, Extension
Service Agricultural and IJeohan-
ical College of Texas.
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DALLAS, TEXAS
Uncle Josh—“Here's a letter
from Nephew Harry, that’s gone
to Africa and says that within
20 rods o’ his house there's a
family o' laughing hyenas.”
His Wife—“Well, I’m glad lie’s
got pleasant neighbors, anyway.
—that’s something.”—Tit-Bits.
north, longitude 8 degrees east | The State Department announce-
from Greenwich and passing ment d('fini,‘g the territory min-
through the following positions: T e-^cth. cl?ar “ ,to
T ... , the latitude and longitude and de-
Latitude 06 degrees north, longi- j partment officials declined to in-
tude 6 degrees east, latitude 54 , terpret the warning but apparent-
degrees 45 minutes east, thence; ly the new mine field would
to a position in latitude 53 de- stretch from the territorial wat-
grees 37 minutes north, longitude ers of Denmark to near The Neth-
:> degrees east, seven miles off erlands coast. It maintained this
the coast of The Netherlands. i would make it extremely dari-
The natural result of enlarging gerous for vessels seeking to make
the mine field on the lines indi-, the outside from German ports,
fated would be to bottle up more Heretofore the British have been
closely the German warships at | depending largely on their war-
Helgoland to lessen the poss:- ships to halt enemy ships trying
bility of raiders escaping the eor- to get into the North Sea.
don of British vessels and mines1 --
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NORTH SEA DANGER ZONE
IS EXTENDED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—A
warning of a considerable exten-
sion of the North Sea Zone des-
ignated as “dangerous to ship-
pers,” was received at the State
beportment today from the Amer-
ican Embassy at Londan. It is
assured the warning means that
the British mine fields are be
ing enlarged, but what ulterior
significance the step may have ia
not known here. The warning
put into the “dangerous” zone
the following waters:,
Area comprising all the waters
except Netherland and Danish ter
ritorial water lying southward
and eastward ef a line commenc-
ing four miles from the coast of
Jutland, in altitude 56 degrees
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1917, newspaper, February 8, 1917; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth755893/m1/5/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.