The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-10-11
GENERAL REMARKS.


The Boil Worm Is Damaging the Cotton
Crop to a Very Great Extent.
The last month has brought but little
change in the crop conditions through
out the state. Considered as whole,
the weather has been rather unfavora-
bic than favorable, and both corn and
cotton have suffered to some extent.
COTTON.
The receipts of cotton at the interior
towns verities the reports of the depart
ment that in many localities the crop is
from 10 to Is days late. The continued
rains in North Georgia have added to
the development of weed at the ex-
pense of the maturing of the crop, rem
dering it liable to greater damage from
early frost.
In Special localities great damage is
reported from boil worms, indeed we
are not aware of any occasion or year in
which the crop has been injured to such
an extent by this pest. The ravages of
the worm is reported as amounting to q
disaster in Jasper county, and the in
jury by them as unparalleled in Oconee
and Oglethorpe counties.
1t is with regret that we note the
falling price of our staple crop, and that
1t now commands price far below re-
munerative figures at which it can be
produced. The commissioner in re-
cent monthly talk called special atten-
ton to the effect that proper handling
of the crop would have on the price it
would command in the market. We
would emphasize this and urge our
farmers to exercise care in gathering
and handling the crop. In the event
farmer should consider it desirable to
hold his crop, or any part of it, let him
see to it that it is properly protected
from the weather, and that no deterio-
ration in grade takes places by neglect
full exposure on his part. The lessons
we should learn from the present ruin.
GUS prices are severely taught, but let
us, as far as possible, profit by them
and improve the condition and capacity
of our land, diversity our crops and
render ourselves Independent and our
farms selfsustaining. 1t may not be
amiss to call attention to another mat
ter in this connection, which has been
often touched upon in the publications
of the department., and that is the at
tention we should pay to the marketing
of any side crop Of which we may have
a surplus. The feet that our money
crop has always found ready bidders
for cash in city and village has led to
carelessness In the disposition of the
smaller products Of the farm, and many
dollars have been lost by indifference in
this matter. 1t behooves us to husband
every resource. In response to our in
quiry the method Of saving sweet pota-
toes adopted by a thrifty farmer which
has proven profitable to him will be
found in the inquiry column of this re-
port. The profit to the farmer results
from the difference in price between a
glutted market and market in which
food product is scarce and the de-
mand steady. Georgia is among the
three first states in the production Of
sweet potatoes, and by exercising the
same pains, taking the care adopted by
the farmer we have mentioned, the crop
could be made the source of much
greater profit.
CORN.
We note no substantial change in the
corn crop since our report fer August
With the failure of the crops in the
west we are to be congratulated on the
prospective yield in Georgia.