The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-08
Baking THE
BOIL WEEVII
WILL BE ATTENDED BY DELE
GATES FROM ALL STATES.
INTEREST MANIFESTED
Means Much to The South. For a
Hundred Years to Come The South
Will Produce all the Cotton That
the World Will Require.


"The National Boil Weevil Con-
vention" to be held at Shreveport,
Louisiana, December 18th to 18th,
and which will be attended by dele
gates from many states both east and
west of the Mississippi River, has cut
out for it, task, the success of
which means the salvation and the
failure Of which means possibly the
eventual destruction or serious cur
tailment Of the south s greatest sta
pie. This subject will be discussed
in far broader and more compre-
hensive manner than ever before in
the effort to find ways and means to
check the eastward progress of the
weevil over southern cotton fields.
Preparations have been made to
have present many of the most dis
tinguished scientists of the country
to confer with the practical planters
and it is believed some substantial
benefit will result and a device will
be found to check if not totally elm
mate the pest which threatens the
very life of southern prosperity.
Planters, cotton men, spinners and
statisticians are agreed that this sea-
sons cotton crop, favored in every
possible way by ideal weather, has
taxed the labor and the ACREAGE of the
South to the utmost degree The per-
feet combination Of circumstances,
which may not be duplicated in a
generation has resulted in record
breaking crop. Undoubtedly, the
splnners will consume far more cot
ton this season than ever before in the
history of the industry, and just so
long as the South continues to supply
all the cotton the spinners require no
very strenuous or sweepingly con-
certed effort will be made to make
India, Africa or Australia big cotton
producers.
The rapid encroachment of the boil
weevil, however, is having very Sc
rious effect on the confidence of for
eign spinners who looking ahead sew
eral years, are wondering where their
supplies of raw cotton are~to come
from when the boil weevil will have
devasted all the fields west and posi-
bly, east Of the Mississippi, as they
have done in Southern Texas, and
when the American mills shall have
greatly increased their annual takings.
Every year the world requires in
creased quantities of clothing, and the
manufacturers of dry goods require
increased quantities of raw cotton.
For hundred years to come the
South can and will produce all the
cotton the world will require, pro-
vided the progressive ravages of the
boil weevil be checked In the boil
weevil infested districts ten acres in
many instances fail to yield one bale
of cotton. Experts assert this will
be the condition Of the entire cotton
belt, unless some successful method
of destroying the boil weevil be found
Immediately.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi
whose recent telegram to President
Francis of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition in regard to President
Roosevelt has caused wide spread
comment, will preside over the DELHI
eratiOns of the convention.
The deepest interest in the coming
convention is being taken by leading
citizens throughout the South, and
by the Northern and foreign cotton
interests.
Success will mean much to the
South, but should the delegates fail to
find remedy for the boil weevil evil,
it will mean nothing less than calam-
ity to the cotton industry of the South
within very few years. Therefore
many prominent men, who have given
the matter deep thought, are person
ally urging the various sections of the
several states to send full delegations
to Shreveport on December 18th.