The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-12
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10 per- cent aooVe the $fV saVeo m the
 These plots are nov sown in wheat. oats and rye and look very promising
 we cuitivate thirty to forty acres. besides these plots, many more than we can manure with stable manure. using commercial fertilizers: but one as much as any five of the others. though we give each the same cultiva- tion Jack Smith in soSthern Rural ist.
 Cotton Bags and Cotton Basging. One of the most important questions to engage the attention of the South a tion anss of ' cotton. We are growing more cotton than the world is needing under normal demand and in order to keep
 the matter of supply and ,Ssr demand Traw eaqs s.. cotton or increase the consumption or cotton. It Is much more desirable to do he latter than the former. We can increase the demand here at home quite materially without going into foreign countries. We are now using jute in enormous quantities to make just as we'll be made from our own from the shores of the United States ra raw Product. besides giving a tremen dous monopoly. to one or two strong corporations who handle 1t. Clearly it
 tb,s 50 system sse .sids which W works hardship to Southern producers both ways. In the matter of bags for guano alone. 1t would require 2 large number Of milts nts and considerable quantity or raw cot- ton.
 It will require one and a half yards probaSiy S5. .ooe.ooo bags used for, fer
 shis siliseys weais ,P ssuirs sss yards
 5Sts iGiGS000 Ssies Sas been Sa that nearly seventy million burlap bags are used in the South, and If the whole place of barrels for rice. grits. coffee and such other commodities we could soon run the total consumption of cot
 ton into bags s9 the snnpsiy spisni1d We SSea are p paying out annually about twenty three million dollars import duty on purisp
 bags and 1uts All of .ot,n, this co1nld .Sn be De
 place. With the use of cotton begging as Q covering for our cotton we could ] lion bales annually. just about the amount of the present surplus we nave on hand. There is no obstacle in the bags. The fertilizer companies will be quite willing to make the change 1T | the farmers request 1t.
 Tnre on Cotton.
 The only difficulty in displacing jute with cotton for covering our cotton bales is the proper adjustment of the
 %ss.s of in tha the two fsrs Southern Cotton Association will soon | take up this matter with the leading
 sa @ the 9 the d1esson | adjusted. It will also take Up the mat ter of displacing burlap bags with cot. ton and endeayor to get mills started The South can solve many of the present difficult problems that confront Southern cotton producers by concert
 ne'9a no Snestion s f of Rso %ore vital I | at the present time than to increase the
 consumption Of the south's great staple President Southern Cotton Association l The Boil weevii.
 Farmers Bulletin No. 2i6, just pub
 iished by the United States Depart | ment of Agriculture. treats of the con trol cf the boil weevil. and was pre- | pared by Dr. W. D. Hunter. of the Blu
 reau of Entomology. a special agent in tions. The bulletin starts with Re | concentrations" summary of the con- Il clusions arrived at relative to means | for control of the boil weevil. Believ- l ing 1t to be to the advantage of every | cotton raiser in the South to have ac- | cess to these recommendations, we re- Il produce them below. It is necessary | | the coming of the weevii. The follow ing recommendations will be of assist | ance:
 hTe work of the Bureau of Ento- raology for several years has indicated that there is not even a remote prob ability that the boil weeviI will ever be exterminated. As a matter of fact, no
 injurious insect has ever been exter-
 minated. Some species. like the Rocky
 Mountain locust In this country, have
 died out more or less on account or ell
 matic influences, and reasonably ef-
 fective methods of combating others
 ike Phylloxera in France. have been
 perfected.
 Although the very large yieid or coy. | ton of former times may no longer bt | possible in the region now infested
 hy the boil weevil, 1t is entirely feas.
 Ibie to produce cotton at margin oi profit that will compare favorably witt
 that resulting from the production o
 most of the staple crops of the unitet States by following what has eecom'