The leader., 1905-02-11
Cultural system.

LIT. .. "A. Knapp, Lne greatest aS-
riculturist in the South, and who has
had charge of the cotton cooperative
demonstration for the United States
department of agriculture as means
of making cotton profitable in the boil
weevil district, says:
"First-Burn every stalk in the fall
while still green This exterminates
the alternating weevils.
"Second-Plow deeper. This helps
force the cotton
''Third-Harrow your ground all
winter. This keeps up the work.
'sFourth-Plant early.
"Fifth-Use maturing seed.
"Sixth-Use fertilizers.
"Seyenth-Plant the cotton in wide
rows, a little wider than the cotton
grows high, and with the stalks wide
apart; this lets the sun in and the
sun kills the weevil.
tEighth-Use a tooth harrow as
soon as the cotton appears. This
breaks the earth crust and helps the
cotton grow.
Ninth Keep cultivating the cot
ton and agitate the squares to knock
off the weevils.
'Tenth-Pick up the fallen squares
and burn them. This is extremely
important.
Eleventh Control too rapid
growth of the plant by barring off or
plowing the ridges away from the
rows, leaving ridges between the
rows.
Twelfth Select your seed for fu-
ture crops from the earliest and larg-
est bolls. Don't get any weeyils in
your seed.
Thirteenth Rotate crops: plant
cotton one year, COW peas and corn
the next. Never let cotton succeed
cotton in the same land.
fourteenth Plant legumes freely
between the cotton rows. 1t inn
proves the mechanical conditions Of
the soil"
And these can be followed by every
farmer in the South with profit, even
if you haven't the boil weeyil
The following is among the resolu-
tions adopted at the, national cotton
convention, December II to Is:
That we heartily approve the meth
DDS already employed as being both
scientific and practical, and that
we emphasize the idea OF thorough
preparation of the cotton lands, re-
duction of acreage. the rotation Of
diversification with efforts to secure
early maturing cotton"
This was the largest and most i'm
portant cotton convention ever held
in the South.
This department will be filled each
week with articles from the best and
most successful farmers Of the South
ern States on cotton and the benefits
of diversihcation, and how to to diver
sify. This paper will be the medium
through which the National Cotton
Association will reach each member
to carry ON the campaign for better
conditions for the cotton farmers.
Every banker, every merchant,
every farmer should see that this
paper goes each week to every cotton
| farmer, landlord or tenant, white or
black, in each schoolhouse cotton as
sociation in this county
Signed reports from Texas, Indian
Territory, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Georgia have recently been received
by National Secretary Oswald Wilson,
Fort Worth. Texas.
One hundred bankers in convention.
at Houston, Texas, January 88, 1905,
unanimously adopted resolutions and
pledged aid, if We mean business.
The South Is short on food and
forage crops and long on cotton;
bring about a parity Raise more to
eat and feed for your stock.
The man who thinks he can slip in
a few acres more because his neigh
Dor is decreasing, deceives no one but
himself. His acreage will be counted.
we have the support Of the hnan-
eiaI interests if wo farmers viii only
do our part We cant afford to do
otherwise.
When each farmer has agreed to
reduce his cotton rs per cent, let him
diversity 25 per cent? plant more feed
crops; plant more to eat at home;
plant SO as to have something to
sell every day"
Unless there IS d uniform reduction
! IN every school district throughout
| the South it viii not avail you to hold
| the surplus now on hand
Cotton IS great crop, but don't
let it be master
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