The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-11-05

and will make rs bales; have picked
81 bales, Will not make money on
cotton; have 40 head OF hogs that
will weigh 200 pounds each. and
eight head mules and horses. will
make money on horses, mules and
hogs, and will sell 700 tons or hay. -
Now taking what Mr.. Furgerson
says as basis, he has not done SC
| bad on staple diversification, and |
agree with HIN ;or the following rea
sons Vile has It's acres In cotton, on
which he makes rs bales. His 40
head OF hogs will weigh 5000
pounds; at cents, will bring him
$3.50. His hay crop, 100 tons; he
gets SIS ton for 1t at Corsicana;
amounts to 500; his horse and mule
crop, eight head $1,000 Total ST.
$50. Divide this 1920 by 40 and
throw 1t into cotton at $40 per bale.
and you add 81 bales more cotton to
| Mr.. Furgerson rs bales which gives
| him the result of I32 bales Of cot
tom off of It's acres, or 377 pounds
ana fraction ofsIint cotton. to- the.
acre; then add the money from the
seed OF rs bales and count the hay
and corn Mr.. Furgerson has saved
| for his home use, and / believe that
you will agree with Mr.. Eurgerson.
| that diversified farming in staple
products will hep you over the boil
weevil crisis, and get the red lines
| under your account every year, with
a fair profit in other years. Mr.. Fur
10 IN IN 81 IN h.vt
will not forget to stand by his horses,
mules, hogs and hay crop, as side
line, to help him over the cobble
stones of cotton and boil weevil.
/ went to several other places near
! Mr.. Furgerson's and found practi-
cally the same results. Corsicana re-
ceives quite lot of cotton; hence [.
went to the yard of the public
weigher where all cotton that Is
hauled in has to be weighed before
it can be sold. Here ! found the boys
behind the guns; the men who fol-
low the pillow, and who make the cot
ton. When I informed them Of my
mission the unanimous sentiment was
We'll. brother, IL you have come to
Texas to find. out how to stop the
boil weevil. you might as well go
back to Louisiana, and tell your peo-
pie it can't be done. Some years we
| make fair crops and pull out all right
IN 1902 we were busted and the sit
| uation was blue, but we went to liv-
ing at home, quit the credit system,
because we could not get 1t, and ev-
erything we needed on the farm we
raised. Since We commenced that
system, we have prospered, although
we make less cotton, we diversity,
| make our own meat, our syrup, raise
our mules and live at home and
when the season hits right, we make
! one-third to one-half bale of cotton
to the acre; when rain comes in June
and July, we know the boil weeyil is
going to get US. and we shut down on
ali expenses, and manage to live, but
do not clear any money. This year
we are doing very we'll and will clear
money"
Says Weevils Are a Blessing.
/ then made inquiry as to the most
successful farmer around Corsicana,
! or in Navarro county. Mr.. Young in
formed me he thought John S. Glib
| son was the man. | told him my BUS
| mess and said l had come to him to
| him to get his experience and solu-
ton of the boil weevil problem. He
said, Great God, man, can give
you my experience, but there is no
solution to the boil weevil problem.
IL had all the boil weevils in ca ge
and could burn them, or distribute
them on every cotton plantation in.
the South, if farmers agreed not to
hang me, / would gladly distribute
them. The cotton planters of the
South may look upon them as a
curse, and they are when they first
visit YOU, but they will eventually
be turned to blessing. Why sir, IL
it were not for the boil weevil, Tex
as would be making close to 5000
900 bales of cotton today and the
prize would be cents pound. Stop
them. destroy them, no sir, the fur
Their they travel the better. 1t looks
unfair for one section to have them
and other sections to be exempt, but
we cant all have blessings, or curses
at the same time; they come in spots,
and gradually. So far as killing the
boil weevils out, the man who says it
Cd1 OC OOuC lS d 1901. WuCu SSdSOu-
able years come for cotton you can
make it by early planting and rapid
cultivation. When unreasonable
years come and rains overtake you
in June and July, the boil weevil will
| more than divide the crop with you
/ have farmed for 90 years and sue
ceeded at it, but for the past six
or seven years | have had boil weeyil
and my cotton yield on an average
of one-half bale to the acre has been
reduced to one-third Of bale to the
acre, and some years, like 1908, they
wiped the cotton crop out, but in
spite of all this. make money farm
ing in modest way In the past
four years have cleared SIT, 900
against boil weevils. have the pref
test black land farm in Texas; when
you see it, you will admit it. Every
row is laid off as straight as a gun
barrel; every row three feet four
inches, Just so the cultivator will
track the, rows without frn,1h1n