The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-11-07

and will make Is 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 100 tons of hay" !"
Now taking what Mr.. Furgerson
says as basis. he has not done so
bad on staple diversification, and |
agree with hin Cor the following rea
sons: He has It's acres in cotton, on
which he makes IS bales. His 40
head of hogs will weigh 5000
pounds; at 6 cents, will bring him
$3.50. His hay crop, 100 tons; he
gets s. ton for it at Corsicana;
amounts to 500; his horse and mule
crop, eight head $1,000. Total ST.
ESQ. Divide this 1920 by 40 and
throw it into cotton at $40 per bale
/ and you add 81 bales more cotton to
Mr.. Furgerson's Is bales which gives
him the result of I32 bales of cot
ton off Of IT'S acres. or 377 pounds
and a fraction of lint cotton to the
acre; then add the money from the
seed of Is bales and count the hay
and corn Mr.. Furgerson has saved
for his home use, and believe that
you will agree with Mr.. Furgerson,
that diversified farming in staple
products will help you over the boil
weevil crisis, and get the req lines
under your account every year, with
fair profit in other years. Mr. Fur
gerson is going to stick to cotton, but
/ MI af IN Sfo nv h,c
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 plow, and who make the cot
ton. When l Informed them of my
mission the unanimous sentiment was
We'll, brother, If 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 it, 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-t third to one-ha1f bale of cotton
to the acre; when rain comes in June
and July, we know the boil weevil is
going to get us. and we shut down on
all expenses, and manage to live, but
do not clear any money his year
we are doing xery we'll and Ktll c1HE
money. s
| SAYS Wceyils Are q Blessing.
I +t,.r ,,,a.1o ;rnui,-xy ~ the rnnst
snccasaf,l 81 rn,er arnnnd cnrsicana.
- TN. =, "a. ,,arrr county Mr. Young In
formed me ba tbouebt Inhn Gfb-
CO., MO. Tho 3ola him n,f nus-
- ;nass a,d soid haa como ia him to
h;n - ea. hi. avrorience and solu-
tion of the holl weevil problem. He
sa;d- acroo+ cod man can give
yo,, NV experience. but there is no
solution to the boil weeyil problem.
IfIhad all the boil weeyils in a cage
and could burn them. or distribute
them ON every cotton plantation in
the South If farmers agreed not to
hane me. I would gladly distribute
thor, The cotton nIanters of the
south NAV look unon them as a
curse and they are when they first
yisit vou hut thew will eventually
ho turnod tn blessing. WHY sir. il
- were NOT for the holI weeyil. Tex
.s would he making close tn 6 6.00O.-
0oo bales of cotton today and the
nrice would he cents a pound. Stop
tbem DESTROY them. no sir. the fur
thor thav travel tne better. It looks
LET tor ono co ,t;on to have them
ond n+har sections IN he exemnt but
,o oon,+ oil have blessings. or curses
=. .ho son,e time. thew come in spots.
ara .rodu.,lv ca far as killing the
hoI1 1,aoviIc ont the man who saws it
~, no dono ;s fool When season.
lii vaars come for cotton Won can
aLo Il hv earlv nlanting and rapid
n,,1t;v.+ion When unreasonable
vaars como and rains oyertake YOU
- 80 90 I,,1v tho ho,l weevi, will
- naoro than divide tho crop with YOU.
: u 80 To- farrad for ~, wears and sue
. a.., n ~ - h,,+ for tho mast six
o.euH =. .anan years have had boli weeyil
ond INV cotton WELD on an average
s.aea " Un ~ oma>+hird of q hale to the
..,.s +ha. ootton cron ont but in
snite of all this. make money farm