The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-02-06
FIVE ACRES OF COTTON
BROUGHT $4,000 TOA
GLYNN COUNTY FARMER

10 near OtnerS 80 get them on t1e
program sure. Down our way the U. s.
agricultural department experts can
raw a crowd any day for we know
they have the latest information for
us. wnat Is needed Is intensive cot
ton culture, few acres so we'll and
thoroughly prepared, fertilized and
tended as to insure big crop. That
Is the way to get start. None OF
these hundred acres red hill farms for
me from which you can't get an acre
age of tAird Of bale.
Making cotton is no easy task and
the Glynn county man who thinks
that all he has to do is to scratch
up the land, spill few seed and then
go fishing until cotton picking time
rolls around VIII find he is out of
the running. But take five or ten
acres and make that plot as rich as
you can and hustle it by plenty of
elbow grease and when the crop is
sold you will have return equal to
at least double the value of the land
you use."
st. Simons island will be in. the
thick of the 1910 fight, according to
reports coming to the committee.
West Point plantation where the new
West Point Institute Is to be built,
will have one or more plats of ten
acres each, while others around Fred
erica will bring the total up to prac-
tically one hundred acres. AS the
original home of the sea island cot
ton st. Simons Is just now In the
limelight and the far-seeing owners
of land will see to it that plats of Ave
acres are put in wherever tenants and
troopers are to be had to tend them.
A finer opportunity for showing pros
pective buyers what can be done with
the land has never before been pre-
sented and any land owner who neg
lects this chance will suffer when buy
ers are looking for locations.
Chairman Parker of the planting
committee, selected at the meeting
held at the city hall last week was
enthusiastic yesterday over the out
look. "On every side l. am getting
assurances that our committee will
have a large acreage pledged" said
he. Il have several times undertaken
public duty, but never before have /
felt so encouraged. realize how
much 1t means for all of us once we
can prove to the outside world that
we do not have to depend upon the
pine tree for our bread and butter.
1t is NO experiment either, for we
can grow cotton and worlds of it, and
Glynn county can capture the blue
ribbon for the largest yield per acre
or FIVE acres. ~.
"Mr. Leahy, of the A. B. C A., Is
in touch with hundreds of farmers
who want to come here, but they are
afraid OF the venture as yet. One
crop which we can show them will add
thousands of dollars In the way of
real values to our open lands now
lying idle. l am not encouraging over
five or ten acre plats, fer this genera
ton must learn the business all over.
Our grandfathers lived better than
any of us and 1t was cotton, rice and
corn. Our fathers ran off on the
pine tree campaign and this genera
ton has been hustling to simply exist
on the leavings. The pine tree Is not
gone-it has gone so far as our sec
ton goes, and we are now facing g
new condition, one we have known
was coming, but which we have been
trying to dodge.
Cotton as the staple crop can put
Glynn in the front ranks of the state
and we are on trial now to show that
we have the men who can demonstrate
the value Of their goods, or their land
to be exact. The buyer wants to
know what our land Is doing, not what
1t might do
Letters from Mr. Leahy state that
the A., 3. & A can be depended upon
to give the widest publicity to the
results OF the present campaign for
revival Ct cotton culture. photographs
OF the growing crop will be taken
from many desds and again when the
crop ts ready to pick. and these will
be shown In the A.. B. & A. literature
nov going TO all parts of the middle
west and other sections. "Glynn
county cotton" win make a mighty
strong pulling ad for Brunswick i
The convention on February Is now
promises to be- red letter event
since Camden and Glynn county far
ulers viii Join hsndS IA giving. the
q solid sender. Former
Cooley. who has won so many 81 ue
ribbons, will be here as will Or. Bur
rell Atkinson and other WELL known
citizens.
IN the meantime Messre. Parker.
Whitmire and Dubberty win keep up
the campaign for pledges Of one acre,
up to ten. Ample srranger1ents for
fertilizers as well al for the. market
ing have been completed. Work on
the new ginnery ct the six.rnile cross |
ing will Be started BY March l.. 5
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