Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-29
TO INCREASE THE
YIELD OF COTTON
Cotton Seed CFLSlGrS to Help
the Planters.

! The Interstate Cottonseed CrusherS
Association will endeavor to develop
me MS to increase the yield of cotton
per acre by putting into the hands d
the planters the instructive bulletins
of the Federal Agricultural Depart
ment AS. a first step in organizing
this campaign, the association has
sent out the following letter to its
members and to mill men generally:
Conference.-The undersigned com
mittee was appointed by the Interstate
Crushers' Association to devise some
means by which the association could
help increase the yield of cotton per
acre
The committee have concluded that
! it was most desirable to do something
which might assist with the 1911 crop.
They have had the permission of the
Executive Committee to take the mat
ter up at this time and present the
| following data
Through the very kind assistance
Of the Agricultural Department At
Washington, we expect to prepare a
series of from six to ten circulars or
bulletins. These will have to do
with the cultivation of the land, seed
selection, planting, fertilization, etc.
They will be mailed so as to reach the
planters at the appropriate time be-
tween the first of January and the
maturing Of his crop; l. e., to give him
the necessary information at the
time he needs it,
These circulars will be sent in bulk
direct from Washington to such OH
mills members of our association as
become subscribers to our plan Sim
ultaneously with the sending of these
circulars from Washington, a letter
will be sent out by this committee
calling attention to the fact that the
government is sending the corculars
and asking the oil mills to be on the
lookout for them and arrange for their
distribution.
If all our members became interest
ed we could distribute to something
like 500 oil mills and each mill could
distribute to anywhere from twenty to
forty seed shippers, agents or cores
pondents from whom they are buying
cottonseed We thought that each one
OF these agents would come in close
contact with a certain number of
planters whom he could influence to
use the information.
If you take 500 oil mills with twenty
seed shippers or correspondents each
and have one each of these reach
twenty planters, it means a total of
100000 planters scattered all over the
South
There is nothing new in the infor-
nation which the committee will furn-
ish the planters in regard to increas-
ing the yield of cotton per acre. It IS
the same information which the gov
eminent has had for several years
and which they have been ready, on
the request of any person in the South
to furnish. The same data has been
put out by state experiment stations
and some of the large railroad com
panies.
1t is not the printing of the infor-
nation itself and sending it to the
oil mills which is going to do any good
at all in this matter. 1t is rather en-
tirely matter of whether our mem
bers can see that this information is
distributed and used. If our associa-
ton can furnish Il means of getting
this information to the planter and
seeing that he uses it, they can ac
complish great good, but the work
must be along the line of seeing that
it gets 0 the planter and that he
uses it. This will require a system by
which the oil mill would follow up
the information given to their seed
shippers and correspondents in a
personal letter every time circular
is sent out
Every oil mill manager will have to
take a personal interest in the num-
Der of planters around the towns 81
each one of his seed shippers who
had taken this matter up and were
following the suggestions given in
our circular by the actual cultivation
and growing of his crop. The manag-
er would have to keep in touch with
this, ask about it all of the time. then
look into it when he visited the towns
himself and have his travelling men
to do the same
1t seemed best, after some consider
alton, to make nominal charge to any
mill wishing this service, and to only
give the service to the oil mills who
want it and signify their want by
paying a small fee for it. The gov
eminent officials have emphasized
very strongly to us the fact that an
immense amout of this literature
which they get up is sent out and
never used, and our committee feels
that it is absolutely useless to simply
make a general distribution of a very
large number Of these circulars to oil
mills without knowing whether or moi
they would take any interest in theh
distribution.
The fee of S. per mill which we arc
asking for this service is not intended
to cover it's cost, but more to place g
value upon it, so that we may know
that those who ask for it are going tc
take some interest in it.
The committee would like very mucf
to be able, at the next annual conven.
ton in June, to present some stats