The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-02-16
PROF. DELOACH
HEARD BY MANY
He TOLD SOME INTERESTING
FACTS CONCERNING cuLTi-
vAT,oN OF STAPLE.
Move Started for the Establishment
of an Experiment Farm in This
county-Endorseme Also Given
Drainage Movement.

The deep interest already manifest
ed in Glynn county Ia farming in gen
orh. a'IG the cultivation of colt.n ia
specific was given additional impetus
yesterday when, before pro lably 200
Brunswick, Glynn and Camden coun-
ty people, Professor r. ]. H. De-
Loach, of the Georgia School OF Agri-
culture, delivered strong aud inter
esting address.
The meeting was notable for the
keen attention paid to every word at
tered by the speaker, and was also
remarkable for the large numhe" Of
actual farmers who were present
r. H. Parker, of the firm &C Far
ker & TAFT, who has been one of the
most enthusiastic advocates of cotton
growing in Glynn county and who
first launched this movement through
The News, presided over the meet
ing.
An interesting event previous to
the address of Professor DeLoach was
a short talk made by F. G. Eason, the
drainage expert attached to the United
States agriculture department, who Is
at present engaged in the work of
making preliminary investigation look
ing to a thorough system of drainage
in GIyn1 county Mr.. Eason stated
that his original ideas of the soil and
of the topography of the county had
been largely confirmed by actual
investigation. He said he wanted to
congratulate the people for the reason
that they had displayed more real en-
thusiasm ard had manifested broad
er desire to do something substantial
than had been the case in any county
in the south to which he had been
detailed.
Professor DeLoach was then intro
duced by Col F. E. TwittX, who is also
taking a deep interest in the new
movement in Glynn county.
Professor DeLoach, who is a clean
cut, farmerbusiness man. at once
caught the attention of his auditors
by relating of a very ludicrous little
joke calculated to stress the occupa-
ton of Cincinnatus.
He announced in the beginning that
he did not intend to make set
speech, that he did not come to the
people to talk to them, but to talk
with them, and that he wanted the
audience to feel perfectly at home
with him, ask as many questions on
the question of cotton planting as they
desired, and in short to make the
best use of him possible. He entered
boldly into the discussion of his sub
ject. manifesting a splendid knowledge
OF every essential detail connected
with the planting of cotton from the
selection of the seed t. the final sale
Of the fieecy staple in the busy marts
Of trade
One great trouble" announced the
speaker, in the beginning OF his talk,
with the cotton planter is that he
falls and doesn't know why; he is a
theorist when Il comes to the actual
doing OF the work upon which depends
his income and his living; he does not
go at his work vita the practical
conclsion that marks the conduct OF
the trained business men, he does
not measure his fertilizer and gener-
ally he fails TO measure his acreage.
Professor DeLoach demonstrated
the wisdom of using practical meth
odB In the profitable prc duction OF
cotton. He expressed the belief that
tne country was today entering upon
d real cotton era and tracing the rec
Ords 10. far as Glynn county is con-
ecrned IA far back a. 1908 and up 10
the civil war he showed that the best
product OF sea island Gotten was pro-
duced AT both st. Simons Island at
interior points OF the county as far
back as the line that divides the long
and short staple. II cotton was pro-
ductiye In those days and crops yield
ed dividends then certainly In this ad-
ynnced age II could te-made TO do the
same thing In larger ratio Of yield and
OF return.
Coming down to the actual advice
TO the people Of this section, Profes-
sor DcL,oach pointed out the follow
ing general conditions that ought to
obtain that ought 10 produce the best
Kind VI cotton and tie most OF II
ia planting long staple cotton he