The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1911-02-02

the more or less depleted lands of
Mississippi, attracted by the rich
lands of Louisiana. "They are
bone of our bone and flesh of our
fesh." If they have more nervous
energy than you have it is because
stern necessity reused them quick
er. If their success under condI-
tions very similar to your own will
not rouse your dormant faculties
and spur you on to greater effort,
nothing l can say will do it.
Following are some names and
places with the yields they made,
viz:
T. B. Gilbert, r., Wisner, La,
772 bales, 1000 acres.
IN. Williams, Wipnsboro, La,
40 bales, SO acres.
]. w. Lilies, Fit. Necessita, La,
9 bales, 9 acres.
E. Mason, Mason, La. IT'S
bales, 22o acres.
M. P. Daily, Extension, La,
100 bales, I25 acres.
G. L. Robinson, Winnsboro,
La, 81 bales, 3 acres.
L. N. Calhoun, Jr., Gilbert, La,
80 bales, 80 acres.
w. P. Butler, Chase, La, 5A
bales, 7 acres.
E. N. Hicks, Wisner, La, 245
bales, 2o5 acres.
]. w. Grifing, Gilbert, La.y125
bales, $50 acres.
w. N. Wilmington, Gilbert,
La, 10 bales, II acres.
T. H. Heard, Gilbert, La, 7
bales, 7 acres.
Zeb York, Peck, La, 81 bales,
rs acres.
| could give the names of many
others, but this ought to be sufl-
cient. In some of these, Instances
l saw the gin records, and ] went
into some of the fields where the
stalks are still standing, because
they made SO much cotton they
had not finished picking when the
frost killed the cotton. The gin
records and the appearance of the
old stalks confirm their statements
to me.
After a careful examination of
local conditions there as compared
with this section, I have formed an
opinion that it is not unfavorable to
US. They have fresher and richer
land, but it is not always well
drained. If the drainage is good,
it is easier to make a paying crop
of cotton on rich lands than on
poor land, just the same as before
the weevil came. We can offset
the greater richness of their soil by
the use of the proper fertilizer, and
by building up our lands with le-
guminous crops as we ought al
ways to have done. Our advantage
lies in our perfect drainage, and in
our ability to work the land sooner
after heavy rains.
But you do not have to go to
Louisiana to find men who made
profitable crops of cotton in 1910.
Here and there throughout my ter
ritory | haVs found men who made
one-half bale of cotton or more per
acre. C. R. Byrnes of Natchez
did it. VIM. Junkins of Fosters
Mound did it. ]. D. Frazier OF
Rodney did it. B. G. Humphreys
OF Port Gibson did it. There are
numbers of others. Was II by ac'
cident or the special interpositior
of providence that these men made
cotton in roIo7 Does not COLI
reason force me to conclude afte
these Investigations that we car
Egrow cotton this year3 Have W,
received such a paralyzing blow
THAT we can not trust the evidenc'
of our own senses7 Can we affor'
to throw away the chance to maxi
profitable crops that we know, am
depend entirely on other thing
that we are only learnlng7 Cal
we afford to stif1e the longing W
have for the feeling of cold cash i
our pockets, the result of hghtinl
for and obtaining a profitable GRO
of cotton7
H. GUY HATHORN,
Special Agent Farmers Coopera
Il
ative Demonstration Work.
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