The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-12-07
MAY REFUSE LOANS
ON SINGLE CROPS
J. PHIL CAMPBELL THINKS THAT
THIS IS NECESSARY FOR
PROSPERITY.

That il is urgent for the continued
prosperity of Georgia that the farm
ers Of the state raise enough on their
own farms 70 support themselves, and
possibly 10 supply neighboring markets
with al fOcdstuns that can be raised
lccally, is the opinion Of j. Phil Camp
bell, state agent in charge Of the Farm
ers' Cooperative Union demonstration
work in Georgia, expressed in a bull
letin which is being distributed
throughout the farming section Of the
state. Mr.. Campbell links that II
necessary this should be enforced by
ne bankers OF the state by their re-
fusing 70 lend money to farmers who
insist On combining their crop to cot
ten
Refuse credit TO the farmers not
producing sufficient food crops for
farm consumption" says he Secure
/ q competent farm demonstrator in
each county at once, lend money to
farmers on ether crops than cotton
and establish markets in every small
town for grain, hay, live stock and
truck crops, and, these things being
done, the damages occurring from the
advent OF the boil wecyil will be min
1 fmizedr
Mr.. Campbell states further: THE
problem of checking the boil weevl
! invasion in Georgia rests not with the
| farmers of the state, but with the NOR
/ chant and banker These men are the
ones that hold the key to the situation
and they must use it or be caught in
/ the wreck An endorsement of this
statement is the utterance recently
made by Joseph A. McCord, vice pres
/ ident Of the Third National Bank OF
! Atlanta, who says: Here in Georgia
we must make ample preparations to
! fight the boll weeyil. Unless some
thing definite is done every retailer,
every banker and every wholesaler
viii suffer seriously. We are now
buying all OF our feed supply from the
i vest. We pay not only the tariff OF
a protected market for this feed, but
we pay the freight on it, hauled into
Georgia. Thus we buy our feed to
produce cotton which we must sell in
the markets of a free-trade country
England
How we have survived such com
mercial creed Is most puzaIing. Only
our unusual natural advantages have
saved us But we have gone the
unit even on these, and must now
change to program OF diversified
farming, and the production CT our
own feed supplies Else every retail
or bank credit VIII be doubtful
quantity
Il Having heard the advice of Mr..
Campbell, the business men of Atlanta
nave gotten together and as result
that city has the securing of her por-
ton of the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce annual $4,000 subscription fund
well under way During the past week
more than $4,000 in annual subscrip-
tons, or a total of $4,000 for a pc
riod of three years has been supscrib-
ed by the business men of the city,
and it is expected that Atlapta's allot
ment, $4,000, win be raised in the
course of the next ten days. Macon
Athens. Newman and Decatur have al
so sent In individual subscriptions
during the past week. The officials
OF the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
believe that it will be possible to Sc
cure at least 1900 indicidual subscrip
tons ranging from s. to $500 during
the next two months throughout the
state