Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

lana, Texas and Mississippi unless
they can find II in some particular
community where conditions are eN-
actly similar Texas is so entirely DIFF
ferent as to be of scarcely any value
The weevil vii! never be an aHlictiou
in Texas that it will be in Georgia
In Louisiana the weevil is as bad as
he will ever be in Georgia. perhaps a
little worse. on account of the ranker
cotton vegetation and faVora BILE win
ter quarters for the wesvil i'm Spanish
moss but the lands Of Louisiana are
so much more fertile, the expense OF
fertilizer MILL that the growers Of cot
ton can get from three quarters Of a
bale to a bale an acre with the Weeyil
present provided the insect is prop
erlv opposed Georgia lands, as an
average, are not so fertile and pro-
ductive, and what with the cost Of
fertilizer and perhaps the higher cost
of lighting the weevil. the cotton
saved may prove short Of paying eX-
penses.
Loss in Some States.
Unquestionably there is cotton n
Mississippi and Alabama which would
not more than pay for its growing
were the weevil not present. The eX-
pense of fighting the weevil has been
added and the cotton is loss The
tenants who have grown it are max
ing living working by wage for saw
mills or for farmers who have DIVERSE
fled crops.
with ali the enlightenment that can
be received from States that have
faced ano contested the boil weeyil
problem, ii remains for each com
munity to meet its own phase of the
problem. How to fight the weevil
can be learned from the outside, but
whether it will pay to. continue TO
grow cotton has to be determined b.
experience.
While the last word about how 70
fight the boil weeYil may not have vet
been said, the merchant and banker
would do well to be conservative and
recommend only such methods rs
have been thoroughly tried by farm
ers and found the most useful.
Every drummer. business man. etc.
will be ready on every occasion to al
vance a theory Some may claim that
they know it has worked. While there
can be no harm done in experiment
ing, provided. wel-knQWn methods are
continued. il rs dangerous 10 RELY
upon any other than the most. APP
proved way. The Federal farm dem
onstration work hFs recommended tho
plan which farmers say is practical
and Which plan they almost univtr-
sally adopt. The farm demonstrt-
ton agents of Western Georgia are
prepared, to tell the farmers what this
plan is and how it must be applied.
Bankers Should Get Busy.
1t necessarily follows that If he
bankers and farmers take the stani
that they will finance only "A limited
amount Of cotton they viii be asked
what crops they viii finance. Are The
bankers and merchants prepared 70
answer the question: Local condi-
tons will make different answers
Marketing facilities viii cut some iig-
ure. Unless the banker and merchant
have worked out the problem. now j..
the time to get ready. They should
make no mistakes. The information
on which they should base their 9d
vice should be from the best possible
source. The information may not be
available in their county. As raLle
there are only few men who have
studied agriculture its broadegt ap-
pllcatIon, who know soils; trpp
adapta bilitv, marketing possibilities
that can-give intelligent answers. t..
local bankers and merchants, Ayou1d
DO well to get in touch with heads us
agricultural colleges and get the ben
EFT Of the information which .tn,y
can give.
Talk Rotation Of Crops.
Whatever new crops the bankers
and merchants determine to advise il
should be remembered that best re
suits will not be obtained unless there
is a rotation of crops, included ~
which rotation there should be ii.
legume grown al least once every
three years. 1t must be borne in nina
too, that lands which have been
cropped with cotton for years are de-
ficient in organic or vegetable mat
ter, and that all the stalks, stuobsg
grass or green crops that can be
plOwed under should be incorporates
into the soil. The gathering OF d.
b-is from the land and burning ii is
robbing the land Of what it most
needs
When answering what new crop
must De grown, bear in mind that
permanently successful agricuitu cure
ard animal husbandry go togetnes
No farmers note is so good as the
farmers whose lands feed cattle.
sheep, hogs. and WHOSE WORT stock
is bred on the farm