The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-20

ana found the weevil had begun to
40 Its work. He told the cropper to
pioW 1t up and put in corn and beans.
winch the latter was loath to do, and
was permitted to keep ten of the so
acres on condition that he would
Keep the weevils picked off. He was
given bottles in which to put the Wee
Wis and sacks for the shed squares.
AT the first picking six pint bottles
OF weevils and about a peck of
squares were secured. The next
week about four times as many were
picked, and after the tenant and his
crowd had worked about a day on
the third picking he sent for the land
lord and asked to be allowed to pillow
up the 10 acres. No cotton has been
planted on that farm since. He says
10 acres of chufas will fatten rs
hogs.
The Peanut in All Its Glory.
The Dawsonians next visited En-
terpriSe, Ala, perhaps the largest
peanut center in the South.
Here we found but little besides
peanuts, velvet beans and corn are
grown" said Mr.. Saville. We saw
here at one mill stock of 10000
tons of peanuts valued at $4,000,
and that was not near all the peanuts
IN the town, to say nothing of vel
vet beans. Everybody was buying
them, especially the merchants, and
every old cotton seed house we saw
along the road was filled with either
corn, beans or peanuts. Cotton stalks
looked like wild coffee weeds. We
did not see but one small field in
ride of so miles that could have
yielded over 200 pounds of seed cot
ton per acre. And that was ideal
cotton land with no stumps and far
from woods, streams or bitches.
Long Since Forgot Weevil.
"In Andalusia everybody was too
busy loading beans and corn to talk
long at a time. Everything seemed
to indicate they had forgotten that
the weevil had invaded their land.
When asked about the pest they smil-
ed smile which indicated that ours
was yet to come. Both here and at
Enterprise prosperity was in evil
| dence on every hand.
"At Dothan, Ala, we were told
that little cotton was made this year,
and peanuts and beans not having
been planted as a cash crop condi-
| lions were not what they would have
been had they quit cotton sooner.
! From there to Leary, Ga, but little
cotton seems to have been made.
Cotton Cannot Be Raised.
Mr.. Saville is firmly convinced that
it will be folly to attempt to raise
cotton where the weevil has gotten
a hold, and says the only salvation
is for the acreage to be materially
reduced.
From what I saw on this trip"
he said. 81 am firmly convinced cot
ton cannot be grown under weevil
conditions on any great acreage, pos
sibly five acres per pillow, and then
on land with no stumps and far from
woods, branches and bitches.
81 regard five acres in cotton, fiji
teen in North Carolina peanuts, fiji
teen in corn and beans and five in
oats a well-proportioned crop for the
Southwest Georgia farmer. The Car
DINA peanut is easily harvested with
the proper pillow, which we were
shown, and makes double the yield
of the white Spanish. The Spanish
selling for only IS ton more makes
the Carolina the favorite for mar
keting."
Mr.. Saville closed the interview
with the parting edmonton to the
farmers to plant peanuts, then all the
corn and beans they can work, and
then plant more peanuts.