Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-03
STATE IS STIRRED
by CAMPAIGN WITH.
BOIL WEEv|L FIGHTS.

ATHENS, Jan. Georgia is STIR
red from one end to the other and
through and through by campaigns
OF preparedness for the boil weevil.
Government experts who have been
following the weevil fight say that
Georgia is far better prepared for the
coming of the boil weevil than any
other state, by reason of the cam
paigns which have been conducted
with such success and by the several
years work Of county agents and ex-
lperts as directed from the College of
Agriculture and in which the federal
forces have been cooperating.
All the work which has been done
by county agents both men and WON
the corn clubs. canning clubs, poultry
clubs, pig clubs, four-crop clubs, calf
clubs, etc, all the work done by
travelling experts, and all the work Of
farmers schools and institutes has
been preparing the farmers of the
state for the boil weevil
In the territory of the state where
the weevil has appeared or where it
is about to appear and do its serious
damage to the cotton crop, special
campaigns have been conducted and
are still being conducted to help the
farmers who have not already done
so, make their sudden changes in agr-
cultural activities.
County Agent a Factor
In these campaigns the object has
i. been to get out into the rural neigh
borhoods where the farmers live. The
county agents have been holding field
or group meetings of farmers in fields
; where crops and farm practices of
new sort are being demonstrated. The
boil weevil meetings have been held
at school houses in the country in
preference to county seats or towns.
Real Farmers Speakers
To inspire all the confidence posi-
: BILE among farmers who are not famil-
lar with the real service Of college ex-
perts, farmers have been obtained from
Louisiana and Mississippi to tell how
they have made a success growing
cotton under boil weevil conditions.
Along with these are experts who
have just as definite and practical
: knowledge on various crops that will
grow in place Of cotton in Georgia,
and about livestock problems OF Geor-
gia.
, Travelling Schools
Week long schools are held in vari-
GUS parts of the state where farmers
: turn students again and attend school
for a week to learn more about all
kinds of farming. Where such schools
( have been held there is always the
. greatest demand for them again. They
have been the means of creating new
interest, outlook and optimism on the
i part Of farmers.
Moving Picture Show
The College of Agriculture has been
i operating a splendid moving picture
: outfit over all parts of Georgia, taking
the show out to the school houses in
the country and there putting on the
screen as clear picture as can be
seen in any city. The reels tell of
better farming. They have been
t shown free and have been attended
r by a great many thousand people,
r some of whom have thus been provid-
ed their first view of the movies"
Boil Weevl Preparedness Clubs
a Boil weevil preparedness clubs have
t been formed. Certificates of member
ship that embrace an agreement to
D do certain things in varying farm
practices and to fight the weevil. They
form the basis of cooperation neceS-
! sary to successfully hold the weevil
in check in neighborhood. Members
of this club are provided buttons as an
/ insignia of their agreement to do their
d duty.
/. Business Men Campaign
g Believing it important that bankers
and business men should have the best
information possible in readjusting
their relations to the farmer so that
the farmer should suffer the least the
College of Agriculture has conducted
:. campaign among business men, the
f principal speakers being bankers and
5 farmers from boil weevil territory in
Louisiana, Mississippi, who have sue
cessfully met the issue in their re-
spective territories.
Literature Distributed
Principally through the medium of
: the weekly press, the College of Agri-
culture has been disseminating boil
weevil, and crop diversifcation infor-
! nation so effectively that very few
{ farmers in the state have not been
reached in this way. Thus the week
ly papers have become a very great
factor in the enterprise.
Posters have been issued, special
J circulars, bulletins of various kinds,
all of which have been eagerly snatch
ed up by farmers. Though larger and
larger issues of such publications have
been made, it has been impossible to
supply the demand, the editions going
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