The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-03
Boil WeeviI
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Preparedness
Campaign
State Is Being Stirred AS No Other
State Has And Is Better Prepared
Than Any Other That The WeevIl
Has lnvaded--Farmers Who Have
Raised Cotton. Successfully la Boil
Weevil Territory Helping: t

I Has lnvaded--Farmers Who Rave
L Raised Cotton Successfully la Boil
Weevil Territory HeIpins. ,
Athens, Ga.-Georgia is being stir
red from one end to the other and
through and through. by campaigns
of preparedness for the boil weeVir
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-
perts 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 wom-
EN-, all the club work represented by
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 weevi has appeared or where it
is about to appear and do its serious
damage to the cotton crop, special
campaigns have been conducted and
od IN holm tho
farmers who have not already done
so. make their sudden changes in agri-
cultural activities.
County Agent a Factor
In these campaigns the object has
been to get out into the rural neigh
borhoods where the farmers live. The
county agents have been holding field
)r group meetings of farmers in fields
where crops and farm practices of
lew sort are being demonstrated. The
DOLL weevil meetings have been held
It school houses in the country in
preference to county seats or towns.
Real Farmers Speakers
To inspire all the confidence posi-
Die among farmers who are not famil-
ar with the real service of college eX-
lerts, farmers have been obtained from
louisiana and Mississippi to tell how
hey have made success growing
cotton under boil weevil conditions.
Along with these are experts who
laye Just as definite and practical
knowledge on various crops that will
srow in place of cotton in Georgia,
md about livestock problems of Geor-
sa.
tu il. Travelling Schools
Week long schools are held in vari-
)us parts of the state where farmers
urn students again and attend school
or a week to learn more about all
;inds of farming Where such schools
ave been held there is always the
,reatest demand for them again. They
ave been the means of creating new
interest. outlook and optimism on the
art of farmers.
Moving Picture Show
The College of Agriculture has been
operating a splendid moving picture
4 outfit over all parts of Georgia, taking
he show out to the school houses i'll
he country and there putting on the
screen az clear picture as can be
zen in any city. The reels tell OF
better farming They have been
,hown free and have been attended
" great many thousand people,
,ome of whom have thus been provid-
ID their first view of the movies"
Boil Weevi Preparedness Clubs
Boil weevil preparedness clubs have
)een formed. Certificates of member
,hfp that embrace an agreement to
10 certain things in varying farm
PRACTICES and to fight the weevil They
orm the basis of cooperation neces-
,ary to successfully hold the weevil
n check in a neighborhood. Members
f this club are provided buttons as an
Insignia of their agreement to do their
luty.
Business Men Campaign
Believing it important that bankers |
md business men should have the best |
Information possible in readJustlng |
heir relations to the farmer so that |
he farmer should suffer the least, the |
College of Agriculture has conducted |
| campaign among business men, the |
principal speakers being bankers and |
farmers from boil weevil territory in |
louisiana, Mississippi, who have sue
eessfulIy met the issue in their re-
;pective territories.
Literature Distributed
Principally through the medium of |
he weekly press, the College of Agri- |
culture has been disseminating boil |
weeyil, and crop Divers fieation infol:
nation so effectively that very few |
farmers in the state have not been |
reached in this way Thus the week |
~ papers have become a very great
factor in the enterprise.
Posters have been issued, special |
circulars, bulletins of various kinds, !
all of which have been eagerly snatch |
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