Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-26
From Other Viewpoints
Loss The STRIPPING stone to Gain.
~ DN. NEWELL. DWIGHT HILLS.

IT.; ,tra ms sia,%nin, IS found in trade
m s IN" men n a S II 5a, Ssms rs 'I "a me
jn'' irS 70 huih m9nnm1nt IN the rupie square
weeYi The amount that they are after Is S.
"op' The history ot this event is most strik-
rnde rom Mexico rio oythern o? Ts8a se rho rho
h ,, Weeyii cuts lis "ay into the cotton pods.
ne Agricultural Department in Washington
or rra rs praS'' Ee he ns seo" With
tried tried. E,ch experiment failed The boil weev
into Alabama. Farmers we're threatened with
S %a"G p f"nks beam ahmed Cotton
m ne tn'ure . Heih o:i% l'ovtrty ana failure for
'%..'1 IN h ,,a "a m m, 70 The very, in
insect !e looted Ipon as :. Find Of provldenci.i
friend 1t seems that the everlasting. round OF
Their SOL. What III. land needed was a rota-
ton o. crops, In DESPAIR over their cotton, the
the made more money GU, Of peanuts than they
peanuts until today III Aabama they have L.
thought ~ peanuts as something to bc roasted
and "ai"n "hcn the farmer went to town, but
foods raised III the South, for fattcning the
.5 and tbs once en,sed pf n Is, ,r"m me
ne me c"dion seq OIL in public iavor The
ranks next 10 alfalfa. The money rewards arc
vast 'hat farmers who. in a good cot
ton year. could not pay the interest their
mortgage 1nd their iax"s. and their Fertilizers
ha We Uncovered tina, the Hand with pea
nuts has enabled them 20 pay ;hc mortgage it
self. ana shown them the path to Industrial
wealth. What seemed. therefore. the uttermost
NJ mlaf1rtUhc. has proved 10 be good fortune
aud atapptng stone 10 prosperity.
other farmers have turned from cotton to the
iaIsinS Of cat tic. tnaulc to support their fami-
lies "iih COTTON. tines" men turned their eyes
TO the cuioVcr forest lands The saw mill
worked LA voc upnn the southern States. II left
millions .; acr"5 % stump land. But tho boil
""cvii compelled tho farmer TO think. What
not plant ihat with peanuts. SOW it to al
falfp. and pui some cattle on the stump land"
one day, tAc southern ftrm"r Weakened up to
md iiat tha gentle winter climate the cattle
and sheen did not u'cd shelter. la the North
durlup December, January. February and March,
motion TO the nerds ana hockY In the South.
tarfc ~ .uoY bitter cold. piercing
H.nds. t~'niy degrees below zero her
5Dsr. 10 The ACCOMPLISHMENT Of tic farmer who
mad confined himself TO the raising Of colt on.
h,n lands began 10 recover lie had fertilizers
HIS field. The nigh prices for meat and
mutton brought him IN q large GhnGb, lie wqk
ton ii hin cropY aud the increase in the herds
and HDGha had null iplicd his chances at wea lth
and PROSPERITY ans tho result is that many,
m ny CountIog Hear tho Gulf of Mexico are being
rccr.nicd.f I'll" enemy. boil wccvl has been 81
friend. Ihuy centuries ago, al earthquake il,
Drsscr ruined liti!G city, but latnr II waA
found ibst when the earthquake had torn tho
every 1".iar destroyed the earthquake brought
tine yillngrrt so IN property. Little wonder
| therefore. ihat the Grseka erected column
I COMMUNICATING that narth1uskc and that the
propi" ot Alabama ara building monument In
hon1r ~ their sncent enrmy. the poll weeVi'.