Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-11-26


year he shipped for the farmers OF
around Nashville 80 car sof hogs and
81 cars of peanuts. He said the best
yields of peanuts are near ton pei
acre of peanuts and a ton of hay,
Iae nuts he sells for 5000 per ton
s4d the hay for $40 and S25 per ton.
Cor those farmers who are thinking
OF planting peanuts this coming sea-
son we suggest that they write Mr..
A. W. Gaskin, Nashville, Ga, for
sahd and for valuable suggestions
that he is willing to give from his
experiences. The seed should be OBJ
tained at once, as they are going to
be scarce later on Mr.. Gaskin re-
ported the cotton condition of his
town as follows: The normal cotton
market is near 1000 bales; this year
is was 1900. One farmer told us that
he made 400 pounds of seed cotton
to eight acres.
3 In Valdosta we visited the county
agricultural agent and the Official IN
charge of Che Valdosta cotton exp
ment station. Valdosta was once
Of the greatest long staple cotton
markets in the world, but this indus
Try has been almost ruined, so we
We're told by the county agricultural
agent. Lownes county, of which Val
dosta is the county seat, used to grow
$4,000 bales of long staple. Now she
grows less than 500. Mr.. Gaddis, of
the experiment station, will not rec
ommend the growing of long staple
cotton. He says that with normal sea-
sons they can grow from one-half to
of a short staple crop.
Sse recommends the following vari-
for weevil conditions and places
fsA procuring seed: For witty lands; /;
East place, Council Toole, bred by
n. B. Council, Americas, Ga, thirty
- sSs, perg cent. lint, medium boil, one
inch staple, easily picked; Second
place, Lewis No. 63, bred by Mr..
Council also, lint, staple, boil and
picking qualities about the same as
Council Toole. For land without wilt,
first place, tither of Half-and-Half,
(bred by DR.. Marcus Mashburn,
Cumming, Ca, who is the son-in-law
of the late Mr.. Summerhour, the
originator) forty-five per cent lint,
seven-eighths inch staple, boil, small
and pointed, or Simpkin's, bred by
w. S. Simpkins of Raleigh, N. c.,
thirty-six percent lint, seven-eights
inch staple, boil, small and pointed,
not so easily picked; second place to
Wannamaker's Cleveland for the
Model Seed Farm, st. Matthews, S.
c., Mr.. Gaddis spoke of Hastings
Bank Account, but not so favorable
of the King cotton. Mr.. Gaddis says
that any small boil cotton is prefer
red over the big boil, one reason is
that it has more bolls and that the
weevil will not be able to puncture
as large per cent of small bolls as of
the large bolls.
We have tried to give the farming
facts as we saw them. We met and
talked with very few discouraged
farmers, and those that were proved
to be the less intelligent ones. Most
of them said they would continue tc
make cotton, but realized that il
would take more labor to do so anc
that it was not safe to depend on cot.
ton alone. Some said that the weevi
was a blessing to the people, yet
others said they could never find 6
substitute for cotton that would suit
everyone as cotton did.
We were struck with the way there
is cooperation between the town anc
country. Every town or city has its
chamber of commerce, usually with 6
paid secretary to do work in connec
tion with the county agricultural
agent. Every county has it's yearly
agricultural fair. The most progress
sive of the places we passed through
is the little town of Adel, town
twenty-three years old and with
$500 people. 1t is the county seat Of
Cook County, the baby county o1
Georgia. This town is we'll fixed with
organized forces to combat the wee
vii. The chamber of commerce of thi:
town is the hardest working institu
tion we visited.
We were disappointed with the