Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-05
S. CAROLINIANS
COMING TO SEE
WEEVILS' WORK
Auto Tourists to Reach
Sumter County Next
Thursday

Americas and Sumtercounty are to
be visited by a boil Weevil Tour''
next Thursday about noon. The
tourists, travelling by auto, are COM
ing from Saludas S. c., on fve-day
trip through the boil weevil section
OF Georgia. 1t is their purpose, it is
understood, Ito SEE for themselves
what the boil weevil has done in these
sections and what has been done to
combat the pest, in order to be ready
for his expected coming there. The
tour will be started Monday morning.
The tourists will be headed by j.
M. Eleazer, county agent of Saluda
county, and G. V. Cunningham, as
sistant director of extension work of
Georgia. The schedule for the trip
is announced in the following bulle-
tin by Agent Eleazer to Saluda coun-
ty farmers in arranging for the trip !:
The Schedule.
Leave Saluda promptly at a.
m. Monday, September 6, and meet at
the postoffice square in Augusta at
$3.50 O'Clock. Leave Augusta prompt
ly at o'clock and go by the way
OF Waynesboro, Louisville, Wrights-
vile, and spend the night at Dublin.
Second day (Tuesday) - Haw-
kinsville, Vienna, Cordele, and spend
the night at Tiftop.
Third day Wednesday, )-Moul-
trie, Thomasville, Pelham, Camilla,
and spend the night aG Albany.
Fourth day Thursday = Ameri-
Gus, Fort Valley, and spent the night
at Macon.
Fifth day Milledge-
vile, Thompson, and back to Au-
gusta.
The course of this trip has been
outlined by tn Georgia extension
service and they have the following to
say in regard to it:x'This will
take you through the boil weevil sec
tions of Georgia from where it has
just begun its devastation and on
into the territory where it has been
for several years, giving glimpse
of the changes brought about by the
effect of the weeVil and the indus
tries that have gone up as a result.
This will include the diversification
of crops, packing houses, peanuts,
hogs, cattle, pastures, fruit growing,
etc.
To Meet Party.
George o. Marshall, county agent
of Sumter county, has been inform
ed of tfS coming of the tourists and
he hopes to organize party f
Sumter county men to go by auto to
the county line to greet them. on
their way here from Albany and de-
tour them through the l7th district
to Plains, which will take them
through some of Sumter county's
best cotton fields, thence to Anne i
Gus, from which point they will pro-
ceed northward to Fort Valley. He
has received the following letter from
Mr.. Eleazer:
"Saluda, S. c., Sept. l. County
Agent, Americus, Ga. Dear Sir
Your assistant state agent, Mr.. Cum
ningham, a party of Saluda county
farmers and business men, and | will
pay your town visit about noon on
Thursday, September 9, while on a
tour through the boil weevil sections
of Georgia.
"At this time we will be glad to
meet you and if there is anything in
the boil weevil line of special inter-
est in or around that place we will
be glad if you will direct US to it.
We leave from there for Fort Val
ley and probably there are some
things of interest we might see on
the road out towards that place.
Yours very truly,
81. NJ. ELEAZER, County Agent. "