The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-11-03

was selected as chairman and
Mr.. Cunningham as secretary. All
were present except Mr.. Hamar.
The opinions Of every member
were fully expressed and all were
agreed on the essential eatures of
the programme as outlir ID below. A
subcommittee was appointed to
draft the programme, which commit
tee met on October 5, all present ex-
cept two, and the article below is
the result of the considerations of
this subcommittee, which meets
with the approval of the majority of
the committee, and in it's essential
features with the approval of the
whole committee. The programme
was submitted to the extension de-
partment of Clemson college, which
also approves of it.
The march of the boil Weevil
across the cotton belt has been ac-
companied by panic and demoraliza-
ton. Farmers, bankers and mer-
chants frightened by one or two
years OF heavy losses, have in many
cases, curtailed operations and cred
it's to the point where farming was
stiled and labor was forced to leave
the country to prevent starvation.
There are signs that a similar panic
may occur in parts of this state In
less means are taken to reassure the
people and point out safe course for
agricultural Operations under boil
weevil conditions. To this end a
group of practical farmers and busi-
ness men in cooperation with the ex-
tension bureau have studied the Sit
uation in the light of their own ex-
perience and that of other states and
the accumulated experimental re-
suits of governmental agencies and
beg to present the following sugges-
tions~ and programme as one" which
will meet the situation, preventing
decentralization and enabling our
farming and business interests to con-
tinue profitable operations.
1t is especially important to pre-
vent our people from stampeding
into new and untried fields of agri-
culture in which they will fail
for lack of information and expert
'ence. Promising new crops should Of
course be tested and where proved
successful should be increased as rap
idly as the people gain experience but
not faster.
The problem is not so much as to
what to do as it is how to reassure
the people and get the information Of
how to proceed to every farmer, rent
er and and sharecropper in the state.
This must be done if it is done at all
by the larger farmers, merchants,
bankers and professional men who
should make it their business to reach
the isolated farmers and tenants and
discuss with them the programme of
operations under boil weevil con-
ditions. The greatest responsibility
rests upon the landowners. If they
are going to continue to own their
lands they will be obliged to see to it
that those who farm them have cor
rect information and closest super
vision, for the average farm tenant
must have sympathetic correct in
struction and active supervision until
he thoroughly learns the new meth
ods of operation.
A few broad principles Of opera
ton for the whole state may be sug-
gested:
First. Destroy Immediately all
cotton. stalks as soon as the crop is
gathered. This will prevent the
matching of millions of new weevils
during October. The old weeVils do
not hibernate until cold weather and
the destruction of their food supply
will cause them to die before frost.
The carrying out of this suggestion at
once is imperative and every effort
should be made to induce every farm
er in the state to do this work at
once, for, if only few do it, it will
have little effect in reducing next
years weevil supply.
Second. During the fall and win