Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-11-24
EVERYBODY READ THIS LETTER
WOODRUFF MANUFACTURING co.
Winder, Ga


Winder, Ga.
November l. 1921.
Blalock Hdwe. Company,
Wadesboro, N. C..
am in receipt of your favor OF
the. 81 ult. and glad to give the infor-
nation asked for. Our county has
suffered about so per cent loss OF crop
this year. Very slight loss last year.
And il we have a warm winter and
a wet spring and summer there will
be 80 per cent loss In crops next year.
The writer has been through mid
die Georgia and It Is impossible to
tell of the awful conditions Of some
sections in Georgia. Middle Georgia
is one year ahead Of our section In
boil weevil trouble. They are having
the trouble this year that we are look
ing for next year.
Middle Georgia farmers and mer-
chants are broke. The merchants are
waiting to see what their creditors
will do with them. Those who have
not already bankrupted are waiting
for their creditors to make q move to
put them in.
AS you know we have a varied Line
of business. Our principal business
in Atlanta is selling saw mills. en-
gines and boilers. And our business
here is manufacturing harness, back
bands and cotton mops, therefore We
are up against any kind of customers.
20 per cent Of our merchants and
customers are already In bankruptcy,
another 20 per cent is offering settle
ment of 20 to 40 per cent on their
debts. The sawmill business Is the
only business making good in middle
Georgia, and in fact middle Georgia
people are living on the lumber busi-
ness. Farmers who own timber are
selling it to get money to pay for fer
tilizer and farm supplies. The ten
ants Of farms are getting jobs with
sawmill people. Merchants are SELL
ing no goods, can't pay for what they
have bought, and wont buy any goods
except certain amounts Of staple gro
ceries.
These farmers thought they could
make one more crop before the boil
weevil got them.
would suggest that you take your
party by Augusta. Ga. Take the Ga.
R. R. to Sparta and Millidgeville. then
take the Central Ga. to Eatonton.
Monticello and to Macon, and from
there to Savannah.
Through this section they are max
ing less than one bale Of cotton TO thr
plow. 1t is no usual thing to see
women begging bread on the street.
Last week saw negro man wor'
ing at the sawmill with pieces OF su-
tomobile castings tied on his feet for
shoes.
II We have an extremely cold win
ter and dry hot spring and summer
there will be some cotton made next
year, but with the reverse season our
county and your county will be in
the same condition that the section I
have referred to.
1t is the history Of the country from
Texas to Carolina that the farmers
will take one more chance on q cot
ton crop until they are ruined. TIL
second year and the third years are
usually the worse years. After two
or three years the farmers learn to
live without 80 much cotton.
Very little has been done to defeat
the progress of the boil weevil. All
the things that you see written will
help provide all the farmers, will use
these preventatives, and for while In
the spring people think they are
handling it, but II the spring and sum-
mer is cool and rainy there is moth
ing that heads him OF in his work OF
destruction, and means bankruptcy
and ruin for a large per cent Of far
mers and merchants.
Mr.. A. D. Robertson, W1nder, Ga. Is
the farm demonstration agent for this
county, and is a good safe man and
will be glad to give you any informa-
tion Of assistance that he can.
Yours truly,
G. W. WOODRUFF.