Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-07
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AND WAREHOUS|NG
DISCUSSED At MEET
Secretary Of Agriculture
Wallace and G S, MeIoy
Deliver Addresses on Prob
lens F acing Cotton Planter

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 6.-The
Southern Cotton Congress, in ses.
sion here, which devoted almost all
it's time Monday to discussion of
boil weeviI and crop pest control.
Tuesday turned to other branches OF
the industry, and discussed market
ing and warehousing problems.
After hearing the address of
Henry c. Wallace, secretary of agri-
culture, in which he outlined the
work which the department of agri-
culture is doing for the cotton
growers of the south, and plans for
extension of this work, to include
research in marketing and ware
housing methods, the delegates were
taken to the terminal warehouses
here, why're they were shown by ex-
perts the proper and improper
forms of baling, and different phases
of weather damage to baled cotton.
G. S. Meloy, specialist in cotton
marketing of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, spoke at
length regarding needed state legis-
lation in the southern states, in or
der to promote proper cooperation
of the cotton interests with the agri.
culture department, in the market
ing and warehousing of cotton.
Cotton Commission
A special committee named to con-
slider the suggestions for the forn1a-
ton of a permanent governmental
cotton commission. offered yester-
day by A w. Mclean, of North
Carolina, is made a favorable report
on the plan.
The act providing for q perma-
nent commission, as proposed by
Mr.. Mclean, should, by it's terms,
he declared, confine the action of
the commission ito matters Of COM
mon interest, and about which there
shall be no conflict of interest," and
should provide, he declared, that all
actions of such commission should
be recommendatory only unless
and until the various states con-
cerned, shall. by legislative act, give
affirmative sanction to the measures
proposed by the commission, and
Of III, ho
same effective"
In his address, Mr.. Mclean said
that the most pressing and urgent
question now facing the cotton in
dustry in the south is the control
and eradication of insect pests.
Estimating the total damage to
the crop from the weevil in recent
years at several billions of dollars.
Mr., Mclean said:
'It would seem that unless some
more intensive and extensive meas
ures are employed, the boil weevil,
aided by other pests, may eventual
ly destroy the great cotton industry
of the United States, thereby en-
failing incalculable damage, not only
to this country, but to the world
at large. If the damage caused by
the boil weevil continues to in
crease, as it has in the past two
years, the time may come when
America will produce not exceeding
seven to eight million bales per
annum, upon an average"
Weevil National Problem
"On account Of the very char
acter Of the conditions surround
ing the problem, the matter of in
sect pest control, particularly as it
| involves the boil weevil, must not
| be considered. from mere local or
community standpoint, nor from a
sectional standpoint" Mr.. Mclean
| continued. "1t is great problem
| Of both national and international
concern, which cannot be solved
without the combined effort and re.
sources of our federal government,
the governments of the cotton
growing states, as well as the brains
and resources of the planters and
business men of the whole nation. y
Mr.. Mclean advocated a cam
paign of publicity and education
Sin order that the best methods OF
solving the insect pest problem
may be carried directly to the door
Of every planter in the south"
R. E. Mcdonald, state entomol
ogist of Texas, outlined legislation
already enacted in that. state fol-
the control Of the boil weevil, and
for quarantining against the pink
boil worm. Similar legislation in
other states was recommended by
the speaker, as he said that quar-
antine measures which had been