Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31
POTATO GROWERS
Of STATE ORGANIZE

John Bostwick, Of Bostwick, Ga, one
of the best known farmers in the
state, was elected president with a
full corps Of officers, at an enthu.
siastic meeting Of large number OF
Georgia sweet potato growers at the
Ansley hotel Friday.
The association was formed to
bring the sweet potato to the fore
front as money crop in Georgia,
according to Mr.. Bostwick. At the
meeting Friday thirty-one Georgia
counties signified their willingness
to join, and a director was elected
from each of them. Approximately
5000 farmers are included in this
area, according to Mr.. Bostwick, and
all will be asked to join the associa-
tion,. which will be a cooperative
producing, grading, curing, packing
and marketing corporation.
Besides Mr.. BostWick, the other
officers elected Friday were e. M.
Williams, of Monroe, Walton county,
vice president, and III. c. Eckles, of
Bostwick, Ga, secretary and treas
urer. TIE executive committee Is
as follows: Mr.. Bostwick. T. j.
Swami, Newton county; T. j. Chas-
tain, Fulton; w. M. Morris, Douglas
county; w. w. Driskell, Hancock
county; B. T. Hancock. Clayton
county, and Mr.. Eckles.
One representative from each
county in the association was elect
ed to the board Of directors, as fol-
lows:
T. P. Peacock, Morgan; E. M. Will.
liams, Walton; E. j. Crawley, Geo.
nee; F. P. Stubs, Putnam; w. w.
Drexewell. Hancock; Claude Tuck,
Clarke; j. w. Phillips, Jasper; j. F.
Swami, Newton; Thurston Crawford,
Green; j. H, Carmichael. Bulloch;
C. D. Redwine, Fayette; Paul Tur-
ner, Henry; c. r. Ware, Gwinnett;
A. Whitaker, Rockdale; B. S. Will
bingham, Monroe; F, G. Chastain,
Fulton; w. B. Carhart. Chattahoo-,
chez; J. w. H. Binford, Carroll; e.
N. Camp, Coweta; Hawkins and Mil
ner company, Lamar; Miss Anne
Robinson, MeriWether; A. c. Hobbs,
Harris; Hez Land, Chattooga; Henry
Mattox, cambridge; H. B.. Carpenter,
Cobb; B. F. Hancock, Clayton; J. w.
Sanderson, Barrow; r. Banks, Hall;
J. A. Beasley, Toliver; r. c. Neeley.
Burge; Morgan and w. M. Morris,
Douglas.
DUSGWICh . tAuuI6SS
AS other Georgia counties join the
association they will be given repre-.
sentation on the board of directors.
The feature of the morning sessiNn
was the address of Mr.. BostYick, in
Whic he reviewed the cotton situa<
ton for the last few years, going
exhaustiVely into the low prices for
cotton, the high cost of production,
the vast injury done by the boil
Weevil and the over-production,
which, he said, were the principal
causes of the present financial de-
preston.
I'VE have raised all the cotton we
could for the last fifty years." he
said. I'VE have raised so much cot
ton that it has never been a profit.
able business except for a few years
during the war period when prices
We're abnormally high. From 1870
to 1910 we raised one bale to three
acres and sold the bale for $40, max
ing our gross income per acre 1888,
out or which we TT. ed to pay for fer
tlllZerS, groceries, clothing, mule
feed, taxes and all other expenses.
The fact is we raised enough cotton
to clothe the world and received
from it scarcely enough to keep body
and soul together,
Were we wise or foolish? If we
| had take the advice of thinking
people, rotated our crops, fed cattle
| and put the manure on our lands
| cotton ould have always brought a
| good price and our lands would have
been rich. But no argument or DOW
er could stop us from raising cot
ton to the exclusion of ever
| else until God, in His wisdom, sent
,ollllons OF peculiar looking insects
called boil weevils to teach us a
good, valuable and necessary lesson
which would change or system of
FARMING from all-cotton to diversifi-
| cation
From cotton he got off on the
| sweet potato which he said was not
only sweet and palatable food, but
would also yield from 100 to 200
bushels per acie on poor lands.
lie pointed out that the Irish DO
| tato is the principal crop in Maine
and stated that Maine profited i'm
'mensely from it's production. He
stated that he had been told that
| sweet potato production in Georgia,
II pushed. and encouraged properly,
W ala be even more profitable than
| the Irish potato crop of Maine or the
| fruit crop Of California.
Association Organized
! ME-. Bostwick then outlined the
| sweet Potato Growers Association
telling the producers that similar
associations had already been or.
canned IN South Carolina, Alabama
ana other southern states, and that
they have been of tremendous value
To the producer in many ways.
| Ills proposal for the organization
OF Georgia association was en-.
Enthusiastically received and the dele.
| gates immediately proceeded with
the organization details.
| other speakers at the morning
session We're E. E. Dallis, of the
| Johnson-Datlis company, and Frank
reynolds, assistant manager of the
AhsIey hotel, both of whom spoke
enthusiastically for the new associa-
| ton.
The Friday afternoon session was
gwen over to a meeting of the ex-
| ecutlVe committee, at which If was
decided that a charter for the asso.
citation should be immediately. draft
ed by Clifford Walker, of Monroe.
Ga, elected attorney for the organi-
| Zation.
NO announcement was made con.
corning the actual working plans OF
the new association or the require
ments for membership, it benz
stated that any such announcements
would be made following a second
meeting of the executive committee
Ca, on February 10, at which time
such details will be disposed of.
The association gave rising vote
Oh thanks to Mr.. Reynolds for the
use OF the Ansley hotel roof garden
as meeting place, and also gave a
similar vote to the press of Georgia
Tor ITS support in the new move
| mcnt.
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