The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17
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Greenwnod Index-Journal, 9th.

10 farming under the boil WeeVli con-
ditions as other counties IN TINS sta'e
have done, declared Henry S. J0hn-
SON district demonstration agent
who was in Greenwood Wednesday
He pointed out AIIendale county as
the leader in this reconstructed agf1-
cn)+Dra Other crops can be grown
in Greenwood along with the cotton
that viii continue to be raised, thous"
not in as large quantities as formerly
he said Not only can other crops DC
raised but q market can be found nc
declared. ~.
Johnson as a good example Of how
farmers had shown the intelligence 10
odipst themselves to new conditions,
While some of the products which Al
lendale grows at profit may not oe
grown so proftably here, the genera
scheme of readjustment is the SAINT
Tho following article, written oy wal
ter e. Duncan, describes what mas
been done in Allendale:
The youngest and the smallest
county in the state, forging aheao 70
meet and cope with the changed con-
ditions in South Carolina agriculture
takes first place among the boil Wee
vii infested counties by reason OF the
adjusted program Allendale farmers
have put into force and effect "nefe-
by they prosper in spite Of the pest
that makes the growing Of cotton pre-
carious.
Boil Weevh Defeated
n other words, Allendale farmers
have met the boil weevil on his own
terms, and defeated him.
Not yet are these progressive farm
Ell, q: Allendale county ready TO
erect in the public square of their
county seat a monument to the boil
weevil. as did the people Of a certain
town in Alabama in gratitude for
their emancipation from an all-cotton
nrogram. But brought face to face
with the economic necessity of turn
ing away from cotton as their crop OF
main dependence, as in the past, Al
?en6ale farmers have demonstrated to
he rest of the state, that they can
live and prosper, as tillers Of the SOIL
producing and selling other crops be-
sides the cotton they were reared to
regard as the one and only money
crop in South Carolina,
They have met the boil weevll on
his own terms and defeated INN at
his own game, not by sticking stuo-
5ornly to cotton and endeavorlng TO
grow the feecy staple in spite OF the
swarnling pest, but through following
the more sensible method of chang
inc their agricultural program. II
the coming of the weevil has MADE
cotton culture too venturesome an en-
4erprise to be risked by the farmer
who does not not care to gamble
AGAINST overwhelming odds and Ger
tain disaster. what more logical than
the substitution, in soil that will
produce anything, CT various ether
crops that the boil weevil cannot de-
stroy? The one problem arising IS
that Of turning these other crops into
money. This problem Allendale has
gone far toward solving. At least
have Allendale farmers, through the
close cooperation and the enterprise
and progressiveness demanded of the
times, found a money market for such
products as they have grown this year
and last on the acres heretofore
planted to cotton.
Formerly Cotton County
Before the coming Of the weevil the
section of country now comprised IN
-AitG0U9iS COUuIS--IllS NONAASy N>A-'S
only few years old and formed af-
ter the cotton pest invaded this state
produced around $4,000 bales of
cotton year. This year only about
1000 bales were grown in the county.
As a striking Illustration of the raw
ages of the cotton pest, on one planta-
ton in the lower part Of the county
live 33 negro families. Formerly and
normally these families would pros
duce from 125 to $50 bales a year.
This year it took all of the lint cotton
the thirty-three families picked to
make one bale. Obviously, to ward
off starvation, the change from cot
ton was not only wise, but necessary.
Confronted with these conditions,
the farmers of AHendale county, in
stead of contenting themselves with
,bemoaning their fate or giving up the
ghost, set about first to provide for