The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-11-22
PLAN FOR CAMPAIGN
AGAINST BOIL WEEVlL
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longer fool proof crop. With the
present standard of living on the farms
in South Carolina the farmers may
not be able to hold their labor, lie said.
This question Of holding labor, he
said. was as important as that Of con-
trolling the weeyil.
TIL fundamental basis for growing
cotton under boil weevil conditions,
he said, was fertile soil, and the
Importance of building up the soil by
humuS crops was emphasized. He men
toned also other money crops, such
as tobacco, truck, soy beans and pea
nuts. In speaking Of the progress the
state is making in divcrsiiication he
mentioned that $4,000 carloads of per-
ishable crops shipped out Of the low
country last year; ten creamcrieS are
now being operated, he said, there be-
ing one within SO miles of every farm
in the state; two packing houses are
being maintained and potato curing
houses, too, are operating. He then
told of the remarkable increases in
yield per acre made in the state in
oats, cotton and corn and in conclu-
sion 'We have merely scratched
on thD ,drface. South Carolina is no
place for gloom We have great
people, a wonderful climate and soil
and reputation to sustain
r. |. Manning in a short speech said
he knew cotton could be grown sue
cesSfully under wccvil conditions and
told Of his own experience in the
matter. He had to reduce the acreage
to seven or eight acres to the family
he said. lie stressed the need OF con
that different agencies might not fol-
low different methods Of attack.
TO Reach Rank and File
Col. Harvey Jordan OF the American
Cotton association was presented and
said, among other things: THE cotton
crop is destroyed each year after July
IL. II all our farmers would clean
their fields in May and June there
would be no migration of the insect
TO make 4 fight against the wcevil
successful. we have got to reach the
rank and fine-the men who are be-
tween the plow handles" Next year,
he said, the American Cotton associa-
ton was planning to put on in each
county one or two experimental farms
so that every farmer east of the Mis-
sssippi could see with his own eyes
just how to conduct the war against
the weevl.
we must reach every farmer. Our
people want to grow cotton-therc has
not been much reduction in acreage.
We have got to go beyond newspaper
publicity and let every farmer know
that he must cut his acreage and we
must sho" him how to conduct his
campaign.
"In my county in Georgia 60 per
cent Of the cotton growers have
moved away in two years. From SIT.
where | now live, the cotton
growers arc moving away. They know
nothing but cotton growing and wc
must let them know how to grow
it successfully in 1928"
Tells Of Negroes Leaving
l.. |. GuiOn OF Lugon said that from
his own farm 2S families had moved
north OF Baltimore within the past
year or two and that others were pre-
pairing TO leave. lie said it was hard
to go back to the pre-war wage and
said no one but cotton growers were
doing it.
lie then spoke Of the danger of a
large acreage while the bon weeyil
monaccs the staple.
ID. l.. Smith, of Collcton, outlined
conditions in his county and said his
people were not discouraged despite
the losses brought about by the wee
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NO, The Boil Weeyil Is Not Passing.
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