Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-21
Cooperative Association AL
so Has Helped Relieve Boil
WeeviI Conditions in Dub
lin Section
BY RALPH SMITH

EN- ROUTE, Jan. 19.7-The normal
cotton production in Laurens coun-
ty runs from $4,000 to $4,000 bales
per year. This yield gives to it
banner place among the counties
of Georgia. Burke county alone is
bigger producer of cotton, and
there have been occasions when the
Laurens crop exceeded that of
Burke.
The friendly rivalry that has in
spired farmers in Laurens and
Burke counties to exert themselves
in the production of cotton has been
abandoned for the time being, while
both counties are engaged in des'
perate struggle with the boil weevil,
The pesky little weevil, last year,
played whale with cotton in both
Burke and Laurens counties.
"Our crop shrank from 5000 nor
mally to $4,000 bales last year." ex-
planned j. B. Jones, mayor of Dublin
and formerly cashier Of the Citizens
bank, which has been merged with
the Southern Exchange bank. 1.-THE
boil weevil and wet August COM
bined to ruin the crop"
Comment on the business depres-
sion that has naturally resulted from
the cotton failure is superfluous,
but it is pertinent to remark that in
Dublin and elsewhere in Laurens
there exists a strong confidence that
the county will come back.
Cooperative Association
There is a cooperative association
Of farmers, with a membership of
four hundred that has contributed
wonderfully to relieve the situation,
and which it is believed will in time
rebound to the general benefit of
the county. This association is
headed by G. H. Kittrell as presi-
dent. Mr.. 'Kittrell is d jeweler and
optometrist. He is also a member
of the state legislature, and as such
is largely responsible for the en-
actment of a cooperative market
ing law.
The Farmers Cooperative asso-
citation of Laurens county-that is
the name of the organization-l1as
been functioning for the past three
years, and it's activities have helped
in the emergency occasioned by the
cotton failure.
The association has erected a grain
elevator, and according to Mr.. Kit
trell, it's operation has proved a
beneficial influence throughout the
county. The elevator has capacity
of between 1000 and 5000 bushels
Of corn per day, with storage facili-
ties for over 10000, of which 5000
is in a grist mill that is operated
in connection with the elevator.
1--WE have been operating the e1e-
vator with success to it's owners for
the past three years." said Mr..
Kittrell. II am sure that 1t has
been a boon to the farmers, more
especially the smaller farmers. We
have paid the top price for corn, and
this price, I wish to emphasize, is
far in excess of what the western
farmers are receiving for their corn.
Today, we are paying forty cents a
bushel for corn, and in the west it
is selling for not exceeding twenty
five cents.
"In connection with the operation
Of the elevator and it's buying of
corn, I regard it as pertinent to
observe that we are not engaged in
creating a condition that will prove
a subsequent curse. 1t has been re-
peatedly stated that the farmers
who sell their corn for forty or fifty
cents a bushel will have to buy it
back in the summer for a dollar a