Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10

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can mop three acres in day
just as well, perhaps better, than
an adult. They don't have to
bend over"
l might write several columns
more about what [ saw on Mr..
Hills various farms, but there
would be nothing to contradict
any of the statements preceding.
| talked with his one new ten
ant, talked to him alone and
apart from my party. He had
the unea siness a negro always
has in discussing vital matters
with stranger, but l wormed it
out of him that he had sought
his present place because his
former landlord insisted on
other methods of weeVil control
than that of Mr.. Hill.
Mr.. Hills niggers pay out"
he said, "and I didn't last year,
so L come when I had de
chanst."
I drove to the farm owned by
Sim Bell, who is president of the
National bank at Waynesboro.
Mr.. Bell is wealthy and he has a
fine farm which is managed by
J. A. Broxton, superintendent or
"oVerseer," as they call it. He
is a young man, but as smart as
a whip.
"How much land have you in
cOtton?" I asked Mr.. BroXton.
Three hundred acres"
"Have you any weeVils?"
You can look and see for
yourself. They are under per-
feet control"
Have you had any this year,"
eyes. The cotton shows for it.
self"
"How long have you used
Hills MiXture?'
"At the middle of last season
I saw the weevil was eating up
the coffin under the treatment
I was using. I switched to
Hills mixture, gave the crop
four applications and saved $50
bales"
"How much cotton have you
raised in the past on this acre
age?"
Zone hundred and eighty bales
in 1920; 10l bales in 1921; 100
bales last year."
Glow much do you expect this
year,"
IT'S hard to say it now looks
like between 200 and 800 bales"
At Cough my party was uneX-
pectedly Joined by a party that
came from Athens. In it were
J. E. Cobb and A. A. and w. c.
Flanagan, brothers, all three
of these men being Clarke coun-
ty farmers.
They had attended field test
of Hills Mixture near Athens on
Wednesday of the week before.
They had been impressed, they
said, by the cage tests and the
rest of it, and since their ground
was too wet for work on Mon
day had driven down to Burke
county to see how the Hill plan
was working out on actual
crops. While Georgians by birth
they were from Missouri in one
feature Of character.
They were convinced by what
they saw, they told me as they
were leaving.
This is a fair statement of
such testimony and evidence as
| obtained.
Hills statement and DIR. Hud-
sons statement contradict the
declarations of certain official
A ice
by w. +. Kinds, of the Alabama
experiment station at Auburn
that they have been able to find
no evidence of any attraction
for the boil weeVil in Hills Mix
ture A similar report has been
issued from the government eX-
pertinent station at Florence,
S. G..
A Georgia scientist, state Of
fetal, says he thinks such re-
ports are not based on test of
sufficient duration to determine
the worth of Hills Mixture or
any other preparation. He says
he thinks a full cotton season is
required for a real test of the
merits of any of them.
They are all being tested I'M
der state auspices at Faldosta.
Reports on this experiment will
not be available till fall.
The boil weevil is destroying
great part of the cotton in
Georgia, according to reports
from all sections.
l., Af
of good cotton; Bell, who is not
interested in Hill, has 800 acres
of good cotton; Palmer has 400
acres of good cotton; there are
hundreds of other acres in Burke
county that are now weeVil-free
all under treatment of Mills
Mixture.
And there also are hundreds of
acres in Burke county that are
literally eaten up by the weevil
and on none of this had Hills
Mixture been applied. [ saw
one farm owned by great land
lord, which was splendidly de-
veloped in plant growth and
beautifully cultivated. How that
poor negro must have worked!
There was not a blade of grass
to be seen in the wettest season
ever known-and fifty per cent
of the squares were punctured
and weevils were nearly as thick
as chiggers in blackberry
patch. Their destruction must
have been done in just day or
two, for the squares were not
yet fallen. He was sticking to
Home Brew.
A stones throw away, across
the road, was a field on which
this concoction Of Hills was
used. I could not find a weev!I
in it. In thirty or forty-five
days I will again go over the
fields 1 saw the other day. That
will cover the period during
which the weevil does his great
est damage.
When [ suggested to Mr.. Hill
that L would like to come again
in August, he said he would be