Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
COTTON CAS- BE
PRODUCED, IF YOU
FOLLOW THE RULES.


FOLLOW THE RULES.
Cotton ctn be produced in Sum
ter county successfully and there's
money inj it. but it can't be done
in the Of 4 way.
Two Jhings are necessary if the
sumterI farmer makes a financial
succes3 of cotton
Firf, he must know how to CON
trol the boil weevil-then 60 do
it, and
SECOND, he must diversity; raise
fobd crops at home.
THE above statements, word for
viord, were made to us the other
day by one of the county's largest
and most successful farmers,
man who knows COTTON from the
seed to the gin, and VINO also
knows what it takes to make
success Of farming.
The first step is the complete
destruction Of cotton stalks. The
fellow who is not willing TO take
the first step need not worry about
the second His chances for sue
cess are limited, not so much be-
cause of the stalks, but because
ne is not willing to play the game
for all that's in it.
Commissioner of Agriculture ].
J. Brown, realizing the situation
that confrents the Georgia farmer
IN this respect, has the following
to say:
The farmer who expects to
make cotton another year must
begin now.
The man who plows up his
stalks and turns them under with
pillow will hide so many boil
weevils till he will be able to pro-
duce cotton in 1924.
"All hedges Should be cleaned
up and burned out and this should
be done promptly. No use in
waiting I'll the weeviis have
sought Information places.
Every farmer has realized that
he carried over the supply of
weevils that destroy his crop.
They don't come over from a
nelghbor's field, in all probabil-
lty, but they are the ones he rails
ed and furnished a hiding place,
by leavis g vegetation on the
ground, and out-houses where
they can hide
'All now realize that they
must fight their own weevils
The sooner the start is made the
sooner will the rest of the South
reach its normal production of
cotton"
The campaign Of weevil extermi-
nation must be inaugurated at
once and carried on with the great
est vigor and determination, If
success is to be ours next year.
There is no argument against this
statement" says the Columbus En-
quirer-Sun, in an editorial to this
effect:
Already we have seen what the
boil weeyiI has done, and we
know that it will do again and
again IN the future what has
Deen done again and again in the
past
It may seem to some to be a
little inconsistent on the part of
the Enquirer-Sun to urge the
farmers to make this war against
sthe boil weeEi lin view of the
fact that it has so insistentlv
urged at all times the necessity
Tor crop Investigation but there
Is no inconsistency in the posi-
ton Of this paper in doing this.
The Enquirer-Sun. as we'll as
every other newspaper and every
person who knows anything about
farming or the needs OF the peo-
pie, knows that cotton is one Of
the worlds great necessities. 1t
is recognized fact that cotton
is used more extensively now
than it has ever been used before
IN the history of the world, and
would be used still more extern
sively if conditions were such as
to enable those needing ii to OBJ
tain it.
Cotton and cotton goods are
in demand the world over. There
is not a spot on the globe, ex-
eept. perhaps, ut the poles. where
there is not a general demand for
cotton goods, and this particular
section is better adapted to the
growth of the raw material than
any other in the world.
But cotton cannot be grown
abundantly under tie boil Wee
vii conditions. The little insects
destroy it, and the only way to
prevent their destructive work is
to rid the fields of them.
Diversification is absolutely ne
cessary. The ali-cotton farmer