The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-25
PROSPERITY FOLLOWS
HEROTAT|ON OF CROPS
oANKERs AND BUSINESS MEN
m OPERATE WITH FARM
FPS AND DEFEAT WEEVIL.
troopers BECOME OWNERS

CHOPPERS BECOME OWNERS
balanced Agriculture and Co-Opera-
rive Marketing Have Worked Rev
o1ution in Agricultural Conditions
New Leasing Plan for Tenants.
special article in the Sunday
American, written by R. E. White, a
.to4 correspondent, tells how diversi-
6ed farming and cooperative mark
nt;no are rapidly emancipating Deca-
t s,,-' county from cotton bondage, set
~, # in its "place in the sun" and
aH9 it position in the front rank
81 thriving, prosperous and forward
Iooling rural Georgia communities.
a leading cotton producer in the
wears antedating the advent of the
xii weevil-years in which practical
" IFS entire titled acreage was cul-
tivated with an eye single to cotton
oroduction only-Decatur county was
hard hit indeed, when the pest came
IN Georgia, and its farmers and farm
denendent business men alike, after a
series of crop failures, were left stunn-
ed discouraged and many OF, them
hopeless.
HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
But, declares the American CORE
soondent, Decatur county has lifted
itself from the slough of despond'
TO the plateau of hopefulness simply
bv the tardy adoption of the Georgia
Associations so-cal1ed Turner Coun-
& " Plan" of balanced agriculture and
the allied approved plan of co-opera-
tive dealings between the producers,
distributors and consumers of the es-
sential commodities grown or requ1r-
4 ed by the farmers. Continuing, he
says:
Briefly, the plan is nothing more
n nor less than a common-sense scheme
R of agriculture embracing the time
4 honored principles of crop rotation
n and Investigation, with the dairy
4 COW and her essential side partners,
i the hog and the hen, at the bottom
OF it.
And now in this county another
progressive rural plan, a companion
TO that bearing the name of Turner
and probably destined to go down in
history as the Decatur County
Plan" has been put into operation. It
4 is a plan likewise evolved, approved
and recommended by the guiding
spirits of the Georgia Association, cal
b Culated, in a large measure, at least,
TO solve the moot problem of farm
tenantry in Georgia. The positive ne
cessity of a solution of that problem
4 also is directly attributable to the boil
n weevil, for the reason that the ancient
cotton cropper" one-year leasing sys-
tenn that was followed tor. SO many
years with varying success IN the cot
ton districts of Georgia absolutely
will not work" and can not be made
to work successfully under boil wee
vii conditions.
NEW LEASING PLAN.
This new leasing plan simply CON
templates, instead of one-year lease
Of land cultivated in accordance with
the fixed Cow, Hog and Hen" pro,
gram, a lease extending over period
. Of three or five years with the lessee
holding an option either to renew his
lease at its expiration or to buy ano
acquire outright personal ownership
on a longtime payment basis, OF the
land he occupies.
Under the terms of this contract
the lessor agrees to match his lane
against the 1essee's manpower ancc
farm management ability; to stock
the farm with 10 head of good. Jer-
sew COWS. a proportionate' number
according to the Turner county pro
gram-of pure-bred brood sows anc
4 Of Dure-bred hens. The lessee is tc
provide all the labor Necessary to
operate the farm and dairy; both par
ties are to share equally IN the pro
vision of work animals and IN tn'
cost of seed whatever commercial Ter
tilizer that may be put upon the lailu
and the proceeds from the entire oPeI
atoms, including the increase IRON
the live stock, will be divided betWeel
d them on $3.50 basis. In addition L
this the lessee is to have for his lam
4 lily use 900 popnds of meat from TIT
jointly-owned swine herd each year
ample garden space upon when I. =
produce vegetables for his FANNY
table and his wife is to be permitted
1 TO own, manage and feed as many
as 50 chickens that are to be all ne
own and for which there IS to be NJ
accounting to the lessor.
And the contract contains pro
viso that at the expiration OF the leas
the lessee is to have the option 10 re
new it or to purchase the land OF
long term payments, with low rate o
interest on deferred payments.
INTENSIVE CULTIVATION.
This does not contemplate tn
complete elimination of cotton pro
duction, but simply its curtailment Z
a point where cotton-fve acres L
the plow-can be grown on a basi
Of intensive cultivation, in addition t
the production of feed crops to D
marketed in the form of meat, poui
try-yard and dairy products. 1t con
templates for a one-horse farm OF 1
acres of corn, velvet beans and Nortl
carolina peanuts; five acres OF oats
followed by peas or other hay crop
TOUR acres of wheat, followed wit,
Spanish peanuts; FIVE acres OF SPANS
peanuts, or watermeions, or divide
with tobacco; five acres of cotton; |
acres of permanent pasture soWn I
carpet grass, Dallas grass and lespi
qeza clover; the maintenance OF thre
10 SIX good producing mich cow: