Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-24
A THOUGHT
7 Bales on 3 Acres

acres you ailot to the plow; nor
whether you do or do not use poi
son.
The only thing on earth that viii
help you next fall is HOW 3IANY
POUNDS OF COTTON YOU HAVE
TO SELL.
Some farmers will pick one bale
t. :, cry ter acres; another will gel
a bale to the acre.
The difference will lie, not in
the ground but in the HEAD of
the farmer. Cotton CAN be prof
itably produced under boil weevil
conditions. 1t is being done, both
in North and South Georgia.
In his column in the Atlanta Con-
stitution James A. Hoilomon quotes
letter from Representative Cor
don Lee, and an article from the
Chattooga County News, telling OF
farmer in Chattooga county VINO
this year made seven bales of cot
ton on three acres Of land. Here's
the story as published by the News
Mr.. II. H Rivers, an emerge
tic young farmer residing on his
farm three miles southwest of
Summerville, has demonstrated
the past year what Chattooga
county lands viii do in raising
cotton under adverse circum-
stances if properly cultivated
Mr. Rivers made seven 400
poSnd bales of cotton on three
acres of second bottom land.
This land is above the average
in the county, having a rich black
soil three feet deep, but Mr.
Rivers success was due to his
perseverance and close atten-
ton to his crop and alternating
crops on this land.
The three acres that produced
this seven bales has been con
tlnuously in cultivation since the
Indians cleared it over hundred
years ago. Two years ago Mr..
Rivers had this land planted in
peas and soya means, them in
the fall he turned the beans and
peavines under. In the spring he
turned this land with disc har-
row one time, then he laid off
his rows and distributed 1000
pounds of acid phosphate to the
acre and listed on this, then he
put 500 pounds of 1916 guano
to the acre and put his cotton
seed right in with his guano be-
fore covering up.
1t was on May II that he fin
ished planting and on account of
the adverse weather conditions
and large amount of rain that
followed Immediately after Mr..
RIVERS finished planting some of
his cotton did and had to be re-
planted.
When it did come up it grew
very rapidly, but owing to the
small acreage Mr.. Rivers worked
It intensely, blowing it seven
tunes altogether but only chop
ping 1t once leaving the stalks at
intervals of two feet or more.
SpVpn fxr- five
cum arsenate was used to the
acre by Mr.. Rivers as a boil wee
VII preventive at regular inter
walls; though not doing serious
damage they We're with him more
or less during the entire growing.
season. On August the army
worm swooped down on Mr. Riv-
ers' cotton in devastating num-
oers, but by some quick work
with arsenate Mr.. Rivers killed
them out, and on September =
they reappeared and did con
siderable damage in spite of Mr..
rivers efforts to eradicate them
and Mr.. Rivers thinks they at
least damaged his crop to the
extent of a bale of cotton, but
his yield of seven bales is the rec
ord forsthe county and is the Larry
est the writer has heard of in any
county.
There rs lots of land that will
grow just as much in Chattooga
county.
heavyweight hundred pounds OF
INT from three acres of land is some
crop, weevil or no weevil. The fact
that it has been done is conclusive
evidence that it CAN BE DONE
again.
In commenting on. the Chattooga
News article, AIs. Hollomon saws:
In other words this Chattooga
county farmer maze $500
pounds of lint, or fraction
more than five and one-half stand
dard 500 pound bales, on three
acres. He did it by intensive cul-'
tivation, everlasting work, the
use of calcium arsenate poison
ing, and of course by reducing
the three acres to one plow,
or thereabout.
That is the way to master the
boil weevA, and to make money