Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-06
Just Among Ourselves

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ERE is a news dispatch from reliable
- source which should be considered
J. = pretty carefully by the readers of The
Tri-Weekly Journal who plant cotton:
"More Cotton in Texas
s.Tahoka, Tex-In twelve counties in the
South Plains region of West Texas and hay-
ing New Mexico for their western border the
acreage to be planted in cotton this season
will more than double last years. Thousands
of acres of raw lands have already been
broken and are being prepared for planting
More than twenty new gins are to be built
This area has an altitude of 5000 feet and up
to this time there has never been boil wee
vii there.
'The movement is not stopping at the New
Mexico line but is being extended into the
eastern part of the state"
Now, this newspaper thinks that dispatch
Is straw that shows plainly the way the
wind is blowing.
The prospects are that the cotton acreage
this summer Is going to be the biggest in
years. What the crop production will be is
be small. Weather and weevil and labor
supply are the things that will determine the
size of the crop. But with the likelihood of
a tremendous acreage, every farmer ought to
. consider well his own situation before he
plants.
How many acres can you cultivate thor
oughly?
On how many acres can you fight the weeyil
with success?
How much fertilizer are you able to buy?
What's it going to cost you to pick that
cotton?
Suppose the weevil gets nearly all OF your
cotton.
Suppose you raise too little to pay the cost
Of production?
Remember what DR.. Soule said in his ar
ticle in these columns few weeks ago:
"First, raise enough foodstutfs to feed your
family.
Second, increase your acreage only to the
extent that you can fertilize properly, Guilt
Yate thoroughly, and fight the weevil on. BY
no means plant more than ten acres to the
pillow: nearer six would be better. Use good
seed work hard, and market through your
state cooperative"
Bear that advice in mind.
It may save you money.
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