Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
MASS MEETING IS
CALLED FOR TONIGHT

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declared that there are today more
farm mortgages on the books o.
Sumter county than ever before.
"But, gentlemen, we have at last
found plan to pay off those mort
cages; a plan that if followed, will
produce a maximum crop of cotton
in this county under any weather
conditions that may prevail" said
Judge HiXon
ut comes from the highest au-
thorities. II has been tested and
it works. l have tested it and it
worked right here for me. This
plan will make q crop this year in
this county if followed
Last year we got about one-third
of a crop, roughly $2,OO0,00O. It
is a simple matter of mathematics
to figure what maximum crop
would bring We lost last year $4,-
100000. IL you gentlemen do what
our committee ask you to 10, that
is provide this loan fund of $26,-
0O0, I am satisfied that in the next
10 days we will add $2,OO0,OOO to
the value Of our 1924 cotton CROP.
Is that worth going after? Could
we use it here this fall"
The speaker stated that the COM
mittee had carefully gone into the
cost of poisoning in the county
that the total cost will be $18o.-
600; that one-tbird Of the farmers,
maybe less, bat to be safe that one
third could not procure poison.
Therefore the loan fund is abso
lutely essential, he said.
The speaker again cited results
accomplished in Carroll county,
where 10000 bales were added to
Che crop by following the plan
being used in Sumter. He alao
spoke Of a farm in Calhoun, whore
before the boil weevil came pro
duced 100 to IT'S bales year.
Last year under the plan we ere
using, this farm picked 200 bales,
and they had as much and more rain
shan we had here in Sumter" the
Judge declared.
J. D. Hooks, speaking at some
length on the necessity Of immed-
late and quick work, said that Sum
ter county cotton is farther advanc-
ed than any he had seen and he,
has just returned from a trip that
covered several states
Cotton is like peaches, it can not
be produced without poison and
carly poisoning at that said Mr.
Hooks. ITO wait for 10 per cent
infestation is to lose your crop.
Suppose we peach men waited for
10 per cert infestation. We would
not sell a bushel of peaches. Our
farmers must realize that to get the
weevil, we must get him now, az
the very beginning. The wa to
stop a hen from laying eggs is to
cult off her head The way to
stop the weevil is to get her before
she lays any eggs"
A resolution offered by ROtarian
Tess Mathis, second by Evan Mathis
president Of the Kiwanis club, eX-
pressed confidence in the commit
tee and its plans and pledged the
aid and sympathy of the civic clubs.
Declaring that this fight is the
affair of every business man in
Americas because his success this
fall depends on the 1924 cotton crop
Lovelace Eve said the meeting last
night was not a representative one
and definite action wa spostpored
for tonight, Tuesday, at 1850 p m.
ALL MILITIA DISTRICT
COMMITTEES MEET
At the courthouse Tuesday morn
ing, REPRESENTATIVES from every
district We're present, to fron d
permanent organization and to hear
Mr.. j. C. Maness, who returned to
carry on this morning on the CAM
paign.
Judge J. A. Rixon was elected
permanent chairman and the plans
of the district committees were be-
ing perfected during the noon
hour.
Mr. Names was ereatlv deliehEed