Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-22
COTTON SHOULD Be
PPODUCEDAT PROFIT
SAYS ENT0N0L0GIST
Properly Fertilize, Cultivate and
Poison, Advises Williams in
Statement to Farmers
DIV The Associated Press,

ATLANTA, Dec EVERY
acre of cotton planted by the farm
ers in the State of Georgia, should
be grown at profit % them, is the
opinion of State Entomologist Ira
w. Williams, in a statement pre-
pared here this week dealing with
the cotton estimate,
State Entomologist Williams
state Sthat every farmer in the
State should prepare himself FIR
1925 by the purchasing of calcium
arsenate in their fight against the
boil weevil.
The statement of Mr.. Williams
follows in part:
During the fall when the gov
eminent report came out on the es-
timated yield of cotton and report
ed that by reasons of tie drought
crop, the value of the 100000 bales
short from previous estimates, cot
ton went up SIT bale We made
calculation of the loss IF 600. 900
bales at the market rrice at that
time land then calculated the value
of the crop as estimated by the gov
eminent less 100000 bales, and
found that when we subtrac3ed
from the increased value of the
crop. the vale of the 100000 bales
lost by the drought, tho South made
about $180,000,000 by reason of
the decreased production on ac-
count of the drought Every farm
er knows that large crop brings
less money than a small one, be-
cause of the decline in price. What
lis the lesson to be learned from
this? That every farmer who plants
an acre of cotton should produce
that acre of cotton at a profit, and
no cotton should be planted unless
a profit is made on rhe amount
planted.
"The man who is growing cot
ton at loss, and a large number
OF people are doing this, is not only
losing money himself, but he is los
ing money to his community in a
number of ways. First. he is put
ting acres in cotton which is count
ed in the census as probably an in
creased acreage; he is growing an
aero nf cotAov f,ot,, 11,L;cL H. Joo-
not get back as much as he puts into
it, which is loss to him and. his
community. Next, he is growing an
acre of cotton which by reason of
the fact that he does not poison it,
produces boil weevils to damage his
neighbours cotton at the time of
the migration of the ~eevil from
which his neighbor can not protect
himself,
"On account Of this increased
acreage and the non-profitable cot
ton which he has grown at loss to
himself and the community, he re-
duces the price on the cotton which
is grown or would b. grown at
profit. This, taken as a whole is
very great economic ;oss to the
State. There should be campaign
carried on by every interest in the
State, bankers, manufacturers, com
mercial clubs, and every organiZa-
ito nto insist that every acre of
cotton should be made profitable
acre by seeing that it is properly
fortified and properly cultivated,
and above everything, properly pois-
oned with calcium arsnnate to con.
troll the boil weevil.
"This year we have had a NUM-
be rof examples where people have
grown Is bales on 100 acres where
they did not poison, while their
neighbors grew Is bales on every
Is to 20 acres. We hope that every
one will get behind the campaigns
and insist that only so many acres
are planted to cotton, that the tarm
er is properly able to cultivate it
and poison the weevil with calcium
arsenate, thereby adding treman-
dously to the wealth Of the State"
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