Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1925-02-19
JAMES HOLLOMAN
BRINGS 1925 FARM
PROGRAM HERE
Associate Editor of Constitution Urges
Balanced Farm Program And
Closer Cooperation

| James A. Holloman, associate edi-
tor OF the Atlanta Constitution, one of
the Fl volunteers who are making a
tour of Georgia this week in coopera-
ton with the Georgia Cooperative
Cotton Marketing Association and the
State College of Agriculture, address,
ed representative gathering OF far
mers and business men at the Court
House Tuesday afternoon and was
given the closest attention during his
talk, which covered the various phas-
es of farm problems confronting the
Georgia farmer.
Hon. VIM. r. Bowen, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, himself
firm believer in the proposed pro-
meeting of the State Agricultural So
of better farming and the need of CO.
operation in introducing the speaker,
whose efforts in behalf of the farmers
through the columns of the Constitu-
ton have endeared him to Georgians
Mr.. Holloman preceded his talk with
the statement that he felt perfectly at
home with the folks of this county, as
he recalled the arrival of the first prai-
rie schooner in 1895 in the colony,
when he was sent here by the New
York Herald, for which paper he was
then working, to write up the ingen-
uous colonization project then under
way, to settle veterans of the Union
army in the very heart of the Con-
federacy and recalled with pleasure
the congenial atmosphere that prevail
ed in those early days.
THE farmers problems are the prob
| lens of the city folks OF Georgia,
which is in the final analysis, an ag
| ricultural state and the states pros
perity can only come through the sue
cessful operations of the farmers"
said Mr.. Holloman. "We no longer
can afford to depend on cotton alone,
having to some extent lost the right
to believe that we of the cotton states
held monopoly on the growing of
the staple, as foreign countries are
making progress in their own terri
tories i'll supplying large part of
| their needs of cotton on their own land
especially England, which is fos-
tering, cotton production in many of
her colonies with more or less success.
Indian Egypt and other countries are
growing cotton, which makes them
| formidable competitors in this field. A
| balanced farm program is the more
| direct way to recovery of our pres
tige, dividing our farm operations in
to at least four money crops, which
can be profitably grown in this clim-
ate and our soil. Addition of dairy
herds, to free the farmer from the
need of commercial fertilizer was an
other remedy suggested to cut down
the cost of farm operations. Closer
Il II a.,
lines of marketing farm commodities
closer community cooperation, to make
farm life more attractive and liveable
for the farmers family in which the
speaker paid a special tribute to the
women of the farm, whose cooperation
with father, husband or brother, has
always brought a greater degree of
comfort and prosperity to the home.
Boil Weevil Less of Evils
Having followed the progress of the
boil weevil from its entrance into the
country from Mexico and saw its raw
ages throughout the cotton belt, Mr..
HollOman pronounced him one of the
lesser evils, as intelligent farming, in
tensive cultivation and use of poison
has proved that cotton can be made in
profitable quantity on les acres, leav-
ing other acres, labor and fertilizers
for the growing of crops which can
be marketed at profit to the produc-
er. Buying for cash. the needed sup
plies was also one of the recommend
ations of the speaker, who indicated
that sufficient credit will be extended
to the deserving farmer, whose farm
operations are carried on in business
like way, through his local banks or
the agencies established by the several
cooperative selling agencies of farm
products.
Mr.. Holloman paid special high
tribute to the management OF the Co
ton of Georgia, in stating that the
banks of the country, who at the be-
ginning Of the movement were slow in
extending aid to this movement, are
now backing these men with unlimit-
ed funds to carry on, assuring its mem
bers of a systematic plan of selling
their cotton, instead of the former cha
otic condition that prevailed through
out the cotton growing states.
| Mr.. ]. c. Greer, division agent for
the Georgia Cooperative Cotton Mar
keting Association and Mr.. Knox, To-
cal agent for the same also spoke, as
did County Agent, c. T. Owens, who
gave a report of the activities OF his
cotton, corn and peanut club boys,
whose remarkable success last season,
was so noticeable
Mr.. Holloman spent the night in the
city and left Wednesday morning for
Ocilla where he spoke at the Court
House and at Ashburn in the alter
| noon.