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HULME’S FARM IS
IN GEORGIA
COL. T. LARRY GANTT
per Sere. Itja the Whitley Pro
lific, ft Georgia production, and
the stalks hare from two to four
ear*. We aaw a feld of very fine
corn planted the 18th of June, af
ter a crop of outa were harveated
from the lapd.
It la conccddt? by all who know
Harold Hulme’ ’ that he la one of
the moat progressive and sUccess-’
ful farmers In tqla section of Geor
gia. It Is Hu? general Impression
that a farmer must be horn and
trained between the plow-handles,
a. It were, to succeed. But Harold Mr. Hulmea plants several van-
llulme has demonstrated that such etles of cotton but preterta College
training in notesKHtlai. He fs'llt No. 1. as It Is ar, early variety
ermlly & town.boy, being born and and yields well. It wilt require
reared In 1 Athens and acquired his several articles to tell about Mr.
agricultural lore by study. Some • Holme's farm and ihls different
eight or nine years ago. fresh from 1 crops. Next week we will publish
the halls of college, he took charge I a wonderful story of a new grass
of their farm and from the first- crop ho has introduced, which he
-ear mastered .the business and calls tho Hulme Grass. It yields In
as made of It a crowning Success, hay and as green stuff for ensil
age reads like a romance.
IVEO AT Mr, Hulme says he pays his
IOME .hands standing wages and feeds
them. He can always fin work on
produced in this section,-far morelsnys: "Our spinners prefer the
profitable than cotton has ever I American cotton and will return
been. Think of our importing!to It as soon as possible, because
canned beans and brooms when they have been using It for gen-
we can grow the material soieratoina and therefore know the
— " -—well. Furthermore, (he
profitably at home. Mr. Willi- grades -
ford says he is told that brdoni grades are uniform, which is more
corn has advanced in price from
$80 to |400 per ton and it can 'bo
grown as successfully in Madison
and other counties around Athens
as anywhere onithe continent. It
is easily worked, requires no fer
tilizer or poison, and the seed
make splendid chicken feed. Why
not some of our farmers inves
tigate this new crop?
FIGHT ON WEEVIL
than can be said for the /oqtsld
era,’ and this makes for better
production from the spindle and
looms.”
Let our southern cotton-growers
sit steady .n the boat, hold on to
the advantages they now have—-
growing their own supplies and
making of the staple a surplus
and money crop—and ours will
become one of the richest and
bushels per ncre. He planted one
field of bearded wheat, but says it
also had come rust.
He hsa a grove or sixty bearing
pecan trees, and everything else .
tit t be produced In this coun
try. He has always made it his
practice not Only to raise'at home
everything to maintain his farm
but sbme to sell.
But what most Impressed us
with Mr. O’Kelly’s farm wag the
way he has improved and brought
up his land since we tlrst knew *.♦
He has shown what can be ; ac
complished In this section. And he
MAKES "MONEY Oil
truck farm oh the Bogart road. H«
lo.t one'arm la,a aaw mill, but *yi
hf can do if muck work no my
man. Mr. Adame rent, land from
the Meiara. Scott for hla truck
Ing bualneaa. nnd la making
moat independent section* on the;and lowing legume planta. George
has done thla by rotating croua. ceaa.of it. He aaya there la more
American continent. Even the
eastern cotton mills are 1 being
moved to the south, and this only
a beginning of the end.
All our old . ettliens , remember j hlsd farm in so keeps hts hands
Cousin Billy"' Mathews, one of our busy. In Mr. Bond, his manager, he
it and moat respected citizens
nd successful, .farmers. "Cousin
illly," as all ..called him, madejt
rale to grow plenty of every-
hlng to susta.u hts farm and made
If cotton a surplus and money
rop. "The Blftok Friday.'’ foUow-
ng the panic..that threatened to
rreck the whoIe.,oountry, "Cousin,
Illly,' 'rode bin horse Info Athens
id w»a asked If be did not think
_e country wss ruined? "Why.
ie replied, "I see nothing to worry
bout. Whgn I left home this
lornlng my cribs were full of corn,
ly bams of Mr.*W smokfe-bouse
f meat, and 'ftrertr. plow moving,
cousin Billin' Mathews was the
indfather of Harold Hulme and
e has probaidr. (Inherited
arming Instil
out from
says he has a good man and when
absent be .knows hit Instructions
are. being carried out io the letter
and everything going on right.
BELIEVE ATHENS
NEEDS CANNERY
Mrs. Troutman the lady who bar
made our curb market euch a
crowning aucceee, rays aho will
not be gatiafied until there la an
hla organisation In Athena to market
sound Judg- ' the aurprua vegetables brought In
in. Tho farm by farmera for which there la not
e works’was* a^part Of the old a local aale. The .ucceto of the
fathews place and who owned a curb market will induce farmer,
w pass
u^f..n arwl tha an. • miHutf do this. , > > . j
this In the
Wiiaervilte-tS^Iu 1 !, nnd lb# en- -siimot do this.
trm haa been brought^
Ighest state of
idfcinra _
Curb imarket la the beat thin#
t/ acres planted lnfevfer organised in Athens, and can
iiL-va* toiling, nnd.be and Should be moulded into a
^;i‘Vnri r &lbo-Wn Wajis, Md ybe hud should be moulded into
l\lV ,TLn torn undeV ' next! area, bu.lqe.,.. Mr. Bradberry ray.
Ich he will turn
iring wb
better I'
five aerea of suitable
_ __ tj cap h. Irrlgatad,. , apf
mirare a« tier’furnish fnore Plant It 111 vreetobles and like pro-
» mature "JJ.. Hulme 1 duce. and will make more clear
UmU *ho» d ho believe#’a heavy coat i money than a farmer can by cul-
W'JZ'i h U.«Turaed h uL V e y r5 ; -v- n a. hundred acre. In cel.
erth a. muehsaftonof fertU; ‘ £ Troulm>n , h| , „ M
or per nre determined that Athens will by
™ Jf® ■ro.n^ M a cover cZ ”•*> spring have a flr.t-cl«e esit
id crimson clover as a cover cr i> j f-.tnrv rnmhlned
She has these entorprl.it figured
out and says ehe can convince any
on* that they wlll-prive a paylnr
investment. All the vegeUbles
iught to the city and not mar.
lie, can be sold to the
□salble material to take
■tliHiaiSi
the eaanery. Athrar
ulld up your-,land. But he uses
as a winter pasturage for cat-
e, and when he breaks up bit
nd In the epring the plow turni
Oder a coating of vegetation. -
ulme .tiae'Te negro boy tow:
■ rattle
ddt to L
it he InMbda lo*g h vrii
ound.hls»ntlre>Tafln.Ii b"”™ J .pends thousands of diUara every
itton or any other crop for two I rnr for | m p 0r t,d canned good,
'are In spccesslon on the “““ I that should be at hoi
eld. he covers the ground wit# „„ Troutman has
able manure. icees of everything she has under-
Mr. Hulme eay* unless a farmer Bnfl wt ftre counting on
date* crops and plants legume h#r , 0 c arry her plane through,
ops, land need, resting the same Farmer, in this section believe In
men. T^pse land owner* whose , h#r ttn4 w hen a stranger vlrlls the
arms were Idle thla year for lack i cut j, m „rk.t they always hunt hen
labor to cultivate them will find j up. We wish we could Inject eome
im producing better crops and n f her spirit Into svery cltlsen of
sy will gain about aa much lu| xth>M .
> future bad tnetr land
orked thla year.
We Inspected Mr, Hulme s cot-
on. Ho has 150 acre* planted
he itaplo and says
.. would
have mad* much more bad
he boll weevil never appeared,
rhls has been a most unfavorable
Uar tor cotton. But wc sever car
no jar. nviroe say. wife who made them with hcr own
k bale per are on tome Helda, and ^ ^ (oun<J
hose T^o, have j fifty cants etch, and are as terv-
h* Is good for 110 tf lK b«l« : | lce , J bI , u broom , , emnlf for „
? # HVlmr^y“.«“of hli’I^W®®* broom, sei.lng for 75
b |eld *. h ® Jn talking with Mr. Wffllforf
ere, but this. J™* “'®^f,„J about these brooms we unearthed
SELLS BROOMS
AT A PROFIT
Mr. K. B. Williford, of Madison
county, n».r Comer, brought to
Fsrmers In this section whuj
have intelligently and persistently;
fought the boll weevil will double]
thb yield of last year, and there
are individual instances where a
bale of cotton per aero will be
made. And each year they are
learning better how to combat the
peat. It is How established that
we can grim cotton under boll
weevil conditions, bnt it is a
never ending and very costly
work. But cotton i* the sbuth’s
greatest monoy crop and we- can
find notiling to take ita place. Our
section has a monopoly in the
production of the short staple cot
ton, and the world depends upon
it for raiment and many o
uses that naught else can
cheaply supply. The increased
price for cotton this season will
serve to balance tho short crop,
and the reduction in acreage will
permit our farmers to grow food
:rops. So instead of King Cotton
to rule over and enslave the
southern fanner, we ran make ol
the old tyrant a useful and prot-
jtable servant.,,,
GEORGE O’KELLEY
HAS FINE FARMS!
|f you want to see one of
finest and most up-to-date farats
In Georgia or the south, vielt that
of Mr. George O'Kelly, on the
Wlntcrvllle road, four mile# from
Athens. You will be well repalf
for your trip. All of. our oldei
ritlsenav remember hla father, who
Tiad n photograph gallery on .Broad
street, but every night would go
by buggy to his farm. Bike all of
the land In that section—now the
garden spot of Upper Georgia—It
was thin eoil, worked In the old-
faehloned way. Dr. Jonea who
owned the Southern Cultivator at
that tlmeetho only farm paper In
the South, also had an "experi
mental'' farm on this road, but the
scant crops were not much of on
advertisement for the doctor as an
expert fanner. '
CLAIMED OVER
PRODUCTION .1
Before - the appearance—of-..the
boil weevil, the claim was made , ipn acre?, and 1
•
at, and sometimes below,
reduction. 1 But' two anwri
dikin' succession haa' reduced
• p *- * point where ab
normal condition
the stocks to point where any
thing ,lilts normal - conditions
exhaust them -before tha
l. harvested, r. t - t
iev/ crop U harvested.
A recent letter from *
the staff of .the Lomlen,,
?eWd tom^Twith the mar-
iets of the worldf They are now
using Peruvian, African and In
dian cotton, but they cannot make
with these cottons a* '*"•
uid it is more costly to spin. The
mult is that English "'““J"]
lure of cotton goods <»
ibout one-balf and. their con
mmptlon of cotton of course is
proportionately cut.
th«
The negro is the peasantry of
the southland the beat and cheap
est labor we can have. An over
powering number of these people
labor on farms, and it ig best for
their race and also the white land-
owners that they be intelligently
trained. And that they can be
trainod to become successful
farmers has been demonstrated in
numerous instances. The late Col.
James M. Smith had negroes
trained ns foremen, and told : thd
writer that he met with much
* ♦tori.v letter results by havinfr negro
foremen,over^^hia black hand* than
begin hdvaneid hiw ^ fn , . •*
da III ,i*M» reCS* , i
- , . e “dsdd , other Anil wei believe it will ba the
-■ Atu ’ ..i.— ssreiin rnn
At M* father'* death Oeor#e
O’K^lly bought the farm, contain-
began' At one#
O’Kelly never plants the same
crop on a field two years in suc
cession, and by this means keep*
the soli supplied with humus. It
would be a day well spent for far
mers in the counties around Ath
ens to visit George O'Kelly and
learn his methods.
Hi
NOW TO FARM
Prof. Phil Campbell, of tho
State College of Agriculture, is
now engaged in a most needed and
commendable work. Prof. Camp
bell. has throughout Georgia. a
number of negro farm demonstra
tors at work improving production
by negro farmers, thus enabling
m to become more prosperous
and content.
: aWri<uiltKri>l metnods
tlo'n. Hh; b»«. alnca adedd ,
anolhei;djlfcq_ of that asjrdiiirjjwj*
gro farm < demonstration agent*
for members of their rare; >
In Georgia to eurpaas, JI ^ 'well for ihuf. Camp'
nnd easier money In lomatoe.
•ban nny crop di-own, nnd eopccl.
- 1 1>- if you can get them Ir. market
early and late. Ho Is now felling
to jobbera at 82 per crate and say,
he haa made 8800 cratev on, MI
acre, but thin Is an extra fins yield.
But most sny year you can grow
from 800 to 000 cratea by proper
preparation of tho land. Mr. Ad
am* says, there Is more ,Work and
legs profit in beans than] ttfy crop
n tracker can grow. If you can get
your bean* on the market, very
early they' pay injeely, hilt' When
other vrcotablrs sro plentiful beano
become a drug. ‘He snyo hs t. not
an export wnterinHon ralqor, but
make* them ' pay .Mm ■ abopt MOO
Dor acre. But It doe* not require
much labor to grow melons. He
says there da-.aom# profit In
corir; but no big thing, wbtn ov-
cryons is selling it.-*.--
He^ irrows nYl kinds 6T Vegetable#
and says hfe makes his trucking
business pay. But if Athena would
arrange to can or ehlp country
produce farmera could then go in.
to the trucking business systema
tically with an assurance of sell
ing all they rater. The Insects that
prey on beans nnd many other
vegetables are a serious menace.
- Secretary Carroll says he I
llevea that a cannery company
can be organised in Athene,
one could be made to pay and la
needed. W» ^Ktd 'A‘
some years'ago Taut that'
boll weevil daje and
.era planted nothing bst
hderlhe changed con-
upon us a cannery
a psWtiMh+Mtn***'in
It Wohia fceopi *t -*oh* *
m of nlrfite#
(By Associated Press).; ,
ATLANTA—State . Superlnlon-
dent of Schools N. H. Ballard is
mplctiog plana fbr the survey
of Georgia’s educational system
and tha actual work'Is schodaled to |
Mart within the n»x( several day*
according to Infc-ms'lnn Mvon out I
at hla department.
Announcement that the aurvey ]
would be made was given by Dr.
Ballard several weeks ago am'I
rtnc# then he ha, held many con-1
ferencea in a number of ( i Georgia
counties with educational officials, i
Numerous reforms In the present
■yetem are necanmiry. according tq|
the superintendent, who has em
phnslied that ono of the,chief of
theodM a change In .the flavidal I
rapport i of tbk scuohid.
Anderson Plumbing Co.
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Good Mechanics
Good Material
Best Prices
Phone, 1116 40 W. Chiyton
AMBULANCE
106-Phone-1025
DORSEY’S
Funeral Chapel
Hancock and College
Avenues.
—
—-j
’ Plenty of Money to Lend on Real Estate
[during tUd’yaar-'n
.Li „^«oWan
and fUMMMf
S-. o -"U no a
b*'found t .
'equal If], Mr. O'Kelly hai done — .— r.
much as any'farmer In Clarke «*» "J* try this, egpqrimont aa
coupty to ehcoursgo Ptorrrrelv. ««- ■
ricuiiure. ! He is n lenuer ip «•> r*“*- r*‘ r, j “"••I
movement lb ..slat the farmer. ,nd!po°pl4-,Jt_is * mistolto -to educate| . /
Radio Making
Hit on Farm
jiyi h th.' lt MwchesZ [wtotrev'llie'puro sZ nl AiEII>ctotlo h n ^Ihope'lfitUte, lot when they are|dto for 'ptactloal and nodal pum,
■ ■ “‘“ of AmuricVfWIntpwWh Pure seed Aviation UB|fht >c|entiflc _ 1Bd .dviheed peeaa la thown hi a recent rar-
ATLANTA—The ■; speed . with
ilane he can never! which fanners have taken up rar-
States
With the huUdinu of 5 0t ) h J, throuiR for he would crura every
mills In the cotton fields “' ‘UI clod and make of It a perfect oe*d
I.Wd cannot compel* be c , unt#d on mBk
Last Friday the writer paid a vis agriculture* they are in a position Ivey made by the United
It to Mr.' O'Kelly and spent some where they have full latitude to Department of Agriculture, o
. co(| y of wh , ch hu bttn r^.ivra at
the capItoL
County agricultural agouti estl*
mate there now ire approximately
40,000 radio seta bn farms In 780
counties. Thle lo an average of 51
sots per county. Applying thla av.
erase to 2,850 agricultural counties
a total of more than 145,000 aet
time Interviewing him and Inapect
Ing hla farm. He waa preparing
an alfalfa patch of three acres and
hie old alfalfa field ho had plow
ed up and wae arranging to sow
the land In oalo.
With n tractor and largo plows
ho had thoroughly broken
prou nek but eald ho was
gn for ha would crush every
-land tapnot compel
lecturers aha
as leadort.ljl
luring worltjf
mv. wavnWouUWnOT
grow’ But manufactura cotton intt
„ me- ^This tsla of woe from English
kptarmre trill not find much sym
pathy from our aouthern cotton
growers who will remember that
ho pity was extended them when
toko"«n y rw.-
ment of these English mamifab-
turen without profit, and some
times below cost Of production-
snrpliui hat been
ortaMted and warehouse, swept
clean! the tide his turned and the
cotton producer I* being given a
share of-the fruit* of .hi* toil.
WORTH
PICKING
SmhSmiMits-tta. h. h«W curb maricet a bundle of
he will make home-made brooms, sent in by his
Mr. HV-me says be will maze her own
lug at least 100 bushels of osts ue r
a ore. And another specialty with
George O’Kelly, he plant* only the
bnt and purest saed, and had or
dered n pew kind of oats that cost
titm $8 per busheL
dly la a gnat believer
In alfalfa, and will plant tore)
acre. In that crop. He say* ha
cult hie alfalfa generally five
time* during the season and
will make three tens per acre. He
says It I*' a wonderful crop to Im.
prove land and nothing can equal
It. He geta 180 per ton for al
falfa bay. Like hla oata he war
pACpariSra the *« an ash bank.
and crop* We counted the
bwn boll, on a number of near
;e stalks ind they number from
t to *0. Mr. Hulme gay* he dqet
-It select ii patch to demonstrate
rlth. but hla entire cron Vf(ll JTT
erase about the same. The Stalk*
a laden with bolls from bottom
top. Mr.vHulme says be applies
lctum areenate In the dust from
_.id follow* direction* of the de.
wrtment ol agriculture. He has
lusted bis cotton six time*, and
»pt It up during the season. He
the government employs ex-
anil scientific men to ex-
•eriment with crops, and they
r better than he does. Farmer*
■ better follow the direction,
if these expert*. Mr. Hulme use*
rom 400 to 800 uounda of 8, 4 1-2,
fertilizers to the acre of Us own
_anutacture, and which In equlva-
ent to about 800, pounds of stan-
'vrd grade,
on ACRES -
N CORN -
He has 30 acres planted In corn,
nd It is equal to his cotton crop.
The com will average JO bushels
a little story of what three short
rows in a garden can be made to
Pag, and which shows the wonder
ful' possibilities of our country.
Last spring Mrs. Williford
blanted ■ three rows in her garden
in beans and they brought her tC
when sent to Athens and sold. In
June after the bean vines died
down, she planted the land in
broom' corn. The corn grew off
well and matured in about a hun
dred days. This lady made some
brooms for her own use, and they
were so serviceable that she sent
some to our curb market for sale.
From these three garden row*
Mrs. Williford gathered enough
materia!, to make twenty nice
brooms, and which will bring her
in 910. With the bean crop her
net income from this narrow strip
of land will be f 16. You can per
haps estimate what ctp b* done
with an acre or more
But the danger that menace,
the cotton-growers of our imme
diste section, ss ltkewta® the en
tire belt. Is, encouraged by the
high price now paid for the small
crop, that next year tney * frBt „ bu , mct0 r and planta and
plant too Jaw ““'SSect the harvest, nil of hi. om.ll grain rad
hav crops. Ho uso# all the labor,
savin# ahd Improved farming im
Mr. O’Kelly has this yoar 7B
acres planted in cow ptaa for hay.
He says It takes an extra *ood
crop of peas to make a ton of hay
per acre, but being a. legume plant
It greatly Improves the land and fr
the clever af the south. !!« says
no crop pays the farmer like hay.
for the time and labor expended
H» get# $25 per ton for his pea-
vino hay./ His two little sons, tho
oldest only fifteen years old. op
S5b Tnd not Jnly SSU* the
food crops • but give tHe nulls on
3Sr C 2E«Sri£ to
prices. This h “
every thinking cotton-grower that
ffiwfKSS
&,“ar «£&$£
grower has now the worid by tne
toil and a down-hill pull, if n*
W l 0 d nl w y |th 0 to. h wfw P «*vil among
us^nd theSmt is here to .toy-
ratten is a very uncertain crop.
If wo* have a dry summer we can,
by the intelligent «»• J*hSuSX
make * s™* 11 C ”P ® f c .'? tt0 "’
if it rains incessantly the weevil
‘Lt? wour orospecU. It
plemcntr, and makes his crops with
much less expense than the aver
age farther. He has brought hla
fond up to such a state for culti
vation. that he can use a tractor
and machinery oil nny of his fields
exercise their allotted place in the
south, and can he of tervico to
themselves, the white land-owner
and their' country. Of course it
will take time and patience to
complete this work, but the sooner
it starts the sooner will it bo pos
sible. In traveling through the
country one can pick out at a
glance every farm worked by a
negro cropper or renter, from its
Inferior crops and poorly culti
vated ilckls. If a few negroes in
every community can be taught
every community can be taught
how to intelligently plant and
cultivate their crops their pre
cept end example will be sgrfad
to others.. ; * n i » r •-£ -
on farms throughout the countr#
Is estimated by the department*
Federal weather forecasts,- crop,
reports and.market quotations nqw
are. broadcart from 150 radio Sta
tions throughout the country,
cording to the survey.' In i
'
By J. WILLIAM FIROR,
ilanted first in beans an
broom corn, two crops
year.
Our farmers are just learning
tho luuuy money-crops that can be
will destroy your prospects.
Ill dopsnd, upon the seasons. But
the world must have our cottop,
and the smaller the crop the high
“ the price. Let us continue to
n reduce the grestast abundance of
food supplies and make, of cotter
a surplus crop, end ell will be
W Thc south need never feujjeri-
cu* competition from cotton
grown in other countries. An
g^glish manufacturing journal
George OlCelly has sixty acres
planted, in cotton and at 'the time
of. our visit\hnd gotten out five
bales, and could nick 200 pounds
a day. Mr. O’Kelly says h* will
average two-thirds of a bale pif
acre In spite of the boll weevil.
He began to use poison before s
square appeared and has kept It
bo. The first applications were'the
Hill Mixture, but when his plants
began to gain site he used calci
um arsenate In the dust form.
Of all the methods Used In the
fighting of the boll' weevil, the de
•traction of the cotton etalka earl#
In the fall seeme to be the least un
derstood sr.d l««.t applied. Why
this Is true Is somewhat difficult
to see. It does not seem possible
that th# farmer* are not interested
in October In making a crop the
following year, further. It does not
seem possible (hat farmera arc not
generally Interested In reducing the
chance of heavy weevil Infestation
throughout any community or
county.
Therefore, the reason must b*
thr.t the application of this meth
od Is not thoroughly understood,
nor appreciated.
During the time between now and
, killing frost, the boll weevils
will continue to lay eggs, tp feed
the cotton, to develope into
grabs, pupae and a constant hitch
|<VS t >d B 5*8,IS 45 w 5
Ing frost, the greater the number
number of weevils In this county
nre Increasing nt a rate almost
beyond human conception. Rlncs
nil of the top crop is gone, farm
ers naturally have stop thinking
about fighting tho weevil ns fa r as
this crop Is concerned, but what
nbout next year? It Is a simple
fact that tho greater the number
of weevils present nt the first kill
ing fro*, the greater tho number
that will be present next spring.
He raiser, corn not only for his The weevils’ that batch out dur-
own use. but has It for sale, and *"* ^ two we * k * ^ u§t *>®fore
his crop will average 30 or *5 bu-J the *«>* comes hav# the
she!# p. r acre. IIo plants a pro-} < be«t chance to go through th«
liflc variety of corn. This year in j winter.
spite of rust, his wheat niado 16Hl M destroying the stalks duri
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j brfii offioo oj nAuoil i M
Reduced Rates To Atlanta
Account
Southeastern Fair
Tickets on sale October 5th to 12th. Final
;:^l October 15th, 1923.
One and One Half; Fares for the Round Trip
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I 11 , J. P. niLLIUPS, G. P. A,
9 Atlanta and Weak. Point Railroad jCo* Western Railway
of Alabama, Georgia Railroad.
the first 15 days of October therj
will be no weevils hatching out 1*!
these ".I** on which the stalk* j
are destroyed and the wevviU
that are adult now will search fo»
other fields of cotton. This is the
reason why the destruction of cot-
•ton stalks during the month of
October is so effective In lessen
ing vhe wettvil emergency sux!
spring. Thre are some cotton
fields which all of the cotton can
be picked next week, still mors
which will .have all of the bolls
oiyn the following week, The de-
stractioii of the stalks on thess
fields, either by ripping up oi
turning under or some other meth'
od—the principal thing .is to dS' -
itroy the' stalks nnd prevent the
production of green sprouts or
bloom, Is very deslrabl?. Blues
Clarke county fsrmers have waged
one of the most determlnod fights
against the weevils that any coun
ty has ever put on, why not star!
the next fight early, thereby, stand
a much better chance to make s
cotton crop next kear and lessen
the cost of poisoning next season.
The sowing of osts as near to
October 15th as Is practicable is ths
best timing of this crop in this
county. Experiments running over
s , period of eight years at the Ag
rlcultural College here show that
ths same variety on the same soil
October 16 each yesr ay *
erase 47 bushels per acre,while tht,
same variety on the same sol J,sown
on November 15 averaged 19 .and a
half bushels; In sowing oats It Is
BOLL WEEVIL CONFERENCE
New Orleans, La.
October 25th—26th, 1923.
One and one-half fares for the round trip.
The Boll Weevil Menace is a subject of great
importance to farmers and commercial in
terests alike and this meeting will be held
under the auspices of the Louisiana Bank
ers Association; A very large attendance is
expected. ‘
For further information as to rates and
Pullman reservations, apply to local ticket
agent, or
J P. BILLUPS, G. P A.,
/Atlanta and West Point Railroad Co., The
Western Railway of Alabama,
.Georgia Railroad
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