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The Douglas Enterprise
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
Established 1888
Published Every Friday By
The Enterprise Publishing Company
\V. R. Frier, Editor
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR COFFEE COUNTY
I Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under Act of Congress of Meh. 8. 1879
Mpmt er:—Georgia Press Association and Eleventh
| District Press Association. : : :
FIGHT THE TWIN COTTON PESTS.
Cotton growers afe warned by agricultural
department heads here and in other states to
fight twin pests—the boll weevil and the cotton
hopper or flea. Both pests are beginning to
make inroads into the growing plants, it was
stated. Two kinds of poisons are recommended
to rout the double destroyers of portions of the
South’s great crop.
“There’s nothing better than calcium arse
nate to kill the boll weevil, and as for the cotton
hopper or flea, well, he gives up the ghost if the
farmer will “say it with flowers of sulphur’’,
said an expert of the A. B. & A. railway agricul
tural department, who is constantly advising
farmers along the line of road on all matters
connected with farming.
The expert pointed out that no one can tell
what will happen to a cotton crop and since the
weevil and the flea become a threart to cotton
production, the only safe plan is to keep up the
fight against them even if one thinks that no
weevils or fleas are likely to appear.
There is sufficient time to check any great
progress the weevil or the flea may make in
Georgia, according to agricultural experts, but
it is considered most important that a close
watch be kept on the cotton fields for the first
appearance of the pests and when they do ap
pear it is especially important that prompt work
should be started it is especially important that
prompt work should be started to eliminate
their threat, it was shown.
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GEORGIA’S REAL CASH MONEY CROP.
Not counting our corn crop, ranking next to
cotton, with the values of $42,000,000 approxi
mately in 1925, the greater part of which was
fed on the farms of the State, tobacco bids fair
an 192 G to crowd peaches out of second place as
Georgia’s real cash money crop, with an esti
mated value of approximately $10,000,000.
While peaches have required 25 years to
give this crop high rank in the economic history
of Georgia agriculture and make the Georgia
peach famous throughout the world, tobacco as
a commercial crop has won her spurs in reality
within less than ten years and it is not stretch
ing the truth to say that Georgia’s rare combi
nation of soil and climate have given the Em
pire State first place from the standpoint of
quality, and therefore in price, and at the same
time a great advantage over other tobacco
growing section of the United States in dura
tion of marketing season.
Forty-fyur warehouses in twenty-two
Georgia towns wil handle Georgia’s estimated
40,000,000 lbs. of tobacco in 1926, while two
large re-drying paints, one at Tiftoi. and one at
Douglas, will be engaged in a refinement of the
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weed for the manufacturer. The establishment
of a tobacco experiment station by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture in connection with the
Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station at
Tifton is a valuable factor in the permanent es
tblishment of the tobacco industry in Georgia.
The year 1926 finds approximately 1,000
experienced tobacco growers from the Carolinas,
Kentucky, Virginia and other tobacco growing
states adding their experience to the natural
advantages of soil, elimarte and market possess
ed by Georgia, in making outstanding acreage
yields while our own Georgia growers, under
the guidance of trained agents employed by the
warehouses and railroads, are gaining a profic
iency that is bringing yields on the farms of
our native Georgians inlto the same high class
with those of the farmers from the older to
bacco states.
The pre-Revolutionary war period found
tobacco being grown in various parts of Georgia
for private use. Eearly settlers in Georgia
grew tobacco of high quality for home consump
tion but commercial growing began in Coffee
County n 1913 experimentally, as a by-product
of the invasion of the bool weevil. In 1913 the
Agricultural Department of the A. B. & A. Rail
road pioneered in the establishment on a com
mercial basis of this great cash crop in Coffee
County in the neighborhood of Nicholls. They
were soon joined in this work by agents of the
Georgia & Florida Railroad and la/ter by the
forces of the Georgia State College of Agricul
ture and other agencies interested in the agri
cultural development of the staJte. The first to
bacco warehouse was built in Douglas in 1917
and from this beginning the present forty-four
warehouses have been added within a period of
'line years, and most of them constructed dur
ing the feist three years.
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NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
It is significant that the recently suspended
banks in Georgia were of a group and the group
was not operated under the national banking
laws, and none of the banks closed were a mem
ber of the Federal Reserve System.
It is not reflection upon Georgia and need
be no handicap to business prosperity in- this
state that a number of small, virtually private
banks close their doors, is the opinion of busi
ness men in the state. It perhaps may be a
good thing for Georgia bunking and for the
towms in which the closed banks were located to
have their business affairs adjusted by the state
banking department, it was pointed out. Their
reorganization upon a sound financial basis
doubtless will follow such adjustment of their
affairs, it is claimed.
Always there is a reason for such failures
sa those occurring in Georgia, especially when
the failures come during a season of prosperity
and at a time when such institutions should be
adding to their strength. In the case of the
Georgia banks it appears that the trouble lies
in the fact that collateral on which funds were
loaned decreased in value. The connection of
the Georgia failures with the Florida real estate
boom is indicated since the parent bank in At
lanta failed when a receivership was asked for
a Florida bank with which it is said to have had
large dealings.
The banks of Georgia, as a whole, are in
better and sounder condition now than they
have ever been in the history of banking in this
state, Atlanta bankers assert.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, AUG. 6, 1926.
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