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The Newnan herald
v.tawvAN HERALD I Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1886. 1
Established 1866. f Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1915. I
NEWNAN, GA* FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1921.
Vol. 56—No. 25
HE SAW, I SAW.
Under a walnut tree they sat;
Ho held her hand, she held his hat;
1 held my breath anil lay quite tint—
They kiBsed; I saw ’em do itl
Ho held that, kissing was no crime,
She held her mouth up every time,
I held my peace ami wrote tills rhyme;
Thev never knew I know it.
Communicated.
WHAT THE SOUTHERN FARMER
MUST DO.
Mr. Editor: I have just returned from
an extended trip through South Caro
lina, Georgia, and Middle and East Ala
bama. 1 talked with many formers and
business men on my trip, nnd can truth-
fully say that I have never in all my
life seen people so "up in the air" as
to how they shall proceed with their
farming operations this year.
I have studied the situation more
■closely than ever before, and am going
to sound n warning now. If tho far
mers do not heed this warning they are
going to be sorry for it.
There is enough cotton now on hand
to Am the mills of the world for twenty-
four months. You will notice it has de
clined from 42 to 11 cents in six months,
and all the cotton people say it will go
to 8 cents by the first of Mny. With
a big crop this year it will sell at .'1 and-
4 cents next October. Now, what is the
use of buying fertilizers, planting an
other big-crop of cotton and mnko it at
a loss of more than 10 cents a pound,
and then not be nble to sell the crop we
have on hand for one-tliird of its cost.'
What is tho remedy ? We have had
.all kinds of advice, from evory source,
and by the best talent in all the land,
and yet I see on every hand evidence of
another big cotton acreage this year.
Nearly nil the land I saw was prepared
for cotton. It would be better if
the land werp allowed to grow up in
weeds this year than be planted in cot
ton.
I was talking to a gentleman in Geor
gia, who said he runs twelve plows. Ho
now has on hand two cotton crops, nnd
yet has no feedstuff at all on his plan
tation. I asked wlmt ho was going to do,
and he said ho was going to plant overy
acre of that place in cotton, even the
front yard and garden, for, said he,
"This is the last year we can make lot-
ton, on arcount of the boll weevil. ’ ’ I
told him tliis year would ruin him.
A comparison of conditions in our sec
tion with some of the country through
which I traveled convinces mo that all
cotton will ruin nny country. Here wo
have been diversifying for five years.
You might stop the trains from coining
to Enterprise, Ozark nnd Genova for
six months, and we would not suffer for
anything to eat.
It is true that we lmvo lmd to sacri
fice our peanut crop this year, but look
at the hogs we have grown,and.fattened
on peanuts. I have one customer who
paid me last Friday $1,400 out of his
hog crop, grown on a two-horse farm.
Ho has plenty of everything to run his
farm this year, which he does with his
■•own children, and no hired help at all.
Why don’t you Georgia people cut
■out your cotton crop this year, not buy
a pound of fertilizer, plant everything
in corn and peanuts and. raise hogs, and
let the boll weevil starve one year; then
hold your cotton until next year nnd get
■ cost and interest for carrying it over?
Peanuts will not need any fertilizer; you
can make from 50 to 75,bushels to the
acre where you had corn and cotton last
year without the use of a Bingle pound
of commercial fertilizer.
Peanuts will bring a good price next
fall and winter. Why do £ say so?
We are sure to get a 4-cent-per-po,und
•duty on all imported peanuts, and that
will stop importations entirely. Last
year the Orient shipped 100,000 tons of
peanuts to this country, besides the oil.
If you do not want to gather your
peanuts put them into hog hides. Be
cent statements made to the Government
by the packers of the country ’bIiow that
we are facing a hog famine. They say
■we are nineteen million hogs short of
two years -ago, and that there is not
enough meat in cold storage to last fif
teen days. This being true, how do you
■expect to overdo the hog business?
When you can get $16 each for a bunch
of 8-months-old pigs that perhaps have
never eaten an ear of corn, don’t you
think that will beat cotton at 8 cents per
pound? If you let your hogs cat your
peanuts in the field you would not have
touse fertilizer at all, nnd your land
would get richer every year.
H. M. Sessions,
Enterprise, Ala., Feb. 28, 1921.
MONEY IN SWEET POTATOES FOR
THE SOUTH.
Atlanta, Gn., March 2.—Sweet pota
toes could be made to yield a much
larger money return to Southern far
mers if there were sufficient curing and
storage houses in the producing sections,
says the general agricultural agent of
the Southern railway, Roland Turner.
"There is a growing demand for
Southern sweet potatoes from consumers
outside of the South as well as in the
Southern cities,” declures Mr. Turner,
"and this crop can be made to bring
much money to Southern farmers if fa
cilities can be provided for storing and
curing the potatoes so that marketing
can be spread over the greater part of
the year instead of being confined to
the harvesting season. Plenty of sweet
potatoes are grown in the South, but
sufficient attention has not been given
to the marketing feature and to proper
grading. Several years ago the'Southern
railway, aided in introducing the South
ern sweet potato into Northern markets,
and this and similar efforts have create.?
a demand which is not now 1 icing sup
plied. ’ ’
t'ouug Sailor—"On my last voyage I
r waves 40 feet high. ’ ’
)Id Salt—"Get out. I was at sea
50 years and never saw ’em that
(ouag Sailor—"Well, things
her now than they used to be.''
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