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$2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1922. . Established in 1891.
Big Boost For
Cooperative Plan
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Cooperative marketing of tobacco
received) a great boost in Bamberg
county last -Thursday when Mr.
Rogers, of Virginia, addressed a big
mass meeting of citizens at the court
house. Following the meeting, the
local warehouseman of the Tobacco
Growers Cooperative association
k signed up about 125 acres of tobacco,
involving approximately 100,000
pounds of the weed to be sold
through the marketing association.
TJie campaign continues for a few
davs lonser before it will be closed,
and many others are signing as they
are seen by Mr. Lane, the warehouseman.
The meeting was called to order
by A. M. Brabham, secretary and
* treasurer of 'the Farmers Tobacco
Warehouse company, which warehouse
is a member of the association.
Mr. Brabham introduced Mr.
Rogers, whose address was the most
busfness-like of any heard in Bamberg
in a long time. The speaker
was thoroughly conversant with his
subject, and a great deal of his time
was taken in answering questions
from the audience. In each instance
his reply was instantaneous and
clear. Mr. Offut, of Kentucky, was
to have been in Bamberg, but at the
last moment was sent to Mullins instead.
Mr. Rogers urged t?e tobacco
, \ growers of this county to line up
with the association, which he believes
is the only salvation for the
tobacco producer. He said that the
old ^ystem of auctioning tobacco is
on its last legs, and that he had an
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auiuuriutuve aiaicuicub uum uuv
who knew that those interested in
the old system were holding on this
year believing it is their last ehance
with the hope that they will "make
a killing." However, Mr. Rogers
>. does not blame these independent k
warehouses nor the tobacco buyers.
It is nothing more than human to buy
as cheaply/as possible. "You growers
are the ones to blame," said he.
He explained the system of selling
through the association in considerable
detail, and stated that cooperative
selling is not a holding proposition;
that tobacco will not be stored
^ and held unless there is an overproduction,
in which case the association
expects to plhce on the market
only enough tobacco to supply the
demands of the tobacco purchasers.
; Any over-production will be redried
* and stored until a more favorable
market exists. In the event of a
continued over-production, all memhers
of -the association will- share
alike the slump in prices on all stored,
tobacfro.
The association is in position to advance
substantially on all tobacco
of its members, he said. Tobacco is
* graded by an association grader
> when it is brought to the warehouse,
and a warehouse certificate is issued.
This certificate will be recognized
by any bank. The government
has officially recognized the association
by making a loan of $30,000,000
to it, the largest agricultural loan in
the history of the world, said Mr.
Rogers.
The working of the association in
Kentucky and Virginia, where organization
was pretty thorough last
season, had been eminently successful.
In the former state growers in
the association had received for their
tobacco in excess of 29c per pound
* average, while non-members had re'
n
ceivea aoout average. ah icsaiu
to the cost of selling, Mr. Rogers
said that statistics show association
r members paid less than one-half the
commissions that non-members paid
last year. He added that all the talk
about enormous salaries of association
officers was bosh; that the executive
officers were practically giv}
ing their time to the marketing sys- L
tern without cost.
The fact 'was mentioned that in
\ South Carolina where there was no
organization last year tobacco had
, sold for an average of 11c per pound
?it was five cents in Bamberg?and
it was 24c in North Carolina. Bamberg
county had lost on its half million'
pounds of tobacco more than
, $100,000 through, lack of orderly
marketing.
.figures were quoted to snow tnat
of 31 years of tobacco growing in
North Carolina, the producers had
/ operated at a loss 16 years; broke
even 10 years, and had made a profit ,
five years. There is no reason for
these losses; the grower is entitled
to a profit on his product every year,
j and it is for this very purpose that
the association was organized. Cooperative
marketing in California I
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STILL WILL FACE TRIAL. ^
Mother-in-Law Accuses Barnwell
Man of Killing Barnie IHamond.
Barnwell, June 30.?Milton Still,
a white farmer, who lives a few miles
from this city, has been arrested on a
a warrant charging him with the ^
murder of Barnie Diamond 18 years
ago. s<
The ar-.'pst id qairJ to have resulted P
from a difficulty between Still and
;his brother-in-law, Frank Owens, ti
about ten days ago, at which time a
the latter shot Still in the leg. Still w
had Owens arrested ' whereupon \-c
Owens's mother, .Mrs. M. A. Owens, 1
divulged information which led to o
the arrest of Still on the charge of
murder. 2
From the best information avail- ^
able, it seems that the evidence
against Still is very meager, as no p
eyewitnesses to the alleged murder p
can be located. In May, 1904, the j
body of Barnie Diamond was found a
lying by the Southern railway tracks
about two miles south of Barnwell, v
and it was thought he had been killed
by a train during the night. On 1
the night of his death Mrs. Owens c<
was at the home of Milton still, her
son-in-law, and now states that she 9
heard cries and the sound of blows tj
coming from the house of a white
woman named Mamie Phillips, who
lived just across the railroad track
from StiH's home. Mrs. Owens, it is
understood, charges . that Diamond
was killed at the Phillips' hpuse and
his body placed on the track by Still
in an effort to hide his alleged crime.
CROCKER GETS LIFE SENTENCE.
Jury Recommends Mercy to Slayer of
T XT Horic
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Columbia, July 1.?"Guilty, with
recommendation to mercy" was the
verdict returned last evening by the
jury which had heard the testimony
in the case against John Watt? p
Crocker, who was tried in the court
of general sessions on the charge of p
murdering the Rev. John Vincent
Davis, well known minister, and, at t
the time of his death, superintendent
of the Richland county home, of g
which Crocker was an inmate. The 0
tragedy occurred May 28. C
The echo of the words of the ver- p
diet had hardly died in the court ^
room when Judge Townsend, after S)
asking Crocker if he had anything to n
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tive, sentenced the prisoner to serve g
the remainder of his life in the state ^
penitentiary. The convicted man, af- y
ter asking for his hat, was at once 0
taken from the court room and fcpent
the night at the county jail. Today
he will be transferred to the state
penitentiary to begin the service of
'his. life sentence. Crocker is 64 years
of age. The Rev. Mr. Davis was 72 S(
at the time of his death. 0
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MOVEMENT OF MELONS. x
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Carload Lots Being Shipped Out v
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From Fairfax. d
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Fairfax, June 28.?Watermelons b
from this section have commenced to y
move. J. E. Johnston and Luther n
Barber loaded a car of thirty-four- f<
pound average melons Monday and n
Julius Gray loaded a car of large e
melons Tuesday. These care were c
handled by the Fairfax Melon Grow- g
ers' Association. This association r?
will probably handle more than 400 d
carloads of melons during the next w
sixty days. The acreage to melons p
in this section is larger than usual, t]
but on account of too much rain, g
some hail and in many cases lack of
a sufficient quantity of fertilizer, it is p
not likely that more than half a crop d
of marketable melons will be made, a:
The corn crop is very good, and the
cotton crop, too, is improving, but p;
the stands are bad and boll weevils jz
are aireauv uecumiiig uumeiwua. ei
Notwithstanding these drawbacks, a:
the farmers are working hard. Some bi
of the well-to-do farmers are using u
two-horse dusting machines in ap- ti
plying calcium arsenate; others are
using smaller machines, and some
are picking up and destroying the
punctured squares. The weather
during the last few days has been
favorable for cotton and the indica- F
tions are that considerably more cot- a
ton will be produced in this section d;
this year than was produced here last M
year. The acreage to peanuts in this tc
section is smaller than last year, but | B
this crop is looking very promising. It
had resulted in reducing the percent- f
age of farms under mortgage from u,
60 per cent, to two per cent. sj.
July 10th is the last day on which te
tobacco growers may sign up with
the association.
Cotton Forecast
11 Million Bales
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Washington, July 3.?Prospects of
larger cotton crop than last year
ere seen in the first forecast of the
sason announced today by the deartment
of agriculture.
The yield estimated on the condion
of the crop June 25, was forecast
t 11,065,000 bales which compares
ith a production of 7,953,641 bales
ist year; 1?,439,603 bales in 1920,
1,420,763 bales in 1919, and 12,40,532
bales in 1918.
The condition of the crop on June
5 was 71.2 per cent, of normal, an
nprovement over the report issued
le month previous When it was
laced at 69.6. The condition comares
with 69.2 per cent, on June 25,
921, and with the ten-year June 25,
verage of 76.9.
The acreage devoted to cotton this
ear was placed by the department
t 34.852.000 acres, an increase of
0 per cent, over the area planted to
Dtton last year.
The area under cultivation June
5, and the condition of the crop on
lat date by states follows:
Virginia?Acreage 51,000, condion
85 per cent.
North Carolina?1,601,000 and 76.
South Carolina?2,230,000 and 60.
Georgia?4,129,000 and 58.t
Florida?122,000 and 75.
Alabama?2,995,000 and 68.
Mississippi?3,200,000 and 76.
Louisiana?1,311,000 and 69.
Texas?12,312,000 and 72.
Arkansas?2,853,000 and 80.
Tennessee?r-819,000 and 83.
Missouri?156,000 and 92.
Oklahoma?2,840,000* and 76.
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uainornia?ziu,uuu ana 31.
Arizona?105,000 and 85.
New Mexico?46,000 and 85.
ARDON RECORD OP GOVERNORS
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igures Secured at Request of "A
Voter."
o the Editor of The State:
Some of us have gotten into an arument
as to the pardoning records
f Governor Blease and Governor
ooper, some contend;ng that Cooper
ardoned nearly as m^ny as Blease.
s it might be of peculiar interest to
Dme of your readers to have* their
lemory refreshed as to some of our
ast history I would appreciate your
iving us the pardoning records of
oth governors, and ask also, that
ou quote the proper authorities in
rder to settle our controversy.
"A VOTER."
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Kinards. ?
The State has obtained the desired
lformation from the records at the
Bcretary of state's office and from
ther reliable sources. The records
how that Governor Blease granted
,708 pardons, paroles and commuta- j
ions of sentences during his four
ears as governor against 303 parons,
paroles, commutations of sendees
and restorations of citizenship
y Governor Cooper during the three
ears and four months he was goveror.
These figures may contain a
3w duplications, but ther are very
early accurate. In the 1.7Q8 grantd
by Governor Blease are not inluded
a large number of pardons
ranted to some persons he had aisady
paroled under his "blanket paron"
granted a short time before he
ent out of office. In this "blanket
ardon" Governor Blease restored all
le persons he had paroled during
ood behavior to citizenship. Governor
Cooper's record was 203
aroles during good behavior, 12 parons,
63 restorations of citizenship
nd 25 commutations of sentences.
Governor Manning granted 217
ardons, paroles, restorations of cit:$nship
and commutations of sentaces
during his four years, divided
3 follows: 157 paroles during good
ehavior, seven pardons, 20 commuitions
of sentences and 24 restoraons
of citizenship.?Columbia State.
To Sue Town.
Walterboro, June 29.?Notice has
een filed with Messrs, Howell &
ishburne, the town's attorneys, of
otroinct Wnlfprhorn for $10,000 I
un/ T
images, the suit being entered by j
rs. Adalaide B. Shokes, of Charles>n,
through her attorneys, Whaley, j
arnwell & Grimball. of Charleston.
is alleged that Mrs. Shokes. while
.1 a visit to a relative in Walterboro,
dl over a pile of stringers being
sed to build a sidewalk, from which
le suffered injuries, etc., to the exnt
of the sum asked.
Renew your subscription today.
FALL ASLEEP OX TRACK.
Two Men Killed and Another Badly
injured by Train.
Sumter, July 4.?Ben and William
Brewer were killed outright and William
C. McLeod was badly injured
when struck Sunday night by a
froin A? + V*& A C* T. roilrnoH
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company at Broadway's siding, between
Sumter and Pinewood. All of
the parties are white men of the Pinewood
neighborhood. Mr. McLeod's
leg was broken in two place and be is
now in the Tomey hospital for treatment.
From the testimony adduced
at the coroner's inquest today, William
C. McLeod, the only surviving
member, testified that about 10 o'clock
Sunday night he and the two
Brewer boys were sitting on the railroad
track and all were drinking.
He said that the Brewer boys stretched
out on the track and in a few minutes
were fast asleep. The first he
knew of the accident was when he
awoke, finding himself to the side
of the track, having been knocked
off the track. He said that he did
not realize he was hurt until he tried
trt eet iiD and found a numbness in
j his limbs. He was about eight or
ten feet from the track when he
I awoke. After hearing the evidence
the jury brought in a verdict that
Ben Brewer and William Brewer
came to their death on July 2, 1922,
j by being run over by an A. C. L.
freight train. It is said that the
j bodies of the dead men were badly
mangled and mutilated. The plight
of the injured man and the discovery
of the two dead men was'made
early this morning just prior to the
time for the regular passenger train
from Augusta to pass this siding.
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HARVEY WINS SUIT.
j Verdict for Plaintiff for $6,500?Jury
Out All Xight at Barnwell.
j Barnwell, July 1.?After deliberatj
ing all night, the jury in the case of
[ W. L. Harvey vs. Southern Railway
company brought in the verdict at
7:30 o'clock this morning for the
plaintiff in the amount of 6,500. This
was a suit for $200,000 for the death
of Mrs. Daisy Harvey, wife of the
plaintiff, at a crossing in the lower
part of Barnwell county on June 7,
1921.
The plaintiff contended that the
buggy in which Mrs. Harvey was riding
was on the crossing at the time
the train approached and in turning
the buggy from the crossing to prevent
a collision with the train, Mrs.
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.Harvey ien out ui me ?emwc, uci
leg1 being caught in the front wheel.
The mule ran away and Mrs. Harvey
received injuries which resulted in
her death a week later at a Columbia
hospital;
The defendant cbntended that the
mule and buggy was in the road as
the train passed, at least 75 feet from
the crossing and that the signal
statute did not apply.
HIGH PRICES NO HELP.
Melons Bring From Seventy Cents
to One Dollar and 4 Half.
New York, July 1.?Watermelons
for which Georgia growers are glad
to get from three to 17? cents each
are selling in the retail markets here
at 70 cents to $1.50, said a statement
issued today by Herschel S.
Jones, director of the state department
of farms and markets.
High freight rates, almost equally
Viitrh mt+qco r?hnrp-pc and the bit
Ul&i* VMr* VM-QV
taken in turn by four middlemen,
make up the difference, he said. The
freight cost is about 17 cents a melon
and the cartage cost for transporting
the melons from the receiving
station at Karney, N. J., is about
I eight cents.
The four middlemen get the rest.
The high prices are causing the
melons to move very slowly in the
New York market, he said, despite a
campaign ihis department has been
trying to induce New Yorkers to help
the Georgia farmers out with their
bumper crop by eating lots of melons.
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Postmaster at Cope.
Cope. July 3.?J. Ashlow Antlev,
V ?.nfifmnd tn an for
pUSLIIlilSLCI , lid V 111^ icsifilicu IU tuwvi
the race for clerk of court. TV. M.
Ritter, was appointed to fill the place
until the office could be supplied
through the regular channels. A
civil service examination was held at
Orangeburg July 1, and the following
stood the examination:
TV. TI. Ritter, incumbent; Jerome
Garick and R. K. Henery. of Cope;
Mrs. Meet? and Olin F. Hunt of the
Fork section, and a lady from
Orangeburg.
600 Bales On
25
800Acres Land
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The old weevils, that emerge from ^
winter quarters can be successfully
controlled by the early dusting of Cl
cotton with calcium-arsenate, it has E
been demonstrated under actual b
farm conditions on the plantation S
of J. S. Cowart, of Arlington, Ga., v
according to Director J. X. Harper, "
of the soil improvement committee,
Director Harper attended the a
demonstration held on this farm
the pa:;t week and has returned to e
AHon+o onth neifl atip nvpr the Slip- ^
xx^xaii ta v v* v ? w
cess which has attended the meth- t:
od that he has so strongly advo- a
cated and w'hich was presented to the
public through James A. Hollomon's i]
series of articles in The Constitution s
this spring. , D
The boll weevil work on the Cow- s
art plantation is under the direction *
of Dr. J. H. DeLoach, formerly di- ?
rector of the Georgia experiment *
station. Dr. DeLoach was so strongly
convinced of the success of his ef- *
forts during the past spring that he 3
Lheld a field demonstration of these
methods last week. Mr. Harper re- *
ports that over 150 leading farmers c
and landowners were present, and c
that all were favorably impressed
with the results that have been obtained
to date. Representatives from P
southwest Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina were present to study 11
the situation and many of them left &
enthusiastic over the possibilities e
shown as to proper weevil control. *
Ait the time the meeting was held
the cotton was between knee and
waist high, according to Dr. Harper's i]
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report, ana was iuu 01 u un. iu taut
he states that he has never seen 1
better fruited cotton in all his years D
of experience. Many of the stalks ^
had- from four to ten half-grown v
, bolls, from twenty to thirty squares b
and were flowering freely. a
Used Arsenate Early.
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Indications were that the heavy
boll weevil infestation of the early
season and had been put under complete
control. The poisoning opera- D
tion was under the direction of Dr. ^
DeLoacfh. He had an early applica- ^
tion of calcium-arsenate just made t
when the cotton was two to four
inches high. This was applied to ^
the little plants with a homemade
device. ?
The first few applications cost very c
little, as one man could easily go o
over five to six acres a day, and only i<
about one pound of calcium-arsenate t
was used per acre. f
On the day the demonstration was I
held every kind of machine that is
now used ror applying caicium-arsenate
was put into operation. There t
were handguns, muleback machines a
all going at once. The muleback ma- e
chine seemed to be the popular one' e
with the majority of those present. \
Dr. DeLoach has used only calcium- a
arsenate in the dust form. The ap- .
plications were made in the early c
morning and late afternoon when s
*there was dew on the plants. 1
The Webber variety of cotton was i
planted, the seed having been ob- D
tained from South Carolina. e
With the present condition of the r
crop, if the'fight can be continued
successfully, at least three-fourths s
bale' per acre will be made. i
Tells Methods Used. i
The methods employed by Dr. De- t
Loach and Mr. Cowart have been out- a
lined by Director Harper as follows:
"The acreage devoted to .cotton e
was reduced to about ten acres to s
the plow. The seed bed was prepar- ?
ed early in the spring, and the land t
plowed.deeper than usual. The cot- i
ton was planted early in April and P
was fertilized with 400 pounds per
acre of a 9-4-2, this being followed I
by a side application of 25 pounds F
of a fertilizer analyzing 7 1-2 per s
cent, phosphoric acid, and 10 per a
cent, nitrogen. De. DeLoach finds t
that the phosphoric acid has hasten- v
ed the setting of the fruit and the ?
nitrogen is giving ample stalk o
growth. o
"Mr. Cowart said that weather c
conditions had not been favorable as P
for three weeks they had constant
rain. At one time he thought he d
would not make any cotton. a
"The boll weevils came out in o
abundance in the early spring, and j u
. oo oc! cnimrpi; hp?an tn fnrm. ! ti
t ^
! started puncturing them. These h
punctured squares were gathered o
and destroyed. In fact, Dr. De- b
Loach believes that picking up the t
squares has been at least 60 per P
cent, of the fight. v
"The whole demonstration is on a n
practical farm basis and not upon v
a pet patch plan. The plantation v
MOVE TO DISMISS APPEAL.
X
olicitor Gasque Wants Supreme
Court to Act Under Xew Rule.
Columbia, June 30.?Solicitor L.
r. Gasque, of Florence, is expected ' %
d make a motion before the supreme
ourt for a dismissal of the appeal of
lamuna ju. ingnam, now in tne deatn
ouse at the penitentiary, on the
round that the court has already reiewed
the question of fact involved
i the case and the solicitor predicts
hat the -court will grant his motion
nd throw out the appeal.
Recently the supreme court adopt- ~ /
d a new rule whereby it refuses to
eview a question of fact as disinguished
from a question of law
nd judiciary discretion, once the
Dwer. court has passed on the facts
a the premises. Under this rule the
olicitor may move, after ten days 1
LOtice to the attorney on the other ? rj
ide of the case, to discuss the moion
the motion for a new trial and
et an answer without waiting for
lie tedious processes of the court.
"I intend to advise the state of
his rule," the solicitor says "if the
upreme court follows the rule it has
aid down, as there is no reason to
hink it would not do, the Bigham
ase will not hang in the supreme
ourt a year longer.''
A. L. King, attorney for Bigham,
ded formal notice of intention to apeal
last week. He has forty days
q which to perfect his notice to disliss
the appeal. If Bigham thus loses
lis appeal he will have to be resent- .
need. > :
Look For Man; Find Oow.
Greenwood, July 4.?While Sher- /
Ef E. M. White and Coroner P. T. N
"aulkner stood ready Saturday for %
he uncovering of the grewsome reaains
of a murdered man, a grave
iscovered by excited passersby in a
rood near Greenwood yielded up a
ody bearing two\horns and hoofs,--,
body that proved to be the corpse * .
f Buttercup, a Jersey cow buried
ome time before by A. B. Outzs, her
orrowful owner.
The discovery of the grave caused
onsiderable excitement in the comaunity
where it was found. Reports
rere rife that a man had been murlered
in the woods there and hadieen
buried by night. The proper
fficers were notified at once and the
iody disinterred, only to prove the
orpse of a cow. .
onsists of 6,000 acres, about 800
>i which are planted to cotton, and
5 farmed by seventy tenants. Eac!h
enant has a prominent part in the
Lg-ht being made by Mr. Cowart and
)r. DeLoach."
No Longer Fear Weevil.
Mr. Harper states further that he
alked with some of these tenants,
,nd from the results thus far obtained,
they are enthusiastic as any one
lse. One old darkey said that he
ras not afraid of the boll weevil
,ny more.
From present indications, the crop J
if cotton on these 800 acres will be
aved at a cost of about $4 per acre.
rhree * applications of the poison
lave alreadv been made and two
nore will probably be necessary to
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Kmtrol the weevil during the renainder
of the season.
"*r? TT ? .iA flVl ATlfl rtllfi
ivir. narper xuai tuc wuvtanding
point of the demonstration
s that it proves the profitable growng
of cotton to be entirely within
he limits of the ability of the aver,ge
cotton farmer.
It is apparent that the cotton farmt
will eventually surmount this inect
difficulty in the same manner in
t'hich other farmers have overcome
he ravages' of insects and diseases
n the growing of the crops such as
eaches, apples or potatoes. *
"This demonstration," says Mr.
iarper, "has impressed many imiortant
farmers from all parts of the
outheast. It has given an importnt
lesson and an incentive to follow
he methods used on this farm and
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mien H3.VB UBGX1 aUYUUclLGU \jy cue;
;overnment and state departments
f agriculture of the different states
f the southeast in order to bring the % >
'j?
otton crop through this .year with
rofitable yields.
'"From these pioneer cotton pro- *
ucers, under new conditions brought
bout by the boll weevil, the methds
necessary to be used will spread
ntil they reach each progressive coton
farmer. There will, of course,
e some who will drift with the tide
f circumstances making what the
oil weevil and weather allow, but
hese will in no way be able to comete
with these progressive growers
*ho produce cotton by improved
lethods. The methods of course, inolve
a "rigid fight on the boll weeils."-?Aalanta
Constitution.
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