A ee iy EUGENE.TA PUBLISHED BY THE BUREAU OF MARKETSA. D. JONES, peparrment off ae: * POE PIE pane 21) AGRICULTURE / COMMISSIONERS a id = y a aes r DIRECTOR STATE CAPITOL ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930. _ well ang shaped right. __the average. . ~ rain on the cotton = = ~ On July Georgia. It was extremely dry in that whole terri- tory. I never saw cleaner crops. The cotton was small but. fruiting _from now on North, Georgia should make a good cotton crop. Most corn was too much damaged to be helpeg by this rain in _. North Georgia. _ Of course there were bottom fields of corn that did not Suffer for moisture, that were good. _ es On the whole, I would say that North Georgias present prospects. for cotton were good, its prospects for corn and hay crops. are below _. T-have made a trip to Thomasville in Southwest Georgia recently, and also weekly trips into Southeast Georgia all the spring. It was in _ a cotton field in Telfair County Sunday where the cotton was over waist high and bolled up nearly to the top. I saw very little weevil damage. ae It was wilted down from the excessive heat that we were having and nearly everybody thought we needed rain. I did not think we needed but I have hearg this morning that wei got it last See . Cotton, South of Macon, does not do much after the 15th; of July, this is on account of the boll weevil. Prior to the advent of the boll | _ weevil of course cotton would work on until the middle of August. Since we have had the boll weevil we have to make a quick, flush crop. = This has been done over most of South Georgia. -- around the middle of August. eeweps = _ you will have gotten rid of a whole lot of seed. I understand the rain is general. In South Georgia some of us - will plough the cotton again. I think it does good. I know it does ita ~ to hoe out any grass and weeds that are in the drill. Where your cotton 4s inclinea to be too growthy, top it. It wont make any more bolls on the cotton but it will make those that are there mature better. You --ean-also pick your cotton better where it is topped. : North, Georgia will of course continue ploughing their cotton until The general a = vee ae comes about a month later in North Georgia than it does in Sow iia. The little red galls will turn to cotton in North) @eorgia if it is hot) enough and not too dry. ; 2h Now is the time to hoe the weeds down from around your crop. Watch out for sand spurs. Hoe aroung the stumps ang fences. If you do this you wont be bothered with so many weeds next year because 4 Hitch up ta the wagon, drive aroung the fields, and gather up all 1 -. the plough tools that are lying around. You will need that old. dis- tributor, plough stock, hoe, etc., next year. Put them under a good dry shelter. It will pay you to buy.a lock too ang put it on the door. The outlook for crops in Georgia is good. What about the prices? - We have just phoned ,for the market. July-cotton is quoted today ab 12.90. | I received a letter from a farmer last week who wanted to ship - some cotton to the Cooperative and draw on it. I immediately called up the Georgia Cotton Growers Cooperative Association and they stated that their loans on cotton were seven cents for the better grades a y 4th I drove from Atlanta through Norcross, Buford, and on up to Gainesville, It is raining today ang with favorable seasons. 2 and five cents on, the lower grades. They also said that if cotton went up they could make an additional loan. They also stated that they would take cotton now on the optional.pool. That means for the far- ~ > aS mer to sell when he wishes. _ . Twelve cents a pound for cotton! A new crop coming on..We will _ be selling cotton in Georgia in the next three weeks. _ The Federal Farm Board is now buying up wheat. Chairman Legge __ stated in the Sunday papers that they were going to buy sixty million bushels of wheat. es ; ee What. are they going to do about cotton? What are the bankers of the South going to do about it? It will be too late when it gets out of the hands of the farmer. a : ne one ag 5 AG If the bankers of the South do not assert themselves: pretty soon, _ they are going to get in the same fix as the cotton farmers of the _ South, They cannot answer back that) they are not crediting farmers. They are not crediting them generally and directly it is true, but they are crediting business houses whose main customers are farmers. | These business houses will go broke if their customers do not have any ~ money. When they go broke our big banks wi better wake up for self protection. es Be is Cale as _ Georgia cannot continue to grow and sell cotton for less than the the cost of production. ee