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    How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory
    How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory
    How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory
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    How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory

    By George Howard Alford

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory - George Howard Alford

      Project Gutenberg's How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory, by G. H. Alford

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory

      Author: G. H. Alford

      Release Date: December 23, 2010 [EBook #34729]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROSPER IN BOLL WEEVIL TERRITORY ***

      Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images

      generously made available by The Internet Archive/American

      Libraries.)

      Prof. P. G. HOLDEN

      Director I H C Agricultural Extension Department

      A one crop system will impoverish any country, and in turn it will impoverish the people that are on its farms. It is only through diversification of crops and the using of our energies every day of the year, as well as our hands, that we can make a great rich country and a great, strong, vigorous people.—Prof. P. G. Holden.

      G. H. ALFORD

      Of I H C Agricultural Extension Department

      HOW TO PROSPER

      IN

      BOLL WEEVIL

      TERRITORY

      By G. H. ALFORD

      Published and Copyrighted

      by the

      Agricultural Extension Department

      International Harvester Company of New Jersey

      Prof. P. G. HOLDEN, Director

      CHICAGO, USA

      A good stalk of cotton

      Introductory

      This book was prepared to furnish information on farming in the boll weevil territory. Special attention has been given to the production of cotton in infested districts and to showing how to adopt a system of farming which has been found profitable by many farmers in boll weevil territories. It was written by a man who has had practical experience all his life in growing cotton in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. He later devoted a number of years to the special study of the boll weevil in the cotton fields of these states as special agent for the Farmers’ Co-operative Demonstration Work. In addition to this, he is acquainted with the financial and economic conditions throughout the cotton belt.

      Dedicated to all Cotton Growers

      How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory

      The System of Farming Necessary to Obtain Best Results Under Average Conditions in Boll Weevil Territory

      In order to obtain profitable returns from farming in boll weevil territory, we must—First, grow an early crop of cotton; second, use every means possible to destroy the weevil and reduce their number to a minimum; third, follow a system of diversified farming.

      Grow an Early Variety of Cotton: To secure maximum cotton crops in spite of the boll weevil pest, the cotton grower must use every effort to bring the crop to maturity just as early in the season as possible. An early crop means profit—a late crop goes to the weevil, not to the farmer. If we are to succeed in growing cotton under boll weevil conditions we must—

      1. Reduce the cotton acreage so that the most effective cultural methods may be closely followed. It is often advisable to reduce the acreage 50 per cent.

      2. Plant only warm, fertile, well-drained land.

      3. Thoroughly prepare the seed bed before planting. Young cotton plants do not grow well in cloddy ground.

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