Bleckley-Jackson County GaArchives News.....WOULD SELL COTTON ON 13 ACRES FOR 50C September 26, 1919
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS September 26, 1919
BLECKLEY COUNTY FARMER 
STATES BOLL WEEVIL PICKED 
HIS COTTON CLEAN. CROP 
IS TOTAL FAILURE 
Showing to what extent the boll weevil has 
infested, invaded and 
spoiled cotton in Bleckley County, 
MR.Robert E. Perry,of Cochran, 
stated while on a visit to Jackson the 
past week that he would sell for fifty cents 
all 
the cotton he would produce on 13 acres of 
very fertile land. This same land informer 
years has produced from a bale to a bale and a 
half and two bales to the acre.This year the 
production will be nil—so near nothing that 
fifty cents would buy the whole out-put. Mr. 
Perry is one of Bleckley county’s largest and 
most successful farmers. He has refused $2OO 
per acre for the land on which this sea-son he 
will not produce the seed planted. The cotton 
was fertilized highly,400 pounds of guano 
being used to the acre. The wet weather and 
the boll weevil combined 1 made a complete 
failure of the crop, Mr. Perry stated. This is 
typical of conditions 
in the boll weevil area, according to the 
statement of Mr. Perry. He was on a visit to 
Indian Springs and the big dam and stopped off 
in Jackson for a short visit. Mr. Perry is 
known personnally to a number of the citizens 
here and is a man of honor and integrity and 
his statement is believed to be absolutely 
true.

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