Cows, Hogs May Defeat Destructive Boll Weevil, Sept. 22, 1922

Cows and Hogs May Defeat the Cotton Weevil. . . Farm Demonstration Service Asks Farmers to Plant Land to Pasturage. . . Will Establish Cream Routes in District. . . District Agent McLean Here to Help Edge Get Started—Thinks Cows Will Prove One of Most Valuable Investments Possible—Agent to Aid Fair

Every farmer in the Dunn District who has been devoting his land to cotton will be asked to plant 210 acres of it to grasses, acquire good cows and hogs, and lay the foundation for a diversification program that will make the boll weevil’s attack upon the community as nearly harmless as possible, according to District Farm Agent McLean, who was here yesterday to aid in starting the work of H.A. Edge, farm demonstration agent for Harnett county.

As soon as the farmers can be induced to plant the grasses and buy cows, the extension division of the State department of agriculture will arrange to establish cream routes through the surrounding country. Cream gathered on these routes will be shipped to Richmond, Raleigh and other creamery points until the supply is large enough to warrant the establishment of a creamery in Dunn.

Mr. McLean estimates that the cream alone more than will pay for the upkeep of the cows, and that the by-products in skim milk and manure will yield handsome profits for the farmers. Skim milk fed to hogs will make good meat profitably; the manure placed on land will grow corn to feed the hogs. It is his idea that the cows harvest the grass and convert it into profitable cream, milk and meat.

W.W. Shay, swine specialist attached to the extension service, will visit Dunn in the near future. He, (rest of paragraph obscured).

Mr. Edge is just beginning his work here. His headquarters necessarily must be at the county seat for the present, but he is arranging to spend much of his time in and around Dunn. While he is here, his office will be in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, where he may be consulted on any farm project engaging the attention of Dunn District farmers.

Mr. Edge is arranging to aid in the exhibiting of farm products at the fair here next month. He hopes to carry a farm exhibit from here to the State Fair in Raleigh. From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Sept. 22, 1922

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39 Weevils on One Cotton Boll

Lumberton, Sept. 10?—Having destroyed all the young squares, the boll weevils have now turned their attention to the grown cotton bolls, according to those who are keeping a watch of the situation. One grown boll brought to town Friday by a farmer had 39 adult weevils on it.

From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Sept. 22, 1922