From the Weekly-Advertiser, July 27, 1950.

Keep Up Weevil Fight During August, Westbrook Urges

Georgia’s 1950 Cotton Crop is going to be much smaller than in the past several years according to the July 1950 cotton acreage report, and this makes it practical to produce as large a cotton crop as is practical E.C. Westbrook, Extension Service cotton specialist says.

The present war situation makes it desirable for farmers to continue to put up a good fight against the boll weevil and the boll worm, Westbrook said this week.

“Don’t stop poisoning too soon,” he warned. If farmers do this, they may lose a considerable part of the gains that have been made up to now by poisoning.

The cotton specialist pointed out that considerable quantities of poison are being shipped out of the state, and he urges farmers to obtain as soon as practical the amounts of poison they will need during the next 30 days.

Westbrook continued that Georgia cotton growers are doing the best job in history of poisoning boll weevils and other cotton insects.