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Paradoxically, many a southern planter views with alarm the possibility of controlling or eradicating Boll Weevil. In the South are two schools of weevil thought. One school laments the curse which reduces the cotton yield per acre, increases production cost, is already discounted in the market price. No less stoutly the other group holds that the weevil is really a disguised blessing, "the best thing that evuh happened to the South, Suh! Why, if it weren't for boll weevil, Cotton would be selling for fo' cents a pound right...
...arms (May 26, 1865); Joseph Wheeler from Alabama, second only to Stuart as a cavalry general, who lived long enough to command U. S. troops as a major-general of volunteers at the Battle of San Juan in the Spanish War; Wade Hampton from South Carolina, aristocrat and planter, leader of "Hampton's Legion" at Bull Run, commander of Lee's cavalry after Stuart's death...
...contrast to the brilliant life of the planter was the existence of the Negro slaves. Poverty and filth were their constant lot, ignorance, their heritage. Nothing was done for their comfort. Fear that family ties might develop too strongly caused the planters to separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives...
Died. LeRoy Percy, 68, cotton planter, onetime (1910-13) Senator from Mississippi by appointment, member of the Federal Reserve Board; at Memphis. Tenn.; after an illness of several weeks...
Laurence Stallings, author (Plumes), playwright (What Price Glory?), is now a planter in Caswell County, N. C. Last , week he took his first lot of tobacco, some 400 Ibs., to Danville, Va.; sold...