Show PEANUTS HELP SOUTHERN AREA Southern Farmers forced To iso New Crops B By Boll BollY Weevil Y By Dr EA Service S MADISON Wis Oct 29 The 19 The ex example ex- ex example ample of a II small southern community In its successful campaign against the boll weevil may be the means of saving the day for farmers of the in borer corn belt This way out of a fast growing predicament is seen by H. H F. F Wilson of the Wisconsin College of Agri Agri- culture The community to which Wilson of which Enterprise Coffee county directs the corn com growers grower's attention att Is Isnow Isnow isnow now the great peanut growing district of which Coffee county Alabama Is virtually the center BROUGHT DROUGHT PROSPERITY On a IL foundation In the square of this little town 1 Is a tablet t which reads In profound appreciation of the boll weevil and what it has s done as 55 the herald of prosperity this menu menu- monument monument ment is erected by the citizens of Enterprise Coffee county For the coming of the boll wee wee- weevil vil vii at first sweeping the country- country tide aide with Its destruction caused the farmers of that t area arcs in Iii 1915 to aban aban- abandon abandon abandon don cotton for tor a 3 new source of profit And they found it in peanuts Coffee county now holds the worlds world's record for the production of peanuts while hogs hoS and cattle are being shipped to market In carload lots Just as diversification saved saied the day for the farmers of Coffee CoHee county Wil Wil- Wilson Wilson son suggests It be used by the corn growers of the Infested borer-Infested regions Some are ar already dy beginning b n to t do this thisby thisby thisby by breeding livestock especially esp lally dairy cattle ca tile HOGS DOGS HELP TOO With the cow the hog Is being in introduced In- In Introduced introduced to rescue the farmers in those sections where the borer has started Its destruction The corn that Is grown n on these farms is cut down to the ground and stored for lor feed during the winter The entire stalk st and grain gr ln Is utilized is utilized and few tew borers survive the knives Cs of the silo cutter What Is left is turned under und r In Inthe Inthe inthe the fall |