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ber 10. Now that the tender things are 
killed, 1 suppose we will, as* usual, have 
a spell of fine weather. While the Dah¬ 
lias and Cannas* are blackened, my big 
oleander does not seem to have minded 
it. lu fact, if it never got lower than 25 
degrees in Winter the Neritim. oleander, 
woidd be hardy. I once saw the olean¬ 
ders in Savannah with all the leaves 
burnt ofF and the wood still sound, and 
they told me they had had the mercury 
down to IS degrees. On my return to 
North Carolina in mid-March I stopped 
at New Berne, lying in the little penin¬ 
sula between the Neuse and the Trent 
rivers, and found the oleanders green and 
blooming. They said the lowest tempera¬ 
ture that Winter was 29 degrees. Evi¬ 
dently the cold wave skipped them and 
struck Charleston and Savannah. 
In the days before the railroads and 
steamboat transportation, nearly every 
fanner in this lower part of the peninsula 
grew a patch of cotton. This was hand- 
ginned and carded and spun into thread, 
which was used on the hand looms as a 
warp for the homespun, which was the 
universal dress goods for the men and 
boys. It was also the warp for the rag 
carpets which covered the floors. They 
grew the wool and dyed it blue with the 
wild indigo in the woods. The men and 
boys both wore short jackets. This blue 
fustian was generally worn on the farms 
till the end of the Civil War, and there 
are men, and not very old ones, still liv¬ 
ing who wore it. 
Now they are talking about planting 
cotton again. They argue that the boll 
weevil cannot cross the 40 miles of salt 
water between Norfolk and the eastern 
side of the Chesapeake. I tell them that 
it would never pay to make cotton here 
and ship it over to Norfolk to be ginned, 
not only as costing too much, but making 
a way to bring the boll weevil over. I 
was asked what a ginnery and old mill 
would cost. I said there were such iu 
the South that cost as much as $50,000. 
Of course such would be for an extensive 
clientage; a few thousand dollars would 
suffice for a limited patronage. That cot¬ 
ton will grow successfully here has often 
been proved. I have matured every boll 
ou the Cleveland Big Boll cotton in my 
garden tests, and this is not one of the 
earliest. With the Simpkins, Cook and 
King cottons, full crops can easily be 
made. But the inclination to plant cot¬ 
ton has been caused by the bumper crops 
of truck this season, and the consequent 
low prices. While this section can grow 
cotton. I think that an average of years 
will show that it will be far more profit¬ 
able to stick to strawberries, truck and 
orchard fruits. Unprofitable seasons do 
not affect the truck and fruit interests 
alone. There are years iu the most pros¬ 
perous times when cot f on is iu surplus 
supply and the prices low. In 1890 cot¬ 
ton was down to six cents a pound. At 
that price the man who grew a bale an 
acre would get only $30, and have to pay 
for ginning and bagging out of that. 
Strawberries are never so low. and sweet 
potatoes at 20 cents a basket will pay 
better. 
Nature and economic conditions have 
located the commercial cotton belt, and 
likewise have indicated the best soil and 
sections, and their rapid transportation, 
ns the place for growing perishable pro¬ 
ducts for the people in the cities. Tem¬ 
porary reverses in either locality do not 
mean an abandonment of the natural re- 
soures of the farmers. Farmers in the 
cotton belt who have always depended on 
cotton, are many of them in despair, aud 
they want to go to growing some other 
one crop, and write to me for advice. 1 
tell them that the only thing to do is to 
go to farming with cotton, corn, oats and 
wheat, helped by cow peas aud Crimson 
clover, to fight the boll weevil and stop 
mere planting by practice, improving ro¬ 
tation and build up the soil. It may be 
that after a while the boll weevil will 
prove a blessing, just as an old farmer 
in South Carolina once said to me: "We 
will never go to farming right until we 
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