In local news in late August, the first bale of cotton grown in Coweta County had been taken to market and sold. The low sale price of cotton was worrisome, and gin and warehouse owners were urged by farm authorities to cut their prices to give the farmers a break.

All summer the pages of the Newnan Herald had been full of advice on alternative crops to cotton, including livestock, peaches and vegetables. It had also been full of ads for boll weevil pesticides, indicating cotton growers were still trying to turn the tide on the invasive insect that had destroyed so much of their crop since it arrived in Georgia in 1915.

The old ways die hard. Cotton had commanded high prices into the early 20th century, driven in part by the demand for uniforms and materiel for World War I, but the post-

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