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Early County News.
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Blakely, Georgia.
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Blakely, Ga., April 20th, 1905. ~
From W. L. Johnson, President of
Georgia Division, S. C. A. 919 Empire
Building, Atlanta, Ga.
Daniel J. Sully, the man who drove
the price of cotton up to the 10-cent
mark and beyond, has written an open
letter in which he strongly urges the
reduction of the cotton acreage this
season. He advises the farmers not
to be led astray by the present prices
of the staple, and to again surprise
the world by greatly reducing the
acreage this year. The letter is short
and pithy, and if the advice contained
therein is adopted the farmers of the
south will be millions of dnllais bet
ter off this time next year than they
are at present.
Mr. Sully’s letter is as follows:
“If you wish to win your battle and
obtain a fair price for, your cotton
you must reduce your acreage very
considerably.
“You have surprised the world by
the manner in which you have held
your cotton. Surprise it again by
cutting down your acreage.
"Do not be led astray by the present
steadiness of prices.
“Three causes have contributed to
bring about this rise of more than one
cent a pound.
“First, the urgent demand arising
from an unprecedented comsumption.
“Second, your courage and wisdom
in making the buyer meet your terms.
“Third, the belief that you would cut
your acreage to such an extent that
the supply from this crop and the pre
sent growth of 1905 would make a
commercial crop no larger than the
world needs.
“The flrslt two causes lose their
force the moment it is known that
there is a prospect for a moderately
large crop next year.
“Even if the mills take 12,000,000
bales during the current season this
would leave a carry over of 1,000,000
bales. Hence the necessity of a smal
ler crop this year.
“Do not let any rise in prices be
tween now and the end of the plant
ing season deter you from reducing
your acreage. Such an advance would
be merely anticipating that you were
making the decrease in acreage that
your friends have advised you to
make.
“If the June reports of the govern
ment show that you have failed to
make sufficient reduction, the only
persons who would be gainers by the
advance would be the speculators who
sell out their futures at a profit.
“The price of the cotton you pro
duce will be regulated by the actual,
not the expected, reduction in the
crop.
"Don’t depend on your nighbor to
do the reducing.
"In this matter of acreage bear in
mind three suggestions.
“Don’t rely on bad weather to cut
down the size of the crop.
“Don't put a large acreage into cot
ton simply because it is too late to
plant corn, or other diversified crops.
-It would be far better to let part
of your lands lie idle than to run the
risk of raising a crop so large as to
make possible another period of low
priced cotton.
“I am making this appeal to you be
cause I regard the next few davs as
critical to the South, and because i be
lieve that every man who is interest
ed in the welfare of the South
should urge the importance of the re
duced acreage.
“DANIEL J. SULLY.”
The proposition of Hon. Pope Brown
to reduce railroad passenger fare to
two cents per mile in Georgia is being
considered by the Railroad Commis
sion to-day and the railroads are mak
ing a hard fight against the reduction.
Capt. Ketcham of Amityville, Long
Island, is now the proud owner of a
■ gold toothpick, it came about this
way: There was an “old hoss” sale
of unclaimed baggage at a local hotel.
Among the stuff qut up was a dilapi
dated old trunk that didn’t look like
it was worth thirty cents. Capt. Ketch
am ran the bids up to $2, at which fig
ure the trunk was knocked down to
him. His neighbors grinned and gig
gled. ‘Stung again’ they told him: then
laughed some more. But when Capt.
Ketcham got a hatchet and knocked
the lid off and found inside a roll of
money and several pieces of val lable
jewelry, it was he who did the laugh
ing while the chins of his friends drop
ped to their breasts. To own i gold
toothpick had always been Captain
Ketcham’s idea of real luxury, so vhen
he struck his prize in the “old hoss”
sale, he went off ond bought one. —Sa-
vannah News.
A Railroad Pass Defined.
From the Savannah Press.
A paper asks if the railroad pass
isn’t a bribe what is it? The Thomas
ville Times answers that it is a great
convenience. This reminds us of the
little girl’s definition of a
abomination in the sight of the Lord,
but a handy thing in a tight place.”
The children will be grieved to
learn that “the wild man of Borneo,”
who has been in the circus business
for so many years, is dead. He was
buried in Missouri, near the old farm
on which he was born.
If State Chairman Yoemans is read
ing the comments upon his interview
in opposition to the South Carolina
primary plan, he is probably learning
something.
If your size in pants is not one of
the regular, see my stock and get fit
ted up. The old Mayfield goods $1.50
to $4.00 al>air.
T. F. JONES.
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Tax Collector’s Notice.
Myself or my representative will be
at the following places on dates below
for the purpose of collecting commu
tation road tax forjyear 1905:
Colomokee April 18.
Urquhart,. April 19.
Jakin, April 2t>.
Cedar Springs, ...April 27.
Lucile,.. .April 25.
Cuba, April 24.
Damascus, ..April 21.
Arlington. April 20.
Rock Hill, April 28.
Blakely April 8, 15, 22, 29.
On and after May Ist, all parties
subject to road duty and have failed to
pay the same, will be summoned by W.
A. Boyett to work five days on the
public road as he may designate.
Such person or persons may be reliev
ed of work by paying to Mr. Boyett or
myself tlie sum of $2.50.
W. J. KENNEY,
Tax Collector.
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