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THE PRICE FIXED IS CON
SERVATIVE.
From State Department Agricul
ture, Atlanta, Ga.
4
Atlanta, Ga., September .Speci
al)—ln a statement given out to
faay, ('ommisssioner J. J. Brown
of tbe Georgia Department of
Agriculture, asserts that the price
for cotton fixed at the recent New
Orleans meeting of the American
Ootton Association, of 36 cents for
September, with an advance of
half a cent a Month up to next
May, when it reaches 40 cents,
was more than conservative con
sidering Georgia crop conditions
and those prevailing through the
South.
If it had not been for condi
tions now prevailing as to foreign
exchange, and other difficulties
which confront both Europe and
America, the association, at New
Orleans, would have fixed a price
of 40 cents a pound flat, to go into
effect at once, for even that price
will not pay the producer the pro
fit to which he is entitled above
the cost of production, and parti
cularly in view of the present
prices of manufactured products.
It was shown at this meeting that
the average eost of production
throughout the cotton belt was
34.56 cents a pound.
In his statement as to prevail
ing conditions, which more than
justify tiie foregoing action, Com
missioner Brown said: “It is prac
tically impossible to over esti
mate the heavy loss to parts of
middle Georgia and all of South
Georgia, by reason of the boll
weevil and unfavorable weather
conditions.
“Take a line drawn across the
State from Augusta on the South
Carolina line to West Point on the
Alabama line, and south of this
line there is a cotton producing
area embracing 87 counties. In
1918 these counties produced 51.7
per cent of the crop of the state.
To ascertain the probable loss to
these counties, we must consider a
normal crop, such as that of 1914
when Georgia made in round
numbers. 2,750,000 halos of 500
pounds. The 87 counties which
make 51.7 per cent of the Georgia
crop, therefore made in 1914, 1,-
421,750. Now it is estimated by
those who have made a careful
survey of each county south of
the line referred to, that the crop
this year in the 87 counties, will
not exceed 44 per cent oi a nor
mal crop, which is 625,570 bales
of 500 pounds.
“Based on these figures, the loss
to these 87 Georgia counties re
presented by the difference be
tween this year’s crop and the
normal crop, will be something
like 796,180 bales, worth at 36
cents an aggregate of $143,312.-
400. This loss in a little more than
half of cotton growing < leorgia,
is simply staggering. It is to be
hoped that there will he favorable
changes in existing conditions, so
that tiie total loss will be consir
erably reduced.
“But the conditions which 1
have set forth here as to Georgia.
I am most reliably informed, pre
vail over the entire coastal plains
section, from North Carolina to
Texas. They are general, and it is
evident that every cotton state’s
sea coast section will suffer simi
larly. It would he impossible, as I
see it, to make a stronger presen
tation of the lamentable situation
in the coastal plains cotton sec
tion. 1 repeat, therefore, that
these conditions more than justi
fied the action of the New Orleans
meeting in fixing the prices which
it did, and every pound of cotton
sold for less is a sacrifice on the
part of the producer and of the
business South.
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COTTON PRICES DEPEND ON
THE PRODUCED.
The writer was in New York
last week and on the day of his
departure the New York papers
gave two conservative market
situation in a way every Southern
opinions which size up the cotton
farmer ought to consider. These
two opinions read as follows:
“In another week or ten
days receipts from the new
crop will commence to make
themselves left and this is
counted upon to bring selling
pressure to the market. While
hull speculation and general
buying is on the wane in all
commodities, it could easily'
he revived in cotton, however
either through further deter
ioration in the crop or an im
provement in the European
demand.”—Bond, Me Emory
& Cos.
“Unless exports are accele
rated. the course of the mar
ket is closely dependent upon
the policy of the producer. If
he offers his cotton in quanti
ty in excess of trade require
ments we do not believe spec-
ulation will absorb the over
, flow except upon a lower lev
el of values. ” —J. S. Bache
& Cos.
Here indeed, is the cotton situa
tion in a nutshell. “The course of
the market is (dearly dependent
on the producer.” The demoraliz
ed condition of the peace treaty
and certain labor troubles in cot
ton factories have temporarily
given down cotton prices, but
whether this depression in prices
shall be made permanent depends
wholly on the attitude of South
ern producers. (’otton is one com
modity in which a bull movement
may easily* lie started if growers
act so as to promote it.
There is no doubt about it that
to pay labor and capital engaged
in cotton making the same re
tains labor and capital elsewhere
are getting, cotton should bring
40 cents a pound. Nor is there any
doubt about it that, with cotton
goods unprecedentedly high, cot
ton manufacturers should pay
growers 50 to 60 cents a pound.
Nevertheless, if cotton producers
begin selling for 30 cents and keep
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“The course of the market is
dependentt upon the producer.”
To every Southern producer, we
put the question: “What are you
going to do about it’.”’ We go to
press too early to report results of
the New Orleans meeting but will
do so next week.—The Progres
sive Farmer.
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Miss Modelle Male spent the
week-end at home.
Mr. John Morris was in the city
Thursday.
Miss Lucile Rylee will leave
Wednesday for Athens, where she
will enter Lucy Cobb as a day* pu
pil.
Miss Emmalene Sikes and Dr.
Bikes spent Monday in Winder.
The (’. W. B. M. of the Christ
ian Church met with Mrs. Rainey
Lanier last ’Monday afternoon.
After a very interesting program
delicious refreshments were serv
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Miss Myrtle Roberts and Mr. J.
T. Roberts were the week-end
guests of Miss Myrtle Roberts.
Mrs. W. 11. Perry has now as
her guest, Mrs. Joe Burson of
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Mr. and Mrs. R. (’. Willingham
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Mill Sunday.
Miss Emmalene Sikes will leave;
’Wednesday for Athens, where she
will enter Lucy Cobb Institute.
She will be accompanied by her
parents and Miss Daniel.
Misses Mayrelle and Irene
Cronic, Messrs. Prince Pickle and
Russell Hosch, of Hosehton, were
the guests of Miss Sara Lowe Sun
day.
Miss Lillian Moore and Miss
Axis Pruitt spent Saturday in
Athens.
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