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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921 FARMERS! FARMERS! FARMERS! I i TN view of the present conditions and our general welfare, we want to have a heart to heart talk and begin to THINK SERIOUSLY on the subject of REDUCING COTTON ACREAGE VERY MATERIALLY, or planting NONE AT ALL, and Diversification and an Economical Program for 1921 These suggestions are respectfully submitted with the best motives and as a warning before worse trouble actually comes. We have the low price of cotton, with the high pri ces of everything that enters into it. We have no assurance of making a crop, due to the boll weevil; we have no assurance of getting as much as it is bringing today and a possibility of much less. Suppose you are fortunate in making a large crop? This means low prices, much less than it cost to make it. And suppose we plant it with a big expense and fail? This also means a losing proposition. * . * What Are You Going to Do About It? Let’s Make All The FOOD and FEED CROPS we possibly can and make jusE as little cotton as possible, with our own labor, and all with the least possible expense. Don’t buy and owe for anything except absolute necessities, and at the end of the year if failure is the result you wont owe the other man, and if you succeed it will show almost a clear profit. The banks, merchants, tertililzer and mule dealers have shown a good spirit in helping to carry and hold our cotton. Now let’s arrange our affairs in some way to enable these institutions to continue to function and help all it is possible in these distressing times of deflation. They have troubles and burdens due to these conditions and it behooves us to take care of our obligations as faSt as is possible. Otherwise they cannot afford to extend further credit and accumulate indebtedness of two years. The time to avoid trouble is in the beginning and let’s prepare and plan for this now and produce only enough cotton, that will coSt us but little money to produce, and at least get what it cost us to make it. I We think we have seen hard times, but if we fail this year and can’t meet our obliga tions, conditions will be much worse. Consequently we had better be safe than sorry. So take warning and grow your supplies for fu ture needs and what cotton you grow let it be a surplus. , \ J. M. GASTON THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS. JACKSON. GEORGIA