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KING COTTON'S IMPOVERISTED ~RETINUE
American cotton-planters, proprie
tors of the greatest gold-producing
staple in the world, are poor. They
are in practical servitude. It is a
tragedy of contemporary life that
they who produce for the world the
commodity without which modern
civilization and industrial life could
not proceed are themselves absolute
1y subservient and the poorest paid
toilers in the United States. Intel
lectually the cotton-growers are sur
< Founded and coerced by factors which
have no other purpose than to keep
them in this benighted vassalage.
From this condition influences of a
new American spirit must liberate
them.
Millions, and We Waste Them.
This is a tale of commercial in
eptitude. Our greatest asset is our
greatest humiliation. Cotton is king,
but it is a badly served nmnarch.j
Other nations, by far-sighted policy,
intense activity and commercial ulert-‘
ness, have overcome the tremendous
advantage we have, and by beating
down the price of the raw product,
and with cheap labor on looms and
machinery for the manufacture of
the finished product, now control the
markets of the world. In the Orient,
where we once had our share of
trade, the market, to say the least,
is slipping from us. It seems almost
a travesty on American business
methods that English and German
manufacturers can go on the docks
at Galveston and take our raw cot
ton, carry it to Europe in subsidized
ships, weave it with cheap labor, re
transport it to the United States, pay
the customs duty and undersell our
home manufacturers. There is some
thing wrong here, isn't there?
Our Successtul Rivals.
Thus it is cotton, and cotton
alone, that can make America per
manently unique and supreme among
the nations. This fact makes gro
tesque the record of our unsuccess ini
selling finished cotton pmdncts\
across the seas The only foreign
customer that counted at all im-!
portantly in the totals of our export
trade was China, and our market‘
there has pitiably declined. Eng
land, Germany and Japan are forc
ing our ships from the Pacific just
as they crowded them off the paths
of the Atlantic. We should be car
rying cargoes of cotton goods to ail
the ports of the earth. Instead of
that the nations send here for =xo
per cent. of their raw supply, manu
facture it into all forms of commo
dities, outsell us in all the world’s‘
markets, and even successfully ship
“he manufactured goods back to the
All;xericans who produce the raw sup-
Pply.
We Might Be Supreme.
One word from America that it
«would withhold supplies of cotton
would bring all Europe to terms of
comity,
We smile at the short-sighted folly
of that day, and yet the progress in
the use and manufacture of cotton
will be as tremendous in the coming
Years as in the past. There is an
actual kingship for cotton, not oniy
commercially, but politically; and
this sovereignty of cotton in Ameri
ca I believe to be at hand.
We shall awake to our new des
tiny as a world-power and trading
nation when we realize fully that the
southern section of our republic is
virtually the exclusive source of a
commodity absolutely indispensable
to the myriads of mankind from
New York to Shanghai, from Nome
to Montevideo, from London to the
Cape.
What the South Needs.
The south needs to be taught
something about cotton. The plant
ing and cultural methods are still
crude. The handling and marketing
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‘of the cotton are atrocious. The
| splendid fleecy supply is carelessly
| picked. When it comes from the gins
|it is even badly cut by the saws, and
{the fiber is mixed with leaves and
{trash. The bales are imperfectly
| covered, and when traveling a long
| distance, as when sent to Europe, are
[ battered beyond description.
| The conservatism that has retard
ed the development of cotton itself
:hns had a conspicuous effect in pre
| venting America from keeping pace
| with the rest of the world in the
manufacture of cotton goods. I re
ifflr to the quantity of goods pur
chased.—Cosmopolitan Magazine.
I BROWN TAIL MOTH HELD UP.
Another shipment of apple and
pear trees that would bring with
|them to Georgia the dreaded brown
;tail moth of Europe and New Eng
land has been located by the state
entomologist over in Alabama, and
]]ms been stopped temporarily on the
very borders of the state. This ship
ment that has just been discovered
was coming into the state by way of
' Alabama.
SOILS AND FERTILIZERS.
By a Terrell County Student a’t —z;l—;\gri('ult‘uml College.
We want to learn how to get this
humus in the soil. The way this can
be most properly done is by turning
under green manure crops and all
forms of vegetable matter that grow
on your land. The farmer should
use all the barnyard manure he can
raise. Every farmer should strive
to raise more of this manure than he
does. It adds a great deal of humus
to the soil, to say nothing of the
plant foods it contains.
Barnyard manure causes a fermen
tation in the soil, which aids in mak
ing the locked up stores of plant food
in the soil available. It also makes
the soil loose and aids in capilary
attraction; it serves in the soil as
the yeast serves in the bread. Barn
vard manure, if used heavily, should
be put on broadcast and very early
in the Spring, so that it will become
well rotted.
Now, if your soil has a supply of
humus and vegetable matter in it
you can safely use large amounts of
commercial fertilizer, but if your
soil is clean of vegetable matter and
has but very little humus in it I
would advise you to never use heavy
applications of fertilizer; you will
never get paying results from it.
The reason why it does not pay to
use heavy applications of fertilizer
on land without vegetable matter
turned under is because there is
nothing to absorb the water and hold
it. Therefore, the ground soon dries
and there is nothing to make the fer
tilizer soluble for the plant to take
as food.
Next, and a very important thing,
every farmer should study in pur
chasing fertilizer and in fertilizing
his crops—the amounts the soil con
tains and the use of each. First,
we will take nitrogen, because this
is one of the most essential of all
plant foods; it costs the farmer more
than either of the other two ele
ments. 1 will show you how this
plant food may be gathered from the
air with but very little cost to the
farmer. The air that we breathe is
four-fifths nitrogen. - This nitrogen
has to be gotten in a form that
plants can take it up, and this can
be done by planting leguminous
crops. There are knots or nodules
that grow on the roots of these
Some Examples of Georgia Farming.
Houston County Farmer Gets $677
From 13 Acres of Land at a
Total Cost of $3O.
While in Perry last Monday Mr.
Z. T. Aultman told the editor of
the Home Journal that last year he
sold the products of 13 acres of land
for $677, and that the entire cost
was exactly $5O.
From three acres he gathered 100
bushels of corn.
From a 10-acre orchard he sold
$393 worth of peaches for cash, haul
ing them to Macon himself.
During the year he also sold from
his garden cabbage, beans and peas
to the amount of $35; from his yard
and barnyard he also sold in Macon
$l2O worth of pork and $65 worth
of chickens and eggs.
Suppose we compare this with a
cotton crop:
The net product of his labors ag
gregated $627.
Thirteen acres would have pro
‘duced about seven bales of cotton.
We will be liberal and count that
cotton at $5O a bale, making a total
of $350. The expenses of fertilizing,
cultivating and picking that cotton
would have been at least $2O per
bale, or $l4O. So we have a net
profit of $2lO for the cotton; $627
for Aultman’s fruit, vegetables, pork
and poultry.
Of course exceedingly few farmers
could emulate Mr. Aultman's exam
ple exactly, but a very great many
could pursue the same general plan
to great advantage over the plan of
depending entirely upon cotton for
monevy.,
| HITS COTTON EXCHANGE.
lJefl Davis Wants to Stop All Specu
| lation in Futures.
! United’ States Senator Jeff Davis
|‘of Arkansas has made a speech on
{his bill to prohibit the transmission
|of cotton futures by mail, telephone
lor telegraph.
| The bill provides, among other
things, that any person, other than
| postal officials, who shall violate the
'act may be sentenced to the peniten
|tiary for not less than five nor more
lthan fifteen years. Any corporation
JH-onvicted of violation of the act may
ibe fined not less than $lO,OOO or
{more than $lOO,OOO, one-half of the
|fine to go to the informant.
l “Every sale of cotton made by the
’l\'ew York cotton exchange is a gamb
ling transaction,” said Senator Davis.
i“During the fight before the legisla
ture of my state for the passage of
the Arkansas statute against this
levil T personally cross-examined, un
der oath, one of the brightest mem
bers of that exchange. He admitted
that 90 per cent. of their dealings
were purely speculative, and that to
rob the New York Cotton Exchange
{of its speculative feature would be to
destroy the business itself.
*“This bill is not directed against
legitimate transactions, where the
delivery is made, or can be made, but
it is only directed against that char
acter of transaction where no deliv
ery is ever contemplated, either by
i the buyer or seller.”
(CONTINUED.)
plants. These knots are the homes
of germs, and these germs seize upon
the nitrogen of the air and turn it
over to the plants. You plow these
crops under and they aad humus to
the soil, as well as the nitrogen
which they have gathered from the
air. A crop of cowpeas that will pro
duce a ton of hay will add from
75 to 100 pounds of 'nitrogen to the
acre. The commercial value of this
nitrogen will be from $13.40 to $l7
per acre. When you fail to plant a |
legume of some kind you lose all of
this nitrogen, and the crop that
grows on the land takes it from the
soil and gives nothing back to it.
Every farmer should plant all the
peas he possibly can, if they never
make a pod.
We have an abundance of nitrogen
in the soil, but it is in an unavailable
form. This is evidenced by the fact
that the first twelve inches of our
soil contains 3,500 pounds of nitro
gen. If this was available as plant
food it would take, growing one bale
of cotton per acre, 125 years to ex
haust the supply. But very little of
this is available at the time. The
farmer can make this nitrogen avail
able by crop rotation, plowing under
vegetable matter that makes humus
—that life-giving element to the soil.
Next is, what use is nitrogen to
the plant? This the farmer should
be very much interested in, so he
may know whether he needs this
plant food in large or small quanti
ties. Nitrogen goes to the making
of stalk, the foliage and flowers of
plants. A farmer can determine
about the amount of nitrogen his
soil contains from the crop that
grows on it. If your land grows an
excess of weed and foliage and very
little fruit you may know that the
plant food you need mostly is phos
phoric acid and potash. As a rule
the most of our dark, sandy loams
contain a high per cent. of nitrogen
and but little phosphoric acid and
potash. All fresh lands and lands
that have had a lot of vegetable
matter turned under for several
years need but little nitrogen, and
the same as to land that a large pea
crop was grown on the year before
and has been well turned and har
rowed. Therefore the farmer can
determine whether his Crop needs
this element of plant food and in
about what quantities. In my letter
next week I will take up phosphorie
acid and botash.
With 15 Mules and 504 Acres of
Land Irwin County Farmer
Made a Record Showing.
The experience of J. A. J. Hender
son on a farm near Ocilla shows
what can be accomplished by farm
ing in Georgia according to modern
thorough and scientific methods.
With 15 mules, on 504 acres of land,
Henderson grew in 1908 the follow
ing: 431 bales of cotton, the bales
averaging over 500 pounds each: 3,-
500 bushels of corn, 2,000 bales of
hay, 2,000 bushels of potatoes, and
enough peanuts in the corn field to
fatten 100 hogs. The big farm is
almost as level as a floor, and every
stump has been removed from it by
Mr. Henderson, who employs in his
farming operations the modern ma
chinery of the type so generally used
in the west.
The Right Sort of Farmer.
We know a farmer in a south Geor
gia county who made 300 bushels
of fine sweet potatoes on one acre.
He also made 250 gallons of fine cane
syrup from one acre. He also made
260 bushels of corn on six acres. He
has a drove of big fat hogs. All this
was done on less than ten acres of
land. That man is independent of
the panic.—Vidalia Advance.
OASTORIA.
Do ths The Kind You Have Always Bought
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JEWISH FARMERS TO MEET
NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE KNOW
THERE ARE 5,000 OF THEM
IN THE UNITED STATES. -
baa iy o SIEW S .
NEW YORK.—Five thousand Jew-‘
ish farmers in one assemblage—
though not very many persons know
there are that many Jewish farmers
in the world—will be a unique spec
tacle for New York to witness next
week.
They are coming, veritable Whis-j
kered, hayseeded farmers, from all‘
over the east, to attend their first‘
annual convention, which will be
held at the Educational Alliance,
East Broadway and Jefferson street.
They are such real farmers that
the Alliance, in sénding them its
prospectus of the convention, warns
them to be ware of swindlers, and
gravely explains the gold brick game,
the green-goods swindle, the bogus
mining stock delusion, the wireless
wire-tapping scheme and other get
the-money processes.
“Make no friends among smooth
talking, too cordial strangers who
will accost you,” the Alliance tells
its rural constituents. ‘“‘Also keep
vour money and jour jewelry secure
ly hidden in your pockets.”
The underworld of the East Side
got very busy laying its plans, it
is said, when the advent of the
five thousand agriculturists becamea
known, and a great harvest was ex
pected. Hence the warnings.
The convention will last for three
days, and will include a trip around
New York so that these particular
soil tillers can go back home with
‘memories of the Singer building, the
lSubway, and the other great institu
tions of the town. Joseph Pincus,
editor of the Jewish Agricultural
Magazine, will preside over the con
vention.
A SIX-ACRE POULTRY YARD.
Tuskegee Institute Has Largest and
Most Complete Henery in South.
A Tuskeegee, Ala., dispatch to the
Montgomery Journal says: It may
not be generally known, nevertheless
it is a fact, that what is undoubtedly
the largest and most complete poul
try yard in the southern states is
located at Tuskegee Institute in Ala
bama.
After a number of experiments the
Tuskegee Institute has solved the
problem of raising poultry in large
quantities right here in the heart of
the south.
A visit to the poultry yard at Tus
kegee will reveal some very interest
ing facts. About six acres are com
prised in the yard. It is divided up
into various departments, and alto
gether there are some fourteen runs
for the chickens so that each different
breed of fowl has a separate place
or field, so that the broods are not
mixed. The whole yard is inclosed
in a high wire fence of good, sub
stantial quality. Altogether there
are thirteen houses of different kinds
in the yard. These are used princi
pally for shelter and for training pur
poses.
The yard is located on a high, at
tractive hill, and everything in con
nection with it i kept in a neat and
attractive condition. The houses and
fences are kept constantly and neatly
whitewashed, so that from a distance
the yard presents a most picturesque
as well as pleasing appearance.
The problem of keeping insects
away from the fowls has been com
pletely solved, mainly through the
use of whitewash and persistently
following the policy of keeping every
thing about the yard scrupulously
clean. The percentage of deaths
among the fowls is very small—in
fact, so small this winter that it has
almost amounted to nothing,
The incubator system of hatching
chickens is used almost exclusively,
and the Tuskegee Institute people
have learned that they can hatch
chickens better in the late fall and
winter months than at any other
season. They have a large up-to-date
incubator house in which at the pres
ent time there are fourteen incuba
tors, and in these incubators, all told,
there are some four or five thousand
eggs. Almost every day new chick
ens are hatched out.
Just now the most interesting sight
in connection with this yard is the
brooder house, in which one finds
some 3,000 chickens ranging in size
from those that are one day old up
to those that are ready to go on the
table. The sight of these thousands
of chickens in this brooder housa
alone will repay one for a visit to
this up-to-date poultry yard.
Altogether there are between four
and five thousand fowls of all kinds
on the yard. William B. Williams,
who is in charge of the poultry es
tablishment, is a graduate of the
Tuskegee Institute.
At the Tuskegee Institute a num
ber of boys are not only receiving
training in the scientific and intelli
gent raising of poultry, but quite a
number of girls are being taught the
same industry, and they take to this
training most readily. |
We wish very much a larger pro
portion of families in Alabama might
take advantage of the opportunity to
visit this poultry yard right in our
midst. ‘
C. R. Kluger, the Jeweler, 1060
Virginia avenue., Indianapolis, Ind..‘
writes: “I was so weak from kid
ney trouble that I could hardly walk
a hundred feet. Four bottles of Fo
ley’s Kidney Remedy cleared my com
plexion, cured my backache and the
irregularities disappeared, and I can
now attend to business every day,‘
and recommend Foley’s Kidney Rem
edy to all sufferers, as it cured m(sj
after the doctors and other romedies}
had failed.”” Dawson Drug Co. and
People’'s Drug Store. 1
It May Be Pneumonis
“A hard chill, pain through the chpst,,fiifficult breathing.
Then fever, with great prostration.” If this should
be your experience, send for your doctor. You may
have pneumonia! If your doctor cannot come at once,
give Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. When he comes, tell hip
exactly what you have dqnp. Then do as he says.
No alcohol in this cough medicine. J.C_ Aver Co., Lowel[ 1/,
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That the vield of corn from the average farm can be greatly in
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In some cases remarkable results have been obtained.
Mr. C. W. Caruthers of Sumpter County, Fla., writes: “ Words
cannot express the value of your fertilizer. It is really so far ahead
of other companies’ goods, that it would not pay anyone to use other
brands, were they given free and put in the field. I can prove what
I say to be a fact. I made a test on five acres. I used on cne half
the land your fertilizer and on the other half another company’s fertil
izer, same grade; the land received the same cultivatton every time.
1 kept a correct account of the amount of money I pot off eack half
and I got $3OO more from the land on whick I used Virginia-Carolina
Fertilizer than I did off the other half. I pot four times as much
corn from the land on which I used your fertilizer.”
Write today to nearest office of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical
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