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THE DANIELSVILIE MONITOR
C. B. Ayrv, PuhKiLcr
Entered as second riasa matter at the
Post-oftice at Dauielsvilie
Official Organ of Madison County
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MAKE YOUR WINTER RESOLU
TION? NOW
A nhrmvc friend of ou .• one-.- said
to us, “Do you know why N< \v Year’s
resolutions ar- broken? No? 11l to 1
you why. Because at t :*• t rst of
January wo an f.rally settled m our
winter’s work and habits. The o. opor
tiriie to mack new resolves is in the
early fall, say, the m (idle of Fop am
ber or the first of October. Most
peoph do make their changes, plans
and resolutions about that time of
year. Businesses are started tl e i
to g' t advatago of th? itnrnen: e buy
ing of winter supplies. The school
and college year starts about then
And above all, that is the time when
ambitious people plan ahead for sev
eral months activities, or self improve
meat. It is in September that t>
collegian says, “I am going to work
harder this year.” It is in October
that the intellectual individual lays
out the scedule of what he is to do
read during the long winter evenings
It is then that we deride about our
lecture courses, our musical activities
and our nlans for mental and cultur
al b nefit - t
Strength Magazine
MOVEMENT IN SOUTH FOR DI
VERSIFIED FARMING DETHRON
. ES KING COTTON . I
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Georgia Wr.s The Firt State in Am*r
ic* To Cultivate The Staple. Some
Intere.'.f'ngr Fnc.H Concerning:
The South'* Great Product.
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(By A. M. Barnes)
Of ail the world’s industries that
embracing the production of cotton
and its Mi ilia'.ud eiiterpr’ses is the
most widespread. Since close to the
beginning of 1800 King Cotton lub
leaned over a constantly wldei
realm. The figures of 1914, when
the worlds cotton production reached
its height, shiw that at that period
more than 6,090,000 persons were
engaged in the production reached its
<l'Btributio'; and of cot
ton, while the capital invests i reach
h! $30,000,000. The figures of that
year place the world’s production
of cotton at. 14,000,000 pounds.
There in no other plant which na
ture has p v cVided uS that brings 1. >
mankind so much of cumf rt and
profit as cotton. Hit the sOurCd, too*
of a number of necessities, while In
war it has proved to bo absolutely
ijljjispc.'l'sible,
The state of Georgia has the dis
tinction of having produced the first
regularly cultivated cotton crop ever
grown in America. This was in 17df>
Other small patches were attempted
by farmers from time to time; but
the first noticeable success was that
of Richard Leak, a planter r-rs'ding
near Savannah. Ir> autumn of 1788
Mr Leak succeeded in raising 0 000
'■ei.i. l.; of r .\* cotton f:or. a a. i t
of eight acres, lie was proud of his
success and sent samples of the cot
ton to Philadelphia. He had heard
there were gins in that city for the
cleaning of the seed from the fiber,
and he wanted to find out if this was
true. It must hav been a mistakke,
however, as Whitney’s cotton gin—
the first really practical one—was
not invented tili about five years af
terwards.
The year after Mr Leak sent snm- :
pies of his cotton to Philadelphia
James Habersham, another planter
m the vicinity of .Savannah, forward
ed to Liverpool the r i-st bale of lint
cotton ever sent from the United
-dates to England. It met with a
startin'?: reception, certainly start
ling to Mr Habersham, for it created
such snprise and incredulity among
the Liverpool merchants they couid
not at first be led to believe that the
rotten had been raised in America
but insisted on it that it had come
from the East. So they notifi and the
customers officials of the -fraud”
and had R vdied.
•■t their error and great was the re
llj-'imrp: Vf ien ;♦ was learned that the
cotton had really come frem America
aid that England might soon have
another source whence it could come
<.Vain a supply of the fleecy staple
for the spindles and looms of itsmuny
mill. So much does England depend
upon the southern states for cotton
to keep its mills employed that, at one
time during the civil war. when t e
ports of the south were blocadedk, it
it produced what is known in England
as the “cotton famine”
Scores of mills were closed and bun
dre.dr of people thrown out of employ
r.-.i-nt. Parliament had to pass a re
• lief art, where!y funds wove ore!eel
Lo be distribute and to 1 e suffering mill
I operatives.
Within two yeans after Mr. Haber
sham sent his first bale of lint cotton
to Liverpool the total yield for the
year of the cotton crop of the United
States was 5,000 hales of 400 pounds
net weight of each bale. In 1800 the
yearly crop had increas'd to 210,000
hales. In ten years time it bad almost
doubled, for these were the first ( :
cessful years of the operation of Mr
Whitney’s cotton gin. Before the in
vention of this gin the separation of
the lint from (he seed of the cotton
was a most laborious taslck, it all hav
ing to he done by hand, and thus was
the one great obstacle in the way of
cotton becoming a source of wealth
to the planter.
In 1916 the cotton belt of the Unit
ed Stales was credited with producing
13,102,000 bales of an average o'
1)00 pounds each. By the following
year however, the yield had slumped
to 11,248,242. The chief reason of
this was that the arbor of a number
of King Cotton's liegemen had begun
( 001, with the result that the put
ting in of a diversity of crops lied
considerably decreased the eo ton
acreage. More attention was also giv
en to cattle raising. Thus commoditie
were produced at home the purchase
of which hitherto had been dependant
upon “cotton money.”
Hundreds of farmers of the South
ar t; poor today because of their blind
worship at the shrine of King cotton,
the following out of the bad policy
( of the “all cotton” method. They
gone on from yea to year, putting the
, uIK of their land into cotton, depend
ing oa its yield alore to buy every
, needed, from bacon and flour
for the family table to corn for the.'r
stock. Numerous others are the vic-
time of the lien system, the mortgag
or the crop before it is produced
in order to obtain necessary supplies.
* A most hopeful sign is th? steadily
increasing adoption of the p o'icy a-
r*io:ig southern farmers of “the ra
. '.ional system’’ of more diversifi.
farming. The cotton acreage of '921
was cut fully 49 percent. There wai
'also a marked iknerease in.the live,
j stock industry. “Hog and hominy
.raised at home” is the n: w jirgan of
, scores of southern farmers. Figures
I t'vrnisliad hy the bureau of market
I and evop estimates show that the
South cut its cotton acreage of 192i
by ciase to 12.000,000 acres.
The disorganized condition of the
1929 cotton marketk, the fearful
slump in the price of cotton, brought
about by an all-too-ardent worship
at the shrine of King Cotton—in
oil er words, by over production—is
largely the cause of this wise reac
tion throughout the southern farming
world. And having grown wis?
through sharp exper'enee it is not
hk( !y that there will bo in any notic e
: l ie dtg"ec a return to the old mat
.eth ids. The South is going ab.er.d
raising ius own living, and thus make
cotton not the main crop.” Thus it i-?
efisy to be seen that cotton is no long
er monarch of the south.
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Our expert opt Li as from the ('has
A. Green Optical Company, Atlanta
Ga , will bo here again on Friday, Oct
! t>. If you are'having eye troubles
.that require glasses, vVe would be
1 pleased to have you call in to see him.
;One day only.
; L. E. Green & Cos., Daniolsvill?, Ga
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THE ROWLAND WAREHOUSE
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We Sell- Forth Carolina Early Prolific Cot
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some sleeve links, sturdily built for service, stick
pins, tie clasps, evening dress studs etc., that aie
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