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THE COMING
1 * COTTON C ROP
All Absorbing Topic of Conver¬
sation Among Farmers.
BHALL AREA BE LARGE OR SMALL?
A Question That Kach Individual Must
Settle For Himself—Commissioner of
Agriculture Nesbitt Suggests That the
Matter He Regulated by Home Supplies.
The lteceut Heavy Halns.
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t { Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, April 1, 1897.
The cotton crop is now the all ab
■orbing , . question; . the , to A . be planted; , . ,
area
the preparation of the land; the fertil¬
izer best suited to its needs; the best
■eed to use; the most judicious maimer
of planting and the after cultivation,
all come iu for a share of attention.
Conventions have met and passed reso¬
lutions; addresses have been made;
letters have been written, and at last,
each individual farmer must settle for
himself, according to his surroundings
and his ability to undertake a large or
■mall crop, whether he will plant only
a limited number of acres, or stretch
out the area over vast fields. Before he
makes up his mind he should consider
several points carefully. First, the
quality of land in which the crop is
planted. , . , As often .. urged ... through .
so
these columns, it does not pay to plant
ootton on poor land and depend on a
a little commercial fertilizer, as an ar
tiflcial stimulus to force the plants for- ■
ward. It is far safer to concentrate the I
labor, the fertilizer and other expenses
of preparing for planting and cultivat¬
ing the crop in a few acres in “good
condition,” than to handle four or five
times that number of acres, from which
the best part of the fertility has been
used up by previous crops. Again, the
ootton area should be regulated by our
home supplies. No man has the moral
right to risk the bread and meat of his
family on the most uncertain outcoino
of an uncertain cotton market. It is
Just as if he were to cast his other
nome interests into the ever changing
whirlpool of the stock market, and trust
to luck to bring them out uninjured.
But having secured his home supplies,
I believe that every farmer has a
right to plant as many acres in cotton
as his best judgment dictates. But it
must be au enlightened judgment,
and to that end farmers should
lose no opportunity of informing them¬
selves on every point affecting this ques
llon. Just now the whole of Europe is
In an iuflammable condition, and only
a small spark might cause a conflagra¬
tion which would set the eastern hemis¬
phere ablaze, and kuock the very bot¬
tom out of the cotton market. Another
f.c, b. remembered, i„ .be condition
•f the cotton mills—they are, almost
Without exception, crowded with goods
snd spinners are not in condition to en¬ !
ter the market largely. Ootton goods {
cheaper, but I .
Were never trade was never
toller. The. financial affairs of the
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tise made our to adver¬ high *
grade of work, variable feed
and is sold at SAW MILLS,
ABOUT COST. PLANERS and
shingle machines,
ENGINES and BOILERS,
CORN, FEED, and
mi n FLOUR MILLS,
m ' WATER BALING WHEELS, PRESSES,
jra ~_L CORN SHELLERS,
PEA HOLLERS,
SHAFTING,
PULLEYS and
MILL GEARING.
SAW REPAIRING
j A SPECLYLTY.
. S»»PRICES LOW.
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country are in suen a disjointed state,
that almost every branch of trade is in
an uncertain and unsatisfactory condi¬
tion. It is true that our finances should
be on a firm basis, but the fact remains
that they are not, and that we have as
yet failed to receive the promised resto¬
ration of confidence. Wnat we may be
able to do in the future remains to be
seen, our duty just now is to “hedge”
against present difficulties. If the farm¬
ers, as a class, will do this, then if a
crash should come—they of all classes,
will feel the shock less and will be able
to bear with comparative calmness dis¬
asters, which will drivethe general bus¬
iness of the country to the wall.
THE HEAVY RAINS AND THE DISASTERS IN
SOUHWEST GEORGIA
Since the above was written, the
wires have brought the news of the ter¬
rible storms, with loss of life and prop¬
erty, in Southwest Georgia. For a large
part of my life my home was among
these people, and the sorrows of that
stricken section seem almost my own.
To the parents and families, who have
lost their loved ones, I can only offer
my tenderest sympathy from a heart
which knows what this agony of suffer¬
ing means.
To the farmers who have suffered so
severely in their farming methods, I
would say don’t despair. Take courage
and begin afresh. It is better that this
disaster should have come now than
later on, when, to repair the damage,
would be impossible.
#»> THE HEAVY RAINS
throughout the state have greatly re¬
tarded all farm work, but the winds
during the latter part of March dried
off the laud and enabled the farmers to
Ret in some telling strokes during the
last suushiMy days of the month. The
planting of the different crops will be
nec e>g S arily much delayed, but I remem
ber that, one year during my residence
in Southwest Georgia, we were visited
by8U ch destructive spring floods,
, ,
iudoed . But I also remember that we
plucked up courage and went to work,
and that iu the fall we gathered about
as much cotton and corn and other
crops as iu au average year, and our
troubles in the spring were then for¬
gotten.
It. T. Nesbitt,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
MISUSE OF BIG MONOPOLY,
Iho Section That Raises Practically All
the Kisrth’s Cotton Supply Fails to
Take Advantage of Its Pow¬
ers to Control.
I have here a few thoughts which I
would like to submit with only the wish
to fix attention on the fact that our mis¬
use of a monopoly, the most gigantic
and the most unrestricted ever known
in this world, has come very near ship¬
wrecking our agricultural fortuues.
Only in the last few years wind,” are and we
learning to “tack with the
it is only since we have commenced to
more seriously study the various influ¬
ences affecting our great commodity
that we are learning to steer clear of
the breakers, on which the “all cotton”
man is bound to meet disaster.
This is a subject which is old, yet al¬
ways new and full of interest. Since a
boy I can remember that this cottoa
crop problem has engaged a large part
of the attention of farmers, and has oc¬
cupied an important place in all agri¬
cultural discussions at the conventions,
bS’S’
rectlv after the >var this subject was
surrounded by false conditions. The
stock of cotton on hand was reduced
beyond all precedent aud our better
judgment was obscured by the high
p r i ce of cotton—50 cents in gold, equal
to $2.10 in greenbacks.
MISUSE CF OUR GREAT MONOPOLY.
The temptation to the impoverished
farmer to borrow money to invest in
highpriced muies. highpriced fertilizers
and highpriced provisions to raise high
priced cotton was too alluring to be re¬
sisted. Money was plentiful and easy
to obtain, and many are today strug¬
gling under the burdens imposed by the
mistakes of those first days “after the
war," followed by years of uncertainty
and doubt. Many have lost all in the
eager race and have awakened too late
to the fact that a cotton crop, unsup¬
ported by other necessary crops, is a de¬
lusion and a snare. Others, more far
seeing and realizing in time the mistake
of putting “all their eggs in one bas¬
ket," have, by a system of diversified
farming and rotation of crops, been
able to gain a firmer foothold and today
have the promising prospect of a suc¬
cessful and remunerative business. They
have worked on the idea that a cotton
crop, although it does not eat like
mules, yet requires an abundant provis¬
ion crop to sustain it in healthy condi¬
tion.
The greatest mistake that we farmers
at the south have made is that we have
presumed on the prestige which our
monopoly has given us in the markets
of the world, and have supposed that
our cotton was able, unsupported, to
lift us over all obstacles and out of all
difficulties.
WE HAVE A CORNER IN COTTON.
That we have a monopoly is attested
today by the fact that we produce at
least three-fourths of the world’s cotton
crop. All the Either cotton growing
countries, many of them with strong
government backing and encourage¬
ment, have so far been able to produce
only one-fourth of the general crop. By
using every means at their command,
they have, in a period of 27 years, in¬
creased their crop only 10 per cent,
while our increase during the same pe¬
riod has been over 200 per cent. From
1867 to 1872 our average crop was 8,167,
000 bales of 400 pounds each. During
the same period of five years the foreign
crop average was 2,337,000 bales. From
1891 to 1894 our average crop was 9,484,
000 bales; foreign, 2,595,000. These fig¬
ures show for the years mentioned: In¬
crease iu American cotton, 6,317,000;
increase in foreign, 258,000; increase iu
American over foreign cotton, 6,059,000
bales. »
Surely with such a monopoly as that,
we ought to be able to control the mar¬
kets of the world. Why is it, then,
that the cotton grower is at the mercy
of the buyer and must accept his ulti¬
matum, whether it barely pays him
back the cost of production or leaves
him in debt. Let us examine into the
subject a little. We find that Georgia
alone pays out annually over $3,000,000
for mules: that in the present year
Georgia farmers will use over 350,000
tons of commercial fertilizers; that the
importations of corn and meat, while
greatly reduced in the last few years,
are still much too large iu a section
where the facilities for producing these
items cannot he surpassed.
Iu 1879 Alabama, Mississippi, Lou¬
isiana, Texas and Arkansas each raised
more cotton than Georgia. Now Geor¬
gia makes more cotton than any state,
except Texas, and more to the acre than
does Texas. We find that Georgia raised
in the year
Cotton. Corn. Oats. Wheat.
Hales. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels
1870..... 473,000 17,000,000 1,900,00J 2,127,000
1890. ..1,191,000 29,000,000 4,700,000 1,096,000
The crops of hay, sweet potatoes
butter, etc., were all increased, but the
production is still Georgia’s short contribution of what it
should be, while
to the biggest cotton crop ever made is
second only to the largest. Here we
behold farmers struggling to force a cot¬
ton crop on the world, for which they
often accept less than cost price, because
they are compelled to have the money
to pay for provisions, which could have
been raised more cheaply at home.
There is 5 per cent of our land in cot¬
ton. If we would expand the crop to
meet the increasing demand, let us not
reach out to increase the area, but
rather by judicious methods of prepa¬
ration and fertilization and regular ro¬
tation of crops, endeavor to increase
the production of the present area. I,
for oue, am in favor of each man’s
making all the cotton he can, after he
has taken care that his position is se¬
cured by ample provision supplies at
home. Cotton is undoubtedly our
money crop, but, like any other monop¬
oly, requires forethought and judicious
management. Suppose the Standard
Oil company, or any other giant mo¬
nopoly, was so shortsighted as where to over¬ it
stock the market to a point
would be compelled to sell at a loss, in
order to pay running expenses, would
not such a course be condemned as
wanting in the first principles of a
sound business policy? And yet that is
exactly what the farmer is doing when
he loads himself with a cotton crop for
which he cannot fully pay.
If he has allowed himself sufficient
margin to be secure of a clear profit on
his cotton, be it one bale or hundreds of
bales, he is in no danger. I am con¬
vinced that this question of the cotton
area is one which each farmer must
solve for himself, and once the great
body of farmers, each man according
to his surroundings and conditions, has
decided on the number of acres which
he, as au individual, can safely afford
to put in, the great question of how
much cotton to plant each year will be
forever settled. To better enable farm¬
ers to arrive at correct conclusions, and
to throw more light on all subjects con¬
nected with our farm management,
farmers’ institutes, farmers’ chautau
quas, experiment work and every other
means of diffusing information should
be systematically used.
What we need is a more thorough
knowledge " of the conditions Nesbitt, surround¬
ing us. R. T.
State Agricultural Commissioner.
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LEGAL ADVERTISE
MENTS.
ROAD NOTICE.
Georgia, Rockdale County.
Whereas certain petitionez-s have applied
to the Court of Ordinary for the establish¬
ment of a new road, commencing at W. Ii,
Peek’s saw mill, on Peek road, and running
South-westerly and intersecting the Brown
Bridge rc ad, near John H, Scott’s, and the
reviewers having marked out said road and
reported to me that the same will be of much
public utility, this is to cite ail persons that
cn and after the first Monday in May, next,
said new road will be granted, if no good
eause is shown to the contrary, Given un
dc-r my band official signature, this April 1st,
1897. A. M. Helms, Ordinary.
adv’g §339
Letters of Dismission.
Georgia, Rockdale County.
To whom it may concern:—W. W. Scott, ex¬
ecutor of John L. Scott, late of said county,
deceased, has In due form applied to the un¬
dersigned for letters of dismission from his
trust as such executor. This is to cite all
persons Interested that I will pass upon said
application on the first Monday in June, next
March 9, 1897. A. 51. Helms, Ordinary.
Georgia Rockdale County.
To whom it may concern :—R. H, Cannon,
executor of T.A. F, Stanseii, late of said
county, deceased, has applied to me for let¬
ters of dismission from his trust as such ex
ecutor. This is, therefore, to notify all per¬
sons concerned that I will pass upon said ap¬
plication on the first Monday in June, 1897.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this March 2, 1897.
$6. A. M. Helms, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
Georgia, Rockdale County.
To whom it may concern:—T. A. Hamilton
has in due form applied to the undersigned
for permanent letters of administration on
the estate of John W. Hamilton, late of said
county, deceased, and 1 will pass upon the
same on the first Monday in May, next. Giv¬
en under my hand and official signature, this
April 1st, 1897.
adv’g 13 A. M. Helms, Ordinary.
SHERIFF’S SALE FOR
MAY.”
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on the first Tuesday in May, 1897, the follow¬
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districtof originally Henrr, now Rockdale
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lands of John M- Zacbry.
and Conyers road, north by lands of Mr-.
Fretwell, and east by Yellow" river ard lands
of C. M.'1 aylor. Levied on Jan. 28, 1896. as
the property of James H. Griffin as agent for
wife and children, to satisfy a tax fi fa, for
his state and county taxes for the year 1895,
This Anril 2.1897,
adv’g §414 W. H. M. Austin, Sheriff.
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INCORPORATED Kalamazoo, Mich.
Question.— If i should decide so x—
tilize my cotton very heavily will it be
best to apply all the fertilizer at oue
time or at different periods, say a part
at planting, a second application at the
first plowing, aud another later on ?
Answer.— The answer to your ques¬
tion depends very much on the kind of
fertilizer you will use. If the elements
are readily available and highly ammo
niated we have found that to divide a
large amount into two and even three
parts and apply at different periods of
crop development has a marked effect
for good. But in the slower acting for¬
mulas it is more profitable to make one
application at time of planting, dividing
it between the planting and the two ad¬
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