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Ct j, mrr-tv . . ici-.cr rv . r> t>. ~t.icnhUr C tevcrt% UrffCS e ,ci»
a lim’uct Ion In Cotton Acreags
an c! ■ , - i'izcrr. t d on Cot
B.'rd at Least
Fr,-,vi Thai : ,- c<i the
t S 1 0 Years.
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r Also Ihg'S « Ij.-.rgH Inerense of
r«-.o:» • BiT-lhs l 31 n and llenat
yor Home * f. 01 , 1 uniptiou, nR Well ns
„ f A;! t!l ,. procure* <.f UioF.mpkKv
rep! Cotton) That Will IP ing Spot
t'nsii iiilii L-.i-go Profits In Hie
Markets.
Alt At.TA, April 1, If.90.
Tlie year It 99 is a memorable one in
the backwards .•••• or ail kinds o< farm
work, p;( pa;aP-ry for the coining crop,
The *!• ; of ,D unary and February
.
wore :• m . t entiieiy lost, and the on
■table vratl.er into March, has retarded
t):e usual pro/ni: made in this direction
dmiug la * t* month, t ader these cii
ci instan" ii :s n fx'd j.u* *— lt “d
crops °f I* ’•Be planted mu
Inter than usual.
Even with the corn crop in South and
B ei. t Georgia, most of tbo usual
pluming m i: ■•brv.ary was extended to
ttarcb, while much of tho March work
o‘ tbo < <■; 1 'p in Middle, North and
n .rtbeast Gi «: i.r, will of necessity, be
carried in! A mil this riar. Eat laie
pkiutn v '.kb .i-cpajid thorough propa
mi on m ini' ;.ri i.s much better than
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■lip-shod vori: and pluming at an ear¬
lier j cried. Every Intelligent farmer
kuowr. f 1 ' inr ]■(! flu ii half the work
if done, .■• m,Aing, when a crop is put
lr after thin kind of preparation. But
thc-o ; eji'i . -i.-rreas :t why late plant
irg ai.il • upend thorough preparation
O C il ; in aid go' tegethcr this year,
V-iitcii i . ut mit to yi.uv reflection.
I refer to a Used natural law that
T fern < rs through¬
out the world, ninl enahlos'theni to turn
Hie sui:. liiue and rain God 6 euds us to
tluor nr. 11 prelk.
lt is ii ;s: ■ That the mean annual rain
fall in -uy gitiu locality, whether 10
lnehes or EO inches a year, does not
vary much, either iu any given year or
■1 rics ( ' 1 :’.rs.
In miof the states east of the
iJi.-f-is.- ; vo h.iTO had nn excess
of rainfall, ccRU!ien''iug last August
and j ricipo ending wish February, f<>r
this rev -nil tho port-ibiiity or .perhaps
probability of a drouth mere or loss
protracted during the growing season of
ti.o <■(ruing crop would seem to be in¬
dicated; nn additional reason why deep
ft .i thorough preparation aud lata
flaming shc-n’d go together, both in
r.-rn and co:ton (his rear. Every weak
joint in every terrace on the farm
f uiu’d I e looked after and repaired so
t mt min.-: that do fall during tho com¬
ing months of crop maturing will bo
«oiiBitined and utilized by the growing
(.op. With perfect terraces, deep prepa¬
nt ton and shadow culture afterwards,
(lowing crops will bo exempt from
1 rouths whoa compared to lands th.it
■ ro unt [’raced,
We have now arrived at ilin cotton
y’nvntiug month of April, the most
critical in tho history of tho entire
unto, be cure on her agricultural pros
jeritj uli other interests hitigo or rest,
1 iher languish or prosper, upon the
i.ccirtcn i f tho farmers of Georgia
curing (Ids month touching the re
ciuctii n i t acreage as well as in fer¬
tilizer.-- of at Irnst one third from
liuir used tho last two years, not only
In Gtn-rgia, but in all (ho other states
cast ( : :k" Mississippi, and as substan
th;i a reduction in tho acreage of the
not;i n suites west of it. The imperative
jhh'O's 1 ;i for the induction will bo seen
■I-y a slt- rt glance at tho crops of 1898
nr.il t
Tlie c: op of 1S97 was 8,750,000 bales,
and sold for from 7 to 8 cents. The
».op of T s was n,200.090. and this dis
Hsti-cu- cr- p brought less than $ 11 , 000,000
more than the .crop of 1897. In other
Words, 2 ■ 00,000 bales of the crop of tho
3898rv were sold at 4 50per bale, weigh¬
ing I 1 ' . , ur..!--; so much for making more
cotton then the world needs, and allow
Ing the cotton spinners of Manchester
io set 1 price on the eutiro crop, aud
The it -s iistaijied on the present crop
Is aitfi -.Her than on tlmt of 1898, as
many r ; i us of it were sold at 3 cents,
itnd I--”.to of it even loss than this.
There is now more than cotton enough
mi n - .- i t >-r v'.-.y the world's needs tlie
prose nt year, or until next September.
I know that the farmers of Georgia
tiave been surfeited with newspaper
ltd vice in the management of their own
businet-s for years, but in this instance
you are advised by one who will do
lucre ti v.u practice the precepts here in
vnlcated, both in the reduction of his
■ own acr age devoted to cotton, as well
as the quantity of lertilizers used by
liim ihi- year
Georg made more cotton than both
the Cau l.nus in 189s and manufactured
less o{ “ i ban either, while tho two
Caroline united consumed the entire
CTOpof Iv-rtu Carolina and reduced the
cotton ev. p of South Carolina 120,000
bales in ; Georgia uses one-fourth
of all the . e^utzm used from Maryland
and Yirumia lo Louisiana, including
tiv-.t u- d on toe wheat of the first and
sng t aue of the last! She
taken the lead in the “ail cotton” craze
fo Jr For the past two rears, nntii the
of the spider web Micrfgatros
worn: around her hospitable homes by
5 ho crop of 1893 that brought disaster
end min to very many, have redoubled
their meshes na very many more in
^
But Georgians have an almost infli
Kite 5 . 0 v,er of active potential endur
fnee and energy, ana their helpmeets
rro in every way worthy of them if
their work were shown to them.
A farmer near A lania brought 100
fine turkeys here lately and sold them
for cash as quickly as cotton for $105 to
Ilio retail trade, a fnm equal to seven
of cotto „ at ;; cents! They cost
ab. olntely nothing but care aud protec
tion while young. They live on insects,
bugs and plenty of corn, and corn never
ought to be sold off the farm in Georgia
until after it has been feu to pigs and
turkeys, worth C and 12 cents a pound,
at least, dressed. The cotton bales cost
$3 a bale to pick aud cover per bale after
^ | s tna.de, leaving a net balauce of $49.
^he farmer fancies that the bagging
paTg f,,r itseif, but there is a tare of 22
1 !(jnn< j a deducted on all cotton exported
^deducted f rom the price of every bale
0 f cotton, w hether consumed at home
py m Europe.
A half million turkeys raised by the
farmers’ wives will be a labor of pleas
ure, leaving three-fifths for home con
sump: ion and two fifths for the market.
Dressed turkeys can be sold in the
cities at from 10 to 15 cents per pound
tkroneh the winter and early spriug
months, and paid for on delivery, by
using systematic business methods. Ev¬
ery ciiy, town and village will furnish
a market for them.
The freight on such products would
be from 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds
from any county to any city in Georgia.
Why should Georgia depend upon
Tennessee for her dairy aud poultry
products, and on the west for nearly all
of her mutton, beef aud pork supplies?
Tbo only answer to this is that the cot¬
ton producers of Georgia have been ex¬
pending their entire energies on cotton
for two years past, much to their own
sorrow, slid have had no energies to ex¬
pend on any other product of the soil.
A half million bushels of sweet potatoes
can be disposed of in the same way at a
stipulated price before shipment, and
spot cash on delivery, and millions more
for home consumption, as well as to fat¬
ten pork and poultry. They retail today
at $1 a bushel iu Atlanta, and in almost
every other large city iu the state, and
in vrr sell 1 clow 50 cents, and farmers
wouid not be compelled to market them
at the lowest price, as thoy always are
iviib cnttoii.
It has been the custom for many years
for farmers’ wives to have a “cotton
patch” to supply them with Christmas
cash for family necessities ur luxuries,
but alas, like the largo body of labor
who “work on shares,” nothing or next
to nothing has been left of their
“patches” after the picking and bag¬
ging were paid for. This year let hor
“cotton patch” be substituted with a
flock of 100 turkeys. She will find
pleasure in raising them and seeing
them grow up. At an average weight
of 10 pounds dressed thoy will not in
spot cash over $ 100 , equal to four bales
of middling cotton at 5 cents.on tho
plantation, besides helping iu a small
way to reduce tho volume of Georgia
cotton that lias well nigh ruined Geor¬
gia the past, two years. By the end of
this month an approximate estimate of
the coming crop will bo arrived at and
by tho last of Maj* tiic statisticians will
bo able to give the exact acteage in cot¬
ton planted, the amount of fertilizers
used; aud 011 these two as basis give
their estimate of the coming crop in
bales for 1399 and 19U0; the Neils
among them giving a largo margin to
their guess work, iu the interest ctf the
cotton manufacturers of the world, and
by this means robbing the cotton pro¬
ducers of tho south, as they have done
in the crop of 1S99. Already they aro
boasting and assuming that the small
grain crops destroyed by the severe win¬
ter in Arkansas, west of the Mississippi,
as well as iu Georgia and states east,
will now undoubtedly be planted or re¬
planted in cm con. If these predictions
como true In Georgia or Arkansas it
will be hailed as a sure omen for another
large 4-cent- cotton crop, and irretrieva¬
ble ruin to tno cotton producers. But
we have an abiding faith iii tho cotton
producers o! Georgia and we shall con
tinue to che.tish it for one or two months
longer. Ge* >rgia farmers learn nothing
from didactic instruction, like school
children. The intelligence of the aver
agriculturist is as broad and his
mind as clear as his city merchant
cousin, What ho wants are cold facta
in plain language, aud these he can deal
with and master as easily as they are
presented to him. Debt, debt, for many
years has put him in the position of the
most stubborn criminals a century
ago. When they were enclosed in a
tank, chained to a pump, and water ad
mitted at a ratio faster than ho could
pump it out, unless he worked with all
his might, with no v lition of his own, he
was left for a given time to make his
choice between pumping and drowning,
the guards alike indifferent which he
preferred,
If he owed his creditors $1,000 they
never offered'to take 1,000 turkeys for
I the debt, nor 3,000 bushels of sweet po¬
tatties; if they had selected the potatoes
j he would planted have it taken with 20 this acres “apple of bis of best th#
■ land,
esrth,” worked at if wirh the irrcsist .
ibla and oatiring energy of a Georgian,
shipped the 2,000 bushels promptly ~ n
time to lift tbosior«K>g». »>'.d bank use
other 2,009 carefully for tbo spring
u:crk: f, at 75 cents ;tr bnshsl.
Ent bis crcc.itors accept cotton cmy
on all debt? due tin 1:1. AU other agri
cultural products r re vaiuelces. Cotton
alone brings spot cash, jay they, and
yet the setnli in past years has ptitd rut
millions annually for suu cured grass
to feed the stock engage:': in making
cotton to glut the cotton markets of t 0
world with. We have already shown
the utter imro.-sibility of tbo farmer
ever being able to cancel that $ 1,000
mortgage with cotton, ly the actual
rale of seven bales at J cents per pound,
counting only the actual cost of picking
and covering it, if to this were added
the cost of picking, chopping, hoeing
and cultivating, we leave others to com¬
pute how much of the net proc. edu of
that seven bales would be left to credit
that § 1,000 mortgage with.
Let those who blame even the all cot
ton farmer put themselves in his place.
All cotton producers in Georgia and in
all the other old cotton states east of
the Mississippi have been too much on
the “all cotton” plan in the past years,
with Georgia far in the lead. We have
fried faithfully to make this matter
plain in cold facts and figures, and the
necessity of raising not only an opulent
abundance but a tutpernlnnidnncc of ail
food supplies for man aim beast, not
morely for home consumption on the
farm, but for every product of the fann
that will find a spot cash market in
every village, town and city in the state,
and at more remunerative prices than
co'ton ever brought. A few only of
these have been indicated by us, because
every farmer can supply many addi¬
tional products that will bring them the
hard cash for himself.
The farmers of Georgia are the poor¬
est people in the state, I mean the cot¬
ton raising farmer. A woman cotton
mill hand can make $90 to $->0 per
mouth, and has more money than the
average farmer has seen the past two
years. He has been trying to clothe
the world at his own private expense,
He sold in 1897 aud 1898, 2,500,000 bales
of his best cotton at less than 1 cent a
pound. He has been doing even more
charitable deeds than this in 1898 and
1899, but at heavy cost to himself and
family.
The facts are before you; the remedy
is iu your hands. If you heed them
now the wrecks of the past two years
may stili be repaired. But if the farm¬
ers of Georgia are saved from hopeless
bankruptcy and ruin it can only come
to them by a reduction of the acrege iu
cotton and In fertilizers devoted to the
production of cotton this year of at
least one third of each.
O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
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She leaves several children
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