Conyers weekly. (Conyers, GA.) 1895-1901, April 29, 1899, Image 4
FAl % *“-» Hi p a AT ro f jf] YEARS f 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. 1 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 ■ ■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. CASTORS A For Infants and Children. llie Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Advertise v.our business. Danger -til ‘A 7-J Do you take cold wk5i every change in the weather? Does your throat feel raw ? And do sharp pains dart through your chest ? Don’t you know these are danger signals which point to pneumonia, bronchitis, or consumption itself? If you are ailing and have lost flesh lately,- they are certainly danger signals. 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A pound of these seed will plant one-fifth of an acre, and with proper attention should yield enough to planf*a crop. The seed were tested in a list of thirty varieties by the Georgia Experiment Station and a bul letin recently issued by Director Redding shows that the African Limbless Cotton produced 70 pounds more per acre than any other variety, and 161 pound a more per acre than the average of thirty leading varieties. The African Limbless Cotton produced 780 pounds of lint per acre, which is nearly four times the average on the farms of the South. This shows what high fertilization and thorough cult ure will do with these excellent Seed. The value of the product, counting cotton at 5 cents and seed at 13 cents a bushel, was over $45 per acre. The cost of fertilizers used was $4.77 per acre. The Journal does not guarantee results, but the result of the test at the Experiment Station makes it worth a farmer’s while to test these seed when he can get them for nothing. 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