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QQ4 Broad Street. - = - Augusta, Georgia.,
W7 lai H Costs to Raise Colton;
Insures That Are Worth Si wiving
Present Prices Below the Cost of Production and Farmers
Injuring Themselves In Taking Present Figures For Their
Staple Crops.
A ft»W fifty ‘ Hgo the D.'lihiM, Tr'XHH,
offered a calculation to »ho\v
that at the pHi’eft prrv&tltiuf then,
which waft on th<? hawia of about lOHo
for middling, there could he no profit
In growing cotton. That atatoment
haft moved Mr Charity Jl Metcalfe, m
farmer and stock rubor of Torn Green
county, to unit to The Ncwa a oopy
Of «n address which he made before
the Cotton Orowora* Aaaoclatlon in
Atlanta In Iso7. In which add rasa ha
Included a calculation ns to the coat
of making cotton From that address
we make thU quotation
Aftftumtna ns a fair estimate that
one man can cultivate an \< • aca of
twenty acroft of Ifttid, and that he
must have n tram impli nv nts and u
house, 1 will put the cost of these
Items ai follow ft
JO ft ras of land, a^verak»* price s.‘o S4OO
House 100
Team and Implement*... *. 200
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THE MAN ON
THE BOX
Supported by
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And a Selected Company
Scat Sale Thursday 10 \ M. Bargain Price Mati
nee—soc and 25c.
Prices: Evening, $1.50, SI.OO, 750. 500, 55c and 25c
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if you want to furnish your home completely and pay for same gradually.
We have the most immense and complete stock of furniture we have ever shown and
we cordially invite you to call and examine same. ::::::::::
Total $l,lOO
Intercut and wear and tear sllO
Taxes 10
Ke'*d for two animals 12 month**.. 126
Labor of one man one year 305
Total cost of cultivating; 20 acres
of cotton and harvesting 5ame....5005
From that Investment of money and
labor Mr. Metcalfe estimated that the
farnu r would «* t 3,690 pounds of lint
cotton, on the basts of ISO pounds per
acre, which, he says, government sta
11st lea show to have been the average
yield throughout the country for six
teen years That quantity of cotton,
ns i.c shows must be sold for 10. Sc a
pound If it Is to return only the cost
of production. It will he observed that
he mad« no civdit for the s» od, bi»* he
«' xplalns this omission with the remark
that “the send will about offset the
cost of ginning and seed to Plant.”
1 Khihtloss Homo valid demurs could
SATURDAY
Matinee & Evening
'OCTOBER 21ST,
* NAJMSPfawrnm
Elegant and Reliable furniture
For years we have pursued the policy of conservatism in our advertising and busi=
ness methods. Never promising more than we could perform and always living up
to the printed word and the salesman’s representations. “Your money back if not as
represented’' is the motto of the Thomas & Barton Company.
There is nothing in reliable furniture that we do not carry; nothing that you want
that we haven’t got. We believe that our easy payment plan will appeal to you
be offered to this calculation. For In
stance, he assumes that the twenty
acres will perform no other service
than that of producing cotton, and
also ho charges the whole cost of
maintaining the team; and Indeed the
whole cost of tin farm, to the cotton
crop, whereas on every farm there
must be Home other sources of reve
nue which, for the integrity of any
caleul&linn meant to s how exactly the
cost of making cotton, must be made
to bear a part of these expenses. But
of course Mr, Metcalfe could reply,
and cogently, that if he has not cred
ited the cotton crop with these and
some other items which properly be
long to it as a credit, also ho has been
generous in his charges against it.
For example a wage allowance of only
$1 a day Is a pretty small one, since
men earn more in cities for less la
bor than a farmer performs in culti
vating and gathering a cotton crop;
and furthermore, how much good cot
ton land can bo bought at S2O an
acre j
If. then, the cort of production is
the minimum Just value of any com*
irmdtty, cotton ought to bring ordin
arily about 17c a pound whereas just
nn\ it is bringing less than 9Vic to
the farmer Unnethe world afford to
pay that price? Hardly, we should
say. Seventeen cents us a normal
prloo would have certainly two con
sequences. The first would be a re
duced consumption, and the oilier
would be an Increased Production In
Asia, Africa and South America. The
solvent of Is problem for the far
mer must be increased production per
acre. What he gets from his twenty
acres he must learn to extract from
fifteen acres, and thus liberate the
five acres for the production of other
crops than cotton. The problem that
confronts the farmer Is the same as
that which confront® the manufac
turer when he finds that the cost of
production has grown so great that
those who can afford to pay a prof
itable price for his commodity are
steadily diminishing in number. He
sets himself to the task of devtaing
economies, to the task of reducing the
cost by Increasing the output from
the same investment and plant.
Manufacturers have gone far toward
the perfection of these economics. Un
less science, by discoveries and
tions. shall further increase their pow
ers. it is probable that, ns a whole,
manufacturers have, In their practices,
approximated the limit of possible
economy. In this respect they have
shown more intelligent enterprise than
the farmers have. Science has also,
done much for the farmer. It has
given him the secret if the soil's fer
tility. But he has availed himself of
these «Ids only in a very small de
gree; indeed. It may be said that, as
a whole, the cotton growers have
availed then.selves of these aids
scarcely at all. For them there can
he no salvation in striving for seven
teen-cent cotton. If they should de
lude themselves with the of It
THE AUbustfl HERALD, AUGUSTA, Gft.
Hasn't Seen Mother Since Infant;
Girl Leaves Augusta to Join Her
Was With Her Father From Time She Was 16 Months Old
Until Nine Years. Father Disappears From Augusta and
Child is to Join Mother.
No one can Imagine the sadness felt
by a foster-mother’s heart when she
kissed her bright little 9-year-old adopt
ed daughter good-bye Friday afternoon
at the depot In Augusta just before she
departed all alone for Baltimore, Md.,
where she was to meet her own mother
whom she had never seen and whom
she had been told was dead several
years ago.
Four years ago Mr. Nuttall, a plumb
er. and an Englishman by birth, came
to the boarding house of Mrs. O. L.
Hobson, at 974 Broad street and en
gagod board. Some time after he had
lx cn hoarding here he informed Mrs.
Dobson one day that he had a very
bright little girl in Montgomery whom
he wished she would take and care for
as her own mother was dead, *he said,
l ue daughter’s name was Gertrude.
Ho raid that it had then been nearly
four years since he had seen his wife
and that he had three other children,
two sons. Victor and George, ami a
daughter, Rosa, till of whom had been
placed in orphanages.
The Id :i to adopt this little gir then
at Just that Interesting age, appealed to
Mrs Dobson’s kind heart. Sin* want
ed the child for she loved children.
The little girl was sent for and for
these past four years she has been taken
ta,« of and loved by Mrs. Dobson like
she was her own dear daughter. She
was only a b -ter-mother in name and
the parting \Vas like that of one of her
own children.
Mrs. Dobson, with tears in her eyes
told a epresentative of The Herald Sat
urday of her tender love for the child
and the terrible shock she suffered when
and spend their energies in trying to
got it, they would be working as fatu
ously as did the builders of the tower
of Babel. They have reason to hope
for a better price than they are get
ting. and a right to demand It; but
the most immediate task tor them is
to make cotton more cheaply, or, in
other words, make an acre of ground
and a season’s labor jieid more cot
ton.
The best five cents cigar in the
rity of Augusta ia the BINGO.
OVERHEARD AT A STORE
Inquisitive Lady—And what Is this
little box'for?
Nerve-rocked Clerk —Oh. for odds
ami end*.
Inquisitive Lady—T>ut it has two
compartments. Why is that?
Nerve-racked Clerk -One for odds
madam, and the other fUT end*.—Har
vard Lampoon.
she was taken away from her. Indeed it
must have been right though for the
little girl to go for at the other end
mother awaited most anxiously to look
upon the face of the last of 4ier long
tost children. This little girl she had
not seen since she was 16 months old.
She now has back with her her four
children and writes that she is happy.
Mrs. Dobson *said that though the
child’s father had given the little one
to her, he left saying that he would re
turn but never came back. There Is a
sadness in the coincidence that for the
first half of the girl s life she was with
her father alone, then the rest she was
without father and mother, but in a
home which she loved as well as her
"wn. and now she is with her mother
whom she thought &he would never
see. x
Last summer a detective who claimed
he was employed by the mother of Ger
trude Nuttall, appeared before Mrs.
Dobson and Informed her that her moth
er demanded possession of the child.
Mrs. Dobson refused to give up her lit
th adopted girl and correspondence fol
lowed then between Mrs. Dobson and
the mother of the child. And It was not
until last week that an agreement was
reached and the now heart broken fos
ter-mother decided to let the little girl
go to her mother. She said that she hud
to be convinced that the woman in Bal
timore was the true mother of the child
uefore she could consent to part with
Gertrude.
This Is the fourth child adopted by
Mrs. Dobson and she says that everyone
of them have eventually been taken
away from her. *
NEWS OF SANDERSVILLE
Sandersvilie, Ga—Mr. Charlie Wall. Sr.
spent Sunday at Brooks Springs.
Mr. Bryan Collins of Dublin visited his
parents, Sunday.
Mr. C. F. Harrison was in Atlanta
for several days week.
Miss Ma tie Ainsworth has returned
from a visit to D&visboro.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bradley and son
are at the Taylor House.
Miss Lo'a Scarborough will be In Ma
con for a while this season.
Misses Oilie Belle and Thena Holt
were visitors to Macon last week.
Miss Emma Robson has reairned to
the G. N. A- I. at Milledgeville.
Mr. and* Mr*. Alex Chamlee visited
relatives in the city the week end.
Mr. Hubert Dukes will spend the week
end at home with his parents.
Miss Mary Hall visited in the country
near Deep Step, for the week-end.
Mrs. Chas Adamson attended the Pres
by ery at Union Point last week.
Taft Told Women To Vote
SUFFRAGETTES IN WASHINGTON ENCOURAGED BY THE
PRESIDENT.
Portland, Ore.—Tn a brief rear plat
form speech at Castle Rock, Wash.,
yesterday, President Taft made his first
reference to woman sufrage. He said:
“I am glad to see the women here. 1
am glad they take an interest in pub
lic questions and in public men be
cause upon their shoulders has fallen
greater responsibility in this state
than most women have to bear. You
have become the largest state in the
world that gives woman the right to
vote. All the world is looking to you
to see how the problem is going to
work out.
“If all women vote suffrage will
be a success. If they don’t it won’t
be. But I hope they will all vote. If
they are going to exercise suffrage and
all give the attention that men give to
it then I have no doubt of the result. I
GRAND—Wednesday Evening Only
F. C. WHITNEY Presents
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Original Production—Company of 100.
SEAT SALE TOMORROW 10 A. M.
PRICES $2.00. $1.50, *'.oo. 75c and 50c
FREE LIST SUSPENDED.
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 15.
am looking with confidence to what
the women of Washington will do. And
I hope that you will justify wtmt you
have done. Then, of course, all over
the country we will follow you.”
Ev e ry body is talking about it—the
BINGO.
THROUGH WITH HIM.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“And what are the Russians going
to do with that fellow who assassi
nated Stolypin?”
“Nothing."
“What?”
“Absolutely nothing. He was hanged
and buried two weeks ago.”
You’ll say its good too when you try
one. BINGO is it’s name.