The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-02-08

solves Dy taxing the flSK OF SelllnB
futures in cotton-thcy made some
thing by that last season, they might
lose tho next. There is hardly any
one now who think they will bo ablo
to realize for this years cotton crop
more than s conts per pound for
cotton. The prico fixed,
therefore. for ton Of guano at tho
coast is 500 pounds of cotton, which,
at 8 cents per pound for cot ton is
$40.
Now, has there been any advance
I assert hero that there is not q
general agent or manufacturer do
ing business in Georgia or South
Carolina but who would prefer q
currency note to cotton option
note. It is chance in u cotton
option noto. If cotton goes up
they would make $50 would the
planter on tho balance of his crop)-
if it COOS down ho would lose. If
cotton was now &c. per lb., the
manufacturer could not afford TO
take 500 lbs. Of cotton fnr a ton,
but if It was Zoe. per h., he could
afford to take 200 lbs. Tho manu-
facturer must havo q certain
amount of money for ton Of for
'tiiizer, and he can only SEQ that
amount by asking 500 lbs. middling
cotton. There is no disposition on
tho part of the manufacturers to
OpprcSs the farmers. On the other
hand, they have done and are still
doing by giving them better and
cheaper fertilizer than ever beforo)
all they can to holp them along, for
upon tho farmers success depends
not only their own succo SIS, but that
Of every other business.
There has been largo sums mado
on commercial fertilizers, but
like evely other business, it has
come down to hard pan, and they
will hereafter have to bo satisfied
with small profits. If they are
making large sums now, I should
like to know what becomes of it it
is certainly not declared in visidle
dividends. D.
Augusta, Ga, january 2S, 1879.
Advice from q Farmer.
Editors Chronicle and Coustitu-
tionaiist: Arc the cotton planters
Of the State of Georgia going to
submit to the iniquitous advance of
fifty pounds more Of lint cotton on
the ton, as determined on by tho
Guano Nings, whilo everything
else is depreciating in valuation i?
Aftor specie payment has been re-
sumed and every one else seems de-
tormincd to have adopted the fact
that they must work hard and bo
willing to take fair remuneration
only for their labor, the guano men,
feeling their might over tho most
numerous and powerful class Of our
people, have concluded to put up
their prices, knowing that the giants
(our agriculturists) arc slow to
move and will submit to most any,
thing. Robbed on all sides, sup
porting the world, they, the
agriculturists, instead of fighting
those who prey upon them, arc
continually skirmishing among
themselves, scarcely looking beyond
their own noses, but fattening
those who feed upon them. Why
will you cotton planters allow your-
selves to be plundered and show no
resentment? Do you know that
with M old negro man, to whom
you would have to pay $50 and
feed, cart and horse, whole affair
costing you 5000, you can, in tho
course of a yoar, by hauling truck,
viz, leaves, pine straw, ETC., in your
lot, ut q low calculation, mako you
over twenty tons of better fertilizer
than you have to pay five hundred
pounds balo of cotton for, even
when you got genuine article
And that old negro would pay for
himself in tending ten acres in corn,
besides flooding your stock and
looking after your sows and pigs,
and going around your fences after
every washing rain, to 500 that no
stock could get in, that so often you
have to delay your best hands to
look after, keeping them from
grassy piece Of cotton that ought to
have been finished while tho fence
was being examined. Happily, old
Columbia is one county that has de-
tormined to call q meeting and
ascertain whether tho citizens have
nerye enough to refuse to purchase
any five hundred pounds bale Of cot
ton (for tony guano. We cotton