The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-06

does not believe thatshe gets more for his
bagging and ties than they cost him -
Cotton fabrics are used by and are in
to every enlightened, civilized,
half civilized, and many of the barbarons
nations of the world, ~ -
Ten of the Southern States produce
about two thirds of the cotton crop of the
commercial world, and a much superior
staple to that grown in other countries,
The long American staple is much used by
being mixed with the short staples of Asia
and Africa, to enable the European man.
ufacturers to make marketable goods out
of this short staple. The cotton crop OF the
Southern States for 1873 was 4,57S'ooo
bales, for which the producer received an
average of s cents per pound, or about
s1Soooo.ooo, from which will have to De
deducted the cost of ginning, baling, bag
cling, ties, freight to nearest Southern CITY,
storage. insurance, two samplings, COM
missions for selling, charges for weighing,
deduction from weights, dryage, ioss'
waste, stealage, ETC., equal to S5o'ooo'ooo
on the entire crop, leaving the producer
but little over $50 per bale to pay for pro-
duc;no if. which will hardly do it if made
bv hired labor. After the crop had passed
from the producer into the hands of2tne
s,,ecuixxors- rtri'<1l~.-.~--s = n..d-4e.,
rose to an average of II cents per pound,
or 100000, 900 gross profit to the specula-
tors and gamblers in spots and futures,
who bought and sold over 100000 bales
during the year. These spectators in
Cured expenses on cotton about as fol-
lows: brokerage, drayage to compress,
COMPRISING, drayage to depot or steamer,
and freight and insurance to New Eng
land factories, amounting to about 1885,
100000 on the entire crop, leaving their
net profits about SOS 100000. These esti-
mates are made on the assumption that the
entire crop was sent to New England
none retained in the South, none sent to
Europe.
1t is well known fact that the CONVEX
sion of baled cotton into yarns, numbers
| from IS to I2s, increases its value 100 per
| cent, and into high numbers and textiles
| many hundreds more. 1t is also fact that
the South not only possesses all the adj
vantages of the North for manufacturing
| cotton, but has also cheaper land, food,
labor, fuel, building material, shorter and
| milder winters, more reliable water power,
exemption from strikes, direct reclamation
for falsely packed cotton, and more i'm
| portant than all, an abundant home supply
of seed cotton, that will not bear long
transportation, but can, by the Clement
Attachment, be converted into better and
stronger yarns than can be made of baled
| cotton, and at about one-half the cost,
thus cutting off and saving all the twenty
seven items of expense, loss, waste, dry
| age, perquisites, pcculation, speculation,
ETC., on cotton in tsaaSitm from the field
to the factory, amounting as above, lnclu-
ding speculation, to near $I5o,ooo,-
900 on the crop of 1873. She would also
reap the profits of 100 per cent for the
simple conversion of the crop into yarns.
With all these facilities and advantages
over the world in producing and manu-
featuring her great staple, she surely
should hold the key to the supply of cot
ton textiles 10 the world, but she does not:
she has permitted the North and Europe
to manufacture her cotton and control its
price, and become slaves to Northern and
European capital and enterprise. Will
she not see her great mistake, and the fea-
sibility, the absolute necessity ola change:
Itappears from the letter of special
correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution,
which we print in full elsewhere that
Georgia, the leading Southern State in
cotton manufacturing, is thoroughly
aroused to the importance of this subject
May all the Cotton States follow her lead,
| for when our farmers learn that cotton
produced by hired labor does not pay at
nine cents a pound, that, two thirds of a
cotton crop sells for as much money as a
full crop, that cotton grown as a surplus
crop always pays, that every article Of
prime necessity can and should be pro-
duced in the South--when she diversifes
not only her products but her labor, and
utilizes her immense water power in man
ufacturing the products of her mines, for
ests, and particularly her cotton crop, then
will she be self sustaining, prosperous and
independent. a
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Cooperation is making steady and
healthful progress in Texas. Worthy
Overseer Rose, of the State Grange, has
given the cause most active and effective