Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-09
A FEW MORE IDEAS
From John Dusty on the Non-Produo-
ton Of Tobacco.

To the Chronicle:
If any of your readers doubt the
success of not raising any tobacco next
season, / will call their attention to
the difference In prices Of Burleys to-
day and what it was selling at two
years ago. If they will recollect it
was selling at prices lower than what
the dark tobacco is bringing to-day.
What has caused this difference? The
Farmers Home Journal OF Louisville
went actively to work to get the
farmers of the Burley growing dis
tricts to reduce their acreage, which
they did by so per cent, and to-day
Burley tobacco is paying them well,
prices as high as they have ever been,
simply from the fact that they went
Systematically to the reduction Of
their product. Are the farmers Of
the dark growing district less sensi-
BILE, or have they got less business
about them, than our >neighbors Of
the Burley district, when every one
admits that some move has got TO be
made to save them from bankruptcy
and ruin, for since the settlement of
the country there was never such a
crop raised. Barns full, cribs full,
smoke houses full, hen-houses full,
and corners of the fences full. Let
the farmers attend one sale and see
the prices the weed is selling for, and
if that does not satisfy them that to
make another next year is out of the
question, all that can be said or writ
ten will have no effect. Some few
are saying that this is town move,
and is being gotten up by the specu-
lators in their interest. / believe |
wrote the first article on the subject
of non-production, which appeared
in the CHRONICLE of September 10Th,
and want to state here that am no
speculator, have not a pound of to-
bacco outside of my present crop OF
about forty acres, which crop will not
bring the cost of production if we go
ahead and put it on the market in
the regular way. What will or any
other man have to pay his debts with
if he gets for this crop less than 1t
cost? Say that the move would save
the speculator, are we not saving our
best friends? Put them in good fix
financially and in five years we will
have tie larger part of their gains. /
have noticed it for years that where
they make money one year they lose
it next as q general rule. How any
body but a Reggie buyer and a stripper
can oppose the move is beyond my
comprehension, where we can not
work (and who likes toy and double
our present crop, by not doing it.
Get everything in readiness for the
1890 crop, which will bring figures
that will pay well. The hands we
have on our farms we can keep en-
ployed; it will take until June to get
the present crop ready for market
The share-hands crop will be eadvanc-
ed on in proportion to the land own.
er's, and che should see to it that he
does not sell it until he puts his on
the Market" which gives him the
same advantages that will receive.
Now, brother farmers, grangers and
wheelers, let us put our shoulders to
the wheel and push this move to a
successful issue, and show to the world
that we can work together where our
interests demand it. Lets get good
man to go to work throughout the
dark district and organize Farmers
Protective Association, that will cost
nothing to join, and will cease to
exist when the present crop is sold.
More anon. JOHN DUSTY.
Ringgold, Tenn, Oct. s, 1888.