Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-23
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To the Chronicle:
In your issue Of the 10th inst, G..
HI. s. takes me to taw on an article
which appeared in the CHRONICLE of
the 18th, in which l referred to the
reduction of tobacco in the Burly
District. referred to the Burley sim
ply to show that a reduction would
enhance values. There is no compare
son in hetwo products. The Burley is
used almost entirely for domestic con-
sumption, while our tobacco is almost
exclusively for export purposes. The
cultivation of Burley is simply in its
infancy, and but once in its life has
its health been effected by being
over-gorged by over-production,
which the Spectator was not slow to
take hold of and make good thing
out of their purchase as soon as the
farmers agreed not to raise over so
per cent of crop. To-day the de-
mand is healthy and renumerative
is the producer. The Spectator got
the advance on the large crop OF
Burnley, and the farmer was not BEN
Gifted. This is just what am en-
deavoring to do, to persuade the
farmers Qarge or smalD to hold his
crop and not plant plant next year,
so that he can say, as your gifted con-
tributor, G. III. S., who has worked
so faithfully for the last twenty years,
to get the farmers to the point to say,
gentlemen, you may have my corn
at $3.50 per barrel, my wheat at $l.O0
per bushel, and tobacco at $1,000 per
hundred. Consistency thou art a
jewell" but never found in g. III. s.
May be the rich man could afford to
follow G. II. SIS. plan. The poor
cannot, for the reason that it
would take all he could re-
alize out of this crop to pay
for raising it, and leave him in debt
besides. If hey follow G. H. SIS.
suggestions and sell this crop at two
cents for luCs and four cents for leaf,
(prices now otiered. Make half
crop next year and getting ten cents
for that.
This plan will make the Reggie and
Strip dealers the profit that we should
get out of our present crop, which we
will surely do if we plant more next
year. The tendency Of G. III. SIS.
policy is to advance stocks in the
hands of the Regies and steamers,
one hundred per cent. by next Au-
gust, while the poor farmer whose
prejudices G. HI. s. appeal to will be
left in the lurch, with neither money
or credit to base another crop on,
having sold the present crop at two
and four cents. Surely G. III. s. has
lost his mind on this question, or he
would not forsake the farmers for
whom he has been working for twen-
ty years to organize and turning his
talent to the poor Reggie monopolles
and English stemmers.
G. H. s. charges me with absurdi-
ty, while there is so much absurdity
and nonsense in his article, that no
reply can reach it. His ten acres
plan would allow him to plant his
usual full crop of ten acres for his
one or two share hands, which gives
them five acres each. While his
Warfeld with fifteen crop
pers wonld only Lave three quarters
of an acre each, and G. III. s. would
get his full share of tobacro, besides
the advantages of resting
in the shade one year, experimenting
his tobacco income, with rents, cou-
pons, ETC., like he charges me with
having other means ofsupport. Now,
if Warfield's fifteen troopers will
agree to plant no tobacco next year,
the chances are that they will get $40
more for their present large crop, $500
each instead of $50, and follow G. I'll.
SIS example Of retiring one year from
toiling over tobacco plants.
Respectfully, JOHN DUSTY.