St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-11-21
OF NTERHsr TO RICE PLAN
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Ths following letter iron Messrs.
Dan Talmage's Sons, New Yorh
city, IL Of snch interest to many
readers in the rice sections, that NJ
decide to present il in full. II b
in response, ~ ca3 b seen. 10 .
few bindly "words ntly spoken. .
respecting their reports and COM
ments on rice. We commend it to
our planter friends With the old
time suggestion. "read. ponder and
inwardly digest.
New York. Nov. Is, 1891.
Editor American Grocer:
Thanks for your kindly words.
We are not 50 hardened BY criticism
rs not to be open aud appreciative
Of words Of commentator or conf
dence. There are men who always
see something Interior in every 9th
" PERSONS act or word. Poor,
selfish souls Judge others BY them
selves. Men give sure indication
of their own controlling motives II
they always suspect others. We
have many planter friends aud have
never failed to give them facts
Of market. Those who have been
financially able to wait the outcome,
nave been pro6ted. a.d all have
acknowledged the force Of what We
have said. 1t is not in % 70 con-
troll the market, hut We do know
a. to where prices viii finally 50
In any given season. M course,
every sensible man knows that
10 man or arm coold put pricet up
or down. but that such II within
the power Of tine planters = Z body.
ULtii lat year. through necessity
OF over anxiety, the majority have
hurried their crops forward and the
four mouths (September, October,
November, December) prior to
January shows m average range Of
prices in nearly every year fully Is
per cent. lower than those which
prevailed in four FIRST months (Jan-
uary. February, March, Apply in
each following new year. Oar inn
mediate clientsge or friends Gan At
test to this, for they have held back
as far as possible until the tnrn OF
the year and proiitted thereby. 1t
seem to us that there il not only
principle, but good business policy
suggested in the Biblical sentiment,
they "that are strong ought to hear
the infirmities Of the weak" Men
serve their own interests by recog-
MIXING that there is = common tie
which exists between the whole COM
muuity. That which affects one,
affects all in . degree. We may not
be able to make this plain IS regards
rice, but the fact remains. When
by former ruthless, reckless sales
before January prices have been
abnormally depressed, although an
advance of Is per cent. subsequent
" followed. the rice crop a. an en-
tirGty has been marketed at nearly
20 per cent. under the importing
cost Of foreign. The demoraliza-
ton among planters, ~ sellers, and
the destruction Of confidence in the
trade ~ buyers caused each to Lose
faith and both helped to establish
low plane'of value, far too low in
the early part Of the crop and not
after advance above noted within
10 per cent. Of actual relative worth
~ compared to foreign until nearly
when the domestic had
been practically sold ont. In other
words depression 50 great that
prices did not fully recover until
too late to do any good. This was
The history Of eight out Of ten
years prior to 1890, ana this when
The crop was known to be from $780,
BOO to 200, 600 packages short Of
consumption east Of the Rocky
Mountains.
Some planter friends have said
Ia the past, but show about selling
when prices are eminently satisfac-
tory!" TO which We have always
"Get the worth Of your
product. II you had inheritance
which cost you nothing, you
certainly would not give it away"
Last year aud this tie planters
seem to have awakened to the tact
hat it ID they who can make or un-
make the market. BY 20 much as
hey prevent undue depression, by
70 much they insure full and satis-
factory prices later on. 1t il easier
10 keep up than when ouce down
10 got up. Had We the ear Of every
,trong planter We would say.
When you hold hack your crop
hat your weaker brother may sell
,ut to good advantage. you serve
,ourself. You are cure TO get
present rates any way, and likely
~ get higher prices NJ soon ~ the
rev year fully opens.
The imagination may be searched