The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-05-31
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ne montgomery A6rerfsser directs
the attention Of Southern farmers TO
what il calls additional danger
should another great crop Of cotton Be
produced. Reports from the leading
grain states show ;ha. the three great
cereal crops-corn, wheat and cate.
Will be much less this year han last.
Should this prove true, and should
the Southern farmer fail to grow iso~a
cereals. there will indeed be an impor-
iant fac, TO face. With foods,uas
selling at materially advanced price, .,,,
and the staple Southern crop cones. I, n,
ualiy declining the condition os our IN III
people would be far more embarrassing serl
than il now is. But the Southern '"'c'
farmer can provide against such
contingency by making the foodstuns ever
necessary for his consumption. He "a
can grow his farm the corn and 5
wheat needed, and raise the mea, he has AT
heretofore been buying from the Wes/
"lt would be a matter Of Indifferent =
to the Southern cotton producer/
wheat was worth 81 and corn 81 k
and meat 25 cents a pound u
cessites to meet his home demk q
cotton could be regularly sold for &6v - ,as~
or $50 bale it might pay the cotton. -.
planter TO have his grain bins and hog.
pens in the West. But, unfortunately, 50
the cotton planter is too often force -
to pay increased prices for groceries 80.
and wheat when he u selling his owa - )
product at price bdlov the c2ss .si Il
production. s@@ -
During the year ls89-90 the oostos~.~ .sner
planters all over the South relieved J.. scier
themselves almost entirely Of. debt. ,nand r.
This .appy situation was the 4epult the ,urpc,
fortunate combination Of cifeAills. Simla
stances. The Southern farmersr counties alon
surplus corn crop and . cottor process of co,
just j large ;!e enough s' to keep prs account
10 living nsurc. westward al
The truth is. there % no farrre Forty.thr,
all the world SO fortunately s;ty. generally du
as the Southern farmer. He cap stated. 10 10
a crop waiiagek.gold Sg q lands, the movemer
.esssoa ~aa,ss Of the COUNT ward is note
When the day comes a sn s,sea , Mort Nor,
will be made a surplus crop the &
of the Southern planter will notN>
found anywhere.
The world need. to meet its con- D
sumption a cotton crop Of 1,5OO,7 Y
900 bales from the Southern States
This is a normal figure. Anythig -,
above this means lower prices. AM !: 4"
thing below it means better prices 81 .ountr
cotton In brief, the Southern plante.ns first
can decrease the cotton crop to figure "a.
which will force not only living
price for it, but one in which there is
profit, while reducing the total cot
ton crop the acreage in wheat, cora
ap nats Will he
to give full work to the hands
ployed, and, while making themselves
lees dependent upon the West for pro "a
visions, they will at the time bN
producing normal crop Of cottoah
which can be sold for more cash money!
than can be obtained for crop much
greater than the annual consumption. -eni
This is well illustrated in the fact y
that the 100000 bale crop of 1875
brought the Southern planters $780,
| OO0, 900 more than the 100000 bales
of 1891. Think oft, cotton crop,
nearly sixten years ago, of one-half the
size OF 1891 worth 800, ,000,O 900 more
than to the Southern planters
i The Southern planter has the situa-
ton in his own hands The question
is, What will he do: Will be pay
tax of 5000 900, 900 to 30O,000,000
for the privilege of buying his bread
and meat in the West, or will he raise
his own bread and meat and put the
1900 900 900 or $500. 900 900 in his