The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-10-05
( AN ExPLANAT TON.
'ditor FARMERS DrpARTMENr !:

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Referring 10 questions in your last
\ issue, please allow space to explain
that in the first it was intended to say
without fertilizer
The methods followed in growing
cora here, vary little. and it may be
\ assumed cost the same. The price Of
corn at harvest also varies little,
usually so cents occasionally less).
N. O. BoDY.
Hypothecating upon the usual price
E Of cultivation IN vogue here, it will
cost about $3.50 to till an acre Of corn,
and about 8 cents per bnshel to harvest
make the average yield on unfertllized
4 land 10 bushels per acre, which at SO
cents per bushel will give $500. De-
\ duct tillage and harvesting $40 and
you have $500 profits, not counting
4 rent of land, personal services or
cost and deterioration of tools. This
is an extremely bad showing for
years operation, making the corn cost
about Is cents per bushel. Upon this
same land with the same culture,
tertilized we ought to make an average
of 80 bushels per acre, which would
reduce the cost of production to about
10 cents per bushel. The above esti-
mates are for hireling farming, if the
producer be the laborer himself and
he owns the land, even counting his
services by the day, the profits would
be greatly augmented because he has
everything coming into his own pocket
Placing the cost as above at rs cents
and sell at so cents, and although the
yield is small per acre, yet it shows
SO per cent proftson the transaction,
proving that farming compares favor
ably with other callings, and if the
southern producer Of his corn would
feed it into fat stock and sell it as the
nor hern farmer does, he would still
increase his per cent. We nave to buy
hog products from them and pay their
profits and the profits Of packers and
transportation and retail profits here,
md yet we say farming don't pay.
The fault may not be in the farm or
farming but in the farmer. We have
had our say, will the gentleman now
please give us his experience, facts
and figures as he is one of our most /
practical and accurate farmers and
has his neck red by close supervision
Of his business and is successful. l
As farmers and especially as cotton '
farmers it is essential that you should S
know the plain unvarnished truth inE
'egard to all legislation or principles S
which effect you in your material II
aterest The idea prevails to great n
.xtent that an increased currency IN v
,ur country of whatever material G
would fill your Golfers and everything L
nd everybody be prosperous and Ia
Iappy, no doctrine could be more 81
roneons or more ruinous, If put into II
'raetice SO far as you are concerned.
pur best cotton is selling for cents, "
impose our currency was increased 81
ntil it would bring 12 cents All
hings that you would lave TO buy
Jould increase co-respondingly in -
rice. Now suppose England does not :.
,crease her currency in the same ratio - -
Re do, cotton in Liverpsol when the
rice is fixed and where two thirds of !,
ar crop goes would still remain at
cent basis there, now then, do you ~,
oppose any merchant or broker here ~,
ould buy your cotton at IL cents, and w,
III itin Liverpool for 6cents Thisis
a unanswerable eye opener. 1t is a 1.
gical fact that can not be denied. -,
on would still have cent cotton, =.
it'll which to pay for all you bought On
which You would have to aid in. ..
eased rate of interest, higher wages ~,
r labor ind higher taxes. higher OIL
aveIing rates and higher expenses ne
hen you died and greater poverty for IL.
ose you left behind you. 1t behoov- gro
you ia bring ccol reason TO bear vo,
on this subject and not listen to the apt
rem song of the fellow to whose cor
terest It is to I'll your mind full of Gle
in decisions As long as we speal, ans
write for the ipualIc we shall tell an,
u the naked truth 10 matter what sell
e Consequences We have no ak to dei
ind and would not exchange princi-
1 for any crown on earth. The only ]
an increased currency VIII