The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-02-11

extend credit 10. the who proposes 20 /
plant all his land In cotton or the one whc /
raised his meat and bread and then raises |
much cotton as he can? everybody |
knows how the merchant would answer the /
question Ii may have been that way soon |,
after the war when merchants made big I
profits on all they sold they preferred 10 (
have their customers make all cotton pc
cause it forced the producers OF the cotton
10 buy more. Then the farmer got eno15h
for his cotton to pay for what ne boo6",
and the merchant made money f2st ana
easy. But now If Il farmer went 70 i A"et- b
chant and said, II want you 10 run nv
this year. l haven't got q thing. VIM
buy everything / need from you ahd WI"
plant my whole crop in cotton to pay you
for what / get" the merchant, II he uil
what ne ought to do, would run MN
out of his store with stick. ana thaL
about the only way he would run him-
don'L think anybody urges or expects the
Georgia farmer TO quit raising cotton. ~ d
money crop no country has anything Get
ter and melody considers for moment "a
substitute of any other product or variety
of products for cotton, the money crop
of the south, and for that very reason, be-
cause it is such a good money crop we
ought to be very careful not 70 destroy as
value to US such; therefore, pt4ltVe ~
ought to be reduced
l. by liberal increase of our crops or
corn, peas. grain and hay.
. BY devoting more time to raising hogs,
cattle and colts.
3. BY not buying new mules and increas-
in1 the size of our farms rnis year.
L. BY leaving off guano altogether for
one year
D. By agreement TO reduce our cotton
acreage In connection with the American
Cotton Growers Association q beliVe that
Is the name of IT'D and by determination
to reduce il individually whether anybody
else does or not.
As the strongest argument that can he
used for the increase OF the grain crop
this wear | ask each individual farmer who
reads these lines. what would be your
situation now il you had not made the corn
you did last year? The same Will Apply 10
hogs cattle anu colts.
I won't give any reasons for rot buying
new mules and farming on bigger scale
than We did last year, as l don't suppose
anybody wants TO, ii he IS aoie. by IeaE-
ing off guoro for one yea. beleEt. 50
FAR as the Georgia farmer is concerned, THAT
this will be the NOSE potent factor m the
Cuaro rs very nearly as nigh as it was
three years ago when we got from ~ ~
cents for cotton: that makes ". or q cot
n was then TO illustrate-three years ago
ono ron of guanO could be- bought Tor. say,
an average OF 81. win cotl9" a., ~ No ~
275 pounds of cotton WON" p"y LOT ~.
Now So far as / lave been able to get
prices guano viii sell for. say, So. WIN
cotton at 4 cents IL viii take 500 pounds
Of cotton 10 pay for II. One ton VIII fer
tilize s"v. ten acres. IT. viii take an iu-
crca SO in the yield on those ten acres ~
7S7 pounds iof lint 20 paw expense hatoIt
any profit can cone AS follows. Five f'i:.-
fro5 pounds al lint or 1900 pounds OF seed
cotton to pay for Euano; the picking OF
I 1Ol mounds af 80 cents per 100, $1.N, the
ginning hagging ami hes and naming ~
market, So: making $50 or az cents ~
~. ,rioiuaI cose a0 pounds OF lint cot
ron. ami the expense incurred bv the extra
li.I7 lS7 pounds. makes tot"l as "oove
az ,s1 POUNDS. can We possibly mop. ("
make any profit hv the use ~ guano "hs"
Sc takes that much increase y I@s @.
Nv The us. % ruano then We largely in
crease The crop; but # it an goes ia the
extra expense incurred by It's u.s., are We
No. ratbs- injured than beneftati2
THE mast year. I'm this section, u took
about one-fourth Of the cotton PfoIlct9
10 pay tor the Suano u~"d OF u. rWr.ta
we NOT have made more t17n thrAe-tourto(
as mn en- cotton without guano as We ala
~ r.rira ~ celauo is too high 10 use &c
a., bipb that farmers viii not use u on tE-
cotton CROP of 1875 AZ thls u''t l'"t
wear cotton seed were worth 81 per t'u'
now tHav are worth 81 per Jon-iu~t ~ per
-.r- ,fr cotton seed WuEi the same tf"'"
last wear was worth Si3 Por ton, now, S'r,
about 3 per cent Oft. Another good reason
~ Ar Editor. know there are q
great many people in this country o. ours
vino sean 10 think that somehow 0F o'n't.
before long the government IS gong 70 dn
enmcthfns or SON 81 ming is going - tNIn up
to make times easy, ana give everybody p
uocI5ctful &C money or an once 7" h"'i
down but there are others who know th3t
IT, the meantime they nave GOT ~ Hrip
.p,ar5e.!yas ard Iii strikes me that tho
.,,ova orfline is the best thing farmer can
do for 1Sg5 ;. q. WAithl-
Madison, Ga.
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