The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-31
Farmers should Heed.

Tho Practical Farmer SAYS. White the
Southern cotton farmers are in moro
prosperous condition 10y reason OF the
higher price OF their product they SHOULD
remember that this higher price is duo
20 the small crop and the scarcity Of cot
ton from two small crops in succession.
Hence they should not be- induced by this
higher price to put in "a larger area or
land In cotton than they can treat in the
most thorough manner for a crop. Even
IN this year OF bad cotton crops We know
men In the upland country of the South
who have adopted modern methods Of
farming and are practicing "a good rott-
ton and feeding stock. ard whlls thcir
neighbors made little CROPS these men
have made IN some Instances. bale per
acre or nearly So. when a bale per acre
brings SO for the lint alone. md the
seed is 50 high as 10 almost. ~ moi
quite pay the cost OF production. cotton
becomes very profitable crop 10 the good
farmer. When the Southern farmer
ahandons the notion Of 50 many acpcs
to the mile and works IN a systematic
way for so much per acre. ne will be- "a
far better condition TO meet low prices
The men who take four or Eve acres 20
get a bale OF cotton ARE swamned when
the price goes down 70 9 cents per pound
while the man who. by good
farming. makes bale ond
grows forage and makes manure
from stock and money from the
feeding. can still make money from his
cotton. because he has less Of bills to
pay out OF the cotton crop and does no.
belong 10 the fertilizer mixer or the town
merchant. The man who grows only cot
ton. and has 20 make his entire living
from that one crop keeps 40 breeding
animals on his place ana buys even tho
mules which work the cotton. out OF the
proceeds OF his one crop. has TOO many
eggs IN one basket. and when low pri .es
come he IS ruined by them. DO not as
sumo that because cotton paws better than
any other crop az present that you can
not afford TO grow anything else The
growing q the auxiliary crops will tend
TO the cheaper production OF the cotton
crop and make II more profitable The
man who goes TO the oil mill and hauls
home bales OF cottonseed hulls 10 feed
his animals with when he might grow the
finest OF hay Tor them Is simply acting
as agent for the cotton brokers and the
fertilizer merchants. The man who sells
all the cotton seed and returns no meal
TO his land. Is selling his capital of and
g. a spendthrift The meal should come
back to the land after the oil Is extracted
either as a fertilizer direct or a part OF
o well-balanced ration for cattle aud the
making OF the finest Of manure for the
land. Properly managed with good farm
ing and stock feeding the cotton crop Of
the South should make the farmers rich
for the varied products OF the crop are
daily anding more profitable uses. Now
that Il Is stated that a process has been
discovered by which the cotton seed oil
may be made TO take the place OF unsccd
oil In paints, the chances are that tho
seed OF the cotton plant h. 10 become It's
most valuable product and the cotton the
by-product. All this means that better
farming with cotton should be more and
more the rule. IL Is not the number OF
acres that will give you the best returns
but the getting OF tho largest product POS
sible per acre.