The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-12

Corresppudeuce Of The Progressive Farmer.
The FLOWING items are taken
from lasr weeks issue of the Manu-
fa~cturer's REQ Drd and are significant
''Three hundred and forty-seven
load of G 1T n seed we're recei ved at
Henderson. Texas, October Goth, On
wag rnz TIE cotton oil mill at Hem
ders,n b ught nine tenths Of the
seed a. pTlc-s ranging from SIS to
s21 per : II This is the highest
price ever paid for seed at that Texas
point"
"The New York Journal of Com
meroe AMI Bulletin in revie wing the
market saws: In cotton seed there
is the Same hgut on between reiners
and cru-h-rs ON one side, controlled
by wuat planters consider u trust,
and the planters themselves. The
latter have resisted so far very sue
o~essfullY an attempt of the former
to make tie price of seed far below
what the price IF oil would warrant
compared with former years. Fail
ing, the producers have been trying
to break the price of oil for its effect
on seed, and the absence of export
demand has helped them without
selling any considerable stuff. The
fight IL SILL on
The feet item would indicate shat
there are some very stupid old mill
men IN Texas, judging by the views
of your correspondent, Martin V.
Calvin, III Il recent issue of HE R
GREssIvE FARMER. Mr.. Gavin is d
fluent writer and evidently knows
what he is writing about. While he
is u sr1ckler tor facts, according TO
his written statement, he juggles
some OF them and leaves others IN
told
His statement that there r 500
cotton oil mills in the SOUTH may be
true, hut 1 dare say 100 Of them do
half the business that is done. He
refers 10 d statement going the
rounds that a syndicate, meaning
fertilizer companies, now have con
troll of 80 per cent. of the oil mills,
and ha was so much interested in
the statement that he got the facts
in the matter, and here they Ire "a
he sets them forth: 1.-THE southern
Cotton Oil @ pmpany own so mills,
T-AL-- IN1 n -,
pany owns 40 mills, OF 20 per
oent. of the mills of the South
I happen to know that he is very
much mistaken in the numher OF
mills owned by the Southern Cotton
Oil Company, unless l have been
misinformed by a prominent membrr
of the CDmpany. just here l will
say that his member gave identically
the same reasons and used the same
argument about blood, tankage, etc,
of the We-tern fertilizer men, shat
Mr. Calvin did, for buying up the
cotton oil mills. So that point has
been established by two witnesses,
Mr. Calvin and the other oil mill
man.
The statement that l saw in the
papers said that the combine
owned so per cent measured by out.
put of the mills-a state ment that is
not far from the truth. They have
bought MP the large mills in this
CT, ~ 1-e& Ah1 ay,.1T S-Ia,l ~~,S14z
that is TO say, mills not IN the rail
roads, a method they have probably
pursued in other States.
The Oliver Mill, in Charlotte, has
a capacity equal to several small
mills, but Mr.. Calvin evidently
counts all mills equal in his esti
mate. His letter on the cotton seed
question was written for the same
purpose that Mr.. Mills estimate on
the cotton crop two years ago., that
cost the cotton farmers millions of
dollars, was sent out. Mr.. Calvin ia
evidently connected with the cotton
oil combine and is wanting to con
vince the farmers that they should
sell their cotton seed for 81 cents a
bushel.
He says: "It should not concern
the farmers what is alleged to have
been agreed upon by cotton seed
buyers as TO the price, which should
rule this year. The fact is they are
paying 81 cents cash per bushel for
all the seed delivered at their doors,
or they are exchanging one ton of
seed for one hundred bushels of