The Brunswick times-call., 1901-04-20

opportunities presented with such Law
ish hand.
"OnwardI'' Is the Word.
When Georgia in her hour of need
summoned her SONS to defend her rights
and honor, the offering of property and
life was spontaneous and general, When
the heel of the oppressor was upon her,
her sons, amid appalling adversiries,
wrought by the blessing of God her re-
demption. Will they prove laggards
now, when fortune smiles and points
the way to greatness and wehlth? No.
Already the onward march has begun,
and it will continue until Georgia
stands in the front rank on all lines of
industry, inferior in no particular to
any star of our grand constellation of
sovereign states.
Cotton.
So many of the farmers of Georgia
understand the cultivation of cotton
that the principal thing to be said on
this subject is to give o note of warning
against an increase of the acreage, with
consequent increase of the supply
over the demand and the reduction of
the price of the staple below the point
OF reasonable profit TO the planter.
Many of our most progressive farmers
have, by intelligent use of the best
methods, restored exhausted lands and
caused them to show a production
| almost equal to that of the original
virgin soil. In fact, such has been the
advance of Georgia on this line as to
elicit, years ago, from the compilers of
the United States census the compli-
| mentary statement that "the high posi-
ton of Georgia is due, not to natural
| advantages, but to better cultivation OF
the SOIL the use of fertilizers, and the
thrift of an industrious population.
The one thing that the Georgia cot.
ton growers need to learn Is. how to
nying low prices.
If, however, they will raise such food
supplies as may be counted among the
necessities of life, and thus make cotton
a surplus money crop, low prices will
never again be as disastrous as they
have been in the past.
But If. in spite Of all warning and In
defiance of all past experience the farm.
ers persist in ON increase of the acreage
in cotton, we may look for crop much
larger than that Of last year and Of ne.
cessity decrease in the price
While at the same time the produc.
ton Of that crop will cost them more
than 1t has in many years, on account
Of the increased cost of food supplies
mules. fertilizers, labor and other
things.
Combination to Reduce the Price.
There appears even now strong evi.
dence of combination among cotton
mills, domestic and foreign. cotton fac.
tors and cotton manipulators, that will
prove disastrous to farmers in case Of
too large crop. For then the setting
of the price of cotton will not be with
the farmer, as 1t was last year.
What, then, farmers of Georgia, is
our duty to ourselves and at the same
time the protection of our great money
crop2 1t is moro corn and peas, more
sugar cane and potatoes, moro food
supplies, more beef cattle and more
dairy products. and after these things
as much cotton as we can raise. Then
we can still name the price of our sta
pie.
The warning has already been sound.
ed from Liverpool to New York and
from New York to New Orleans, from
large buyers to small, that they will not
another year pay the prices that have
ranged during this season. They say
this because they believe that the farm.
ers will greatly increase the crop of this
year. o. B. STEVENS,
Commissioner.