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

would not now be selling for as much
a 81 cents a bushel.
M. Calvin says the combine does
not want tO shut out competition,
vt it is dong all it can to keep the
price of seed down, as is shown by
this paragraph from the New York
journal of Commerce and Bulle In
"'The planters so far haze resisted
gerry successfully an attempt of the
oil mills to make the price of seed far
6eIoU what the price of oil o0Outd
aOnrrant compared NTH former
years" The New York Journal of
Commerce does not make Loose state
ments concerning commercial mat
tiers. It's reput4tiOn as an authority
on such subjects is at stake and it's
circulation depends on it's accuracy
and truthfulness in this respect.
According 80 Mr.. Calvin, they DO
not want to shut out competition,
but see what they resorting to. The
Journal of Commerce further says
"Failiug, the producers have been
trying to break the price of oil for
ira effect on seed There it ia in Il
nutshell. The farmers advanced the
price of cotton seed because the
price of oil and meal justified the ad-
vapce. The combine finding the
farmers firm in their position, resort
to trying t0 break the price of oil so
as to justify the lowing of the price
of seed. l cannot conceive of a more
detestable thing for them to resort
to
What is it but competition that
run the price Of seed in Texas up TO
$18 per ton and even up TO $21 per ton
-27 cents to 81 cents a bushelP Yet
Mr.. Calvin says this combine does
not want TO shut out competition. If
his statement in this respect is true,
why do they not pay the farmers the
% cents a bushel they are asking?
If the mill in Henderson, Texas, can
pay 81 cents a bushel, surely the
trust mills can paw 25 cents a bu4hel
in North Carolina, and the other
cotton growing States.
Mr. Calvin goes into a calculation
showing that a ton of cotton seed is
worth only 50 Is TO the farmer,
whereas he can sell it to the oil mill
for Shrinking 81 25 by the trans
acti n. He says nothing about the
G st OF hauling the seed 10 the mill
and hauling fertilizers back home,
nor does he say anything about the
1915 worth of oil and iinters that
the ton of seed contain. Simply be-
Cause these are not of value as a
man1re Is no reason that the farmer
should get nothing for them. If the
san e rule were applied to the lint it
would scarcely bring anything. The
farmers contend that they should
share in the pr Ats coming from all
the products of the seed, and that
they should receive u price for the
seed commensurate with the prices
of oil, meal, etc
Far ners have obligations and re-
sp1nsibilities resting on them just as
other people have. They have chill
dren to clothe and educate the same
as the oil mill men have. They know
taat the resent price of c,tt)n seed
oil and meal will justify the mills in
paying more than $14 a ton for seed,
Mr. Ctlvin's letter to the contrary
n ,twithstanding.
And 1t IS to be hoped that the
farmers of the South will stand firm
and not sell their cotton seed for less
than % cen s a bushel. The indica-
tions are thew will bring that and
more where there's any competition.
Under existing circumstances, Mr..
Calvin will have to write several
letters before he convinces the farm.
ers they ought TO sell their cotton
seed for 21 cents a bushel.
T. B. PARKER.
Orange Co, N. G.
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