The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-29
HOW TO GET
 MOST FOR COTTON
SOME VERY GOOD ADVICE TO
 GROWERS.
A Large Cotton Producer Talks of the Crop and its Value if Handled ProperIy-HnIf the Crop Should be Held Back-Seed Lower
 Than Last Year-Some Interesting Fig.
 ures and Facts,

Charlotte Observer.
 This seems to be the day of the farmer, and he is disposed to make the most of it; he is keeping posted in a general way, and on cotton in particular.
 An Observer man had a talk, yes- terday, with one of the leading cot- ton growers of the State, and got from him a splendid idea, and some inter- himself thoroughly practical by his success; he Is nothing of a dreamer. He has over 500 acres in cotton this year. and his crop will be twenty per cent less than 1t was last year.
 In answer to the cotton question: What do you think of the cotton sit- uationT
 The cotton crop now being har- vested can be made the most valuable crop ever gathered. If the farmers will act in concert and on similar lines. In every State. county and community. There Is now no question of the crop being a moderate. if not a very small one, compared to what was ex- pected two, yes one month ago. The whole spinning world is depleted of cotton; must have cotton, no matter what the cost. The present crop can be made to average at least twelve cents If not fifteen cents per pound to the grower. if the growers will gin and sell cautiously. If only half the cotton picked each week Is placed on the market and the other half held back. either stored in bonded ware house, when money must be obtained, or stored on the farms either ginned and baled or in the seed; tfere would be no glutting the market for October, November. December, which is the very condition the speculators want, in order that they may be able to buy what will be active demand the world over. at much higher prices after Jan uary 1st.
 What Is true of cotton Is also true of cotton seed. The oil mills are en- tering the crushing season with cot ton seed oil ten cents per gallon low CT than last year or for the last five years, and consequently the mills can not pay by $5 per ton as much as they paid all through the last season for seed.
 We have almost indentfcally the same condition in all crops affecting cotton oil as existed for the season of 1S92-1893 when cotton oil went to sixty five cents per gallon In February 1893. We have a very short crop of wheat this year. as compared with the crop for several years past. There is no old wheat to be had at any price, and the present price for wheat Is thirty-five per cent higher than last year.
 The present corn crop prospects are for a crop smaller than in ten years, with perhaps one exception, and if as short as now predicted. corn will go to seventyflve cents and perhaps high CT, per bushel. A short crop and high prices for corn means a short crop and high prices for hogs: and with hogs high. lard will be high. and high pric- ed lard means high priced cotton oil; then why not high prices for cotton seed paid to the farmers?
 The crop of linseed now being har- vested in the Northwest Is only about one-half to three-flfths the crop har- vested last year, and the result Is, lin- seed Is forty per cent. the oil about thirty per cent, linseed cake and meal thirty-hve to forty per cent higher.
 But the United States Is not tho only country with short crops. All of the European countries without a sim