The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-03
ssAND THE COLLINS WILL GET YOU IF YOU
DON'T LOOK OUT.

1904 to 7O,963 bales, the white popula
ton increased from 34,20S to 47,629 and
the negro population decreased from 2525
to PASS.
| The following statement from President
J. c.. Hardy, of the Mississippi Agricul-
tural College, presents facts that support
the position of the Manufacturers Re-
cord:
/ 'Lowndes county, with three negroes
to one white man, having 21,972 blacks
and 7121 whites, requires 3.15 acres TO
make a bale of cotton, while Jones
| county, with three whites to one negro,
having 1856 whites and 1870 blacks,
requires 1893 acres to make bale. The
| farm lands of Jones county are valued,
| as found in the census report, at $2.SJ
| an acre, and the farm lands of Lowndes
county are valued at 1888 an acre. Yet
the poor lands of Jones county, under
intelligent cultivation, produced nearly
twice as much per acre as the rich lands
| of Lowndes county when cultivated
mostly by negroes. Noxubee county. with
more than five blacks to one white, haV-
| ing 26,146 blacks and 1859 whites, re-
| quires $50 acres to make a bale of cot
ton, while Union county, with three
whites to one black having 1880 whites
and 4142 blacks, requires only 2.56 acres
to make a bale The farm lands of Nox-
uhee county are valued at $7.12 and the
| lands of Union are valued at 81 81. Kinds
county, with three negroes to one white
man, having 1881 blacks and 13.037
whites, requires ESQ acres to make
| bale, while Perry county, with more than
two whites to one negro, requires only
1876 acres to make a bale. The farm
lands of Kinds are valued at three times
as much as are those OF Perry. In the
counties OF Leflore, Bolivar and Wash
ington, where they have about eight ne
groes to one white man. but almost with
out exception the negroes are under
white managers, they make one bale 70
every acre and a half, while in Lowndes.
Noxubee and Monroe, where not many
white managers are employed, they make
on an average about one bale to three
acres. While this difference is partly
caused by a difference in the fertility
of the two groups of three counties, yet
! the principal reason is due to the superior
intelligence used in the management of
the first group. This is proven by tho
fact that in every comparison made be-
| tween a white county and a black one the
black was the most fertile, yet the white
was nearly twice as productive"
The second scare-crow that is brought
out to brighten cotton growers is that
1.-The high price will induce the English
men and the Germans and others to lend
all their efforts toward finding a section
| g h.
on big scale at a lower figure than IN
the United States, thus taking away tie
South's monopoly"
This is nothing new. During the War
Between the States, when cotton was
greedily sought at from fifty cents to one
dollar a pound, England and the coun-
tries Oh the continent spent millions of
dollars trying to grow cotton. All dur
Ing the war, Northern mills were sending
all over the world trying to get cotton.
And ever since there has been a system
attic effort to grow cotton by every Euro
pean country that has colonies. Some
| SUCCESS has been attained in Egypt, in
America The fact that the success has
been attained in only the smallest de
gree is not due to the lack of effort and
expense. If there is any spot Of land on
the earth's surface that will grow cotton
that spot will be found, and this is true
whether cotton brings FIVE cents a pound
1 fxuo five oh
ton will stimulate efforts, but nothing
could stimulate them SO much as the War
Between the States when enough cotton
could not be had at any price. Therefore
the South will not run at this cry 1.-The
COLLINS will get you if you don't watch
out"
Mr. Edward Atkinson, Of Boston, who
has devoted much OF his life to trying
to free spinners from what he terms the
'unwholesome but practical monopoly of
the cotton commerce" admits that IT.
South still holds this practical monopoly
and that it will continue to hold it. His
view is not merely q personal opinion.
1t is based upon long experience, and
in detail it will interest everybody in the
South Writing to the Manufacturers Re-
cord, Mr. Atkinson says:
During the civil war l was in con-
slant correspondence with the Cotton
Supply Association of Manchester, Eng
land by whom every effort was made
to get a substitute for American cotton.
was then spinner. l imported and
spun samples of every type of cotton
produced anywhere, using many thou
sand bales of India cotton during that
period. My conclusions were:
First That owing to the physical ge-
ography of the cotton states and CT
Texas, the mountains lying back of the
! cotton lands on the Atlantic coast III
tercepting the humid atmosphere brought
up by the gulf stream leading to frequent
showers, seldom destructive rains, gave
the ideal conditions for growing cotton
on the uplands, and a like measure of
humidity coming in from the Gulf of
Mexico rendered the conditions of tae