The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-01-29
High PIiees of the Product
Cause Prominent Farmers
10 Decide TO Raise Id.
A Profitable Price Guaranteed
for This Year by the Column
bia Cotton Mill Co..
Which Makes
LIBERAL OFFER 70 PLANTERS.

The high price of cotton has had the
effect OF arouslng great deal of gnIer
est IN that STAPLE among the farmers o
MaurY County, and as result, it i:
likely that the present season may set
more cotton planted in this county thar
for years before. Many farmers have
/ already declared that they intend tC
give considerable attention to the raising
/ of this product this year Years ago
Maury ounty was one of the most i'm.
| POI tant cotton counties OF this section
and the annual yield was anywhere
! from l6, coo to 10000 bales. TO show
| how the crop has dwindled, prominent
| cotton man said yesterday that the out
put of the county the past year will not
exceed 500 bales.
There is no doubt that cotton crop
this year will prove to be paying one.
The price of the staple has been stsad-
ly rising for the past eight months, and
/ at New Orleans Monday the July pro,
duet went to 10 cents pound Ali last
fall the price was good, ranging around
~ cents, and every Indication points to
the price holding up ali this year. This
is shown by the confidence of cotton
men, in their offers for this years crop.
Mr.. Meade Frierson, manager Of the
Columbia Cotton Mill Co, stated Mon
day that he would contract right now
for all the cotton Maury county farmers
will deliver to him next October at
eleven cents pound. This shows that
the belief of the cotton men, and they
talk that way all over the country, is
that cotton is bound to stay up.
Most evhry farmer knows that there is
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in fact, cotton at 10 cents is about as
profitable a crop as the farmer can
raise,-and when it is known that the
chances are better for IL and IL cents
next fall than for 10 cents, Maury county
farmers will doubtless put in a good
cotton crop this year. In addition to
the price realized for the cotton itself,
the seed from each bale is worth $40, so
that 10 cent cotton means $40, to the
farmer for every bale he produces.
In order to give the farmers of Maury
county the advantages of steady market
for cotton. either in the seed, or in the
bale, the Columbia Cotton Mill Go. has
gone to work on the erection Of an up
to da te cotton gin, which will be ready
by this next fall This will enable the
producer to sell his crop, whether large
Or small, at top prices whenever it is
ready for market. Mr.. Meade Frierson,
Manager also say that the Columbia |
Cotton Mill Co. has made arrangements |
to furnish the best seed to any farmer
who desires to plant cotton and will |
store the product until such time as the |
price is satisfactory to the producer.
just stop and think how much money |
would have been brought into Maury
this year, with clifton at Is
cents pound, if Maury County farms
had produced the cotton they produced
twenty years ago Ii they had raised
10000 bales, that would have brought
our farmers Sl,20O,0O0. This is well
worth the attention or Maury County
farmers, who have been troubled with
poor wheat crops for the past few years.
Several prominent farmers have already
stated that they intend ty plant con
siderable number of acres this year in
cotton. ~
1t will pay our farmers to plant cotton
ibis year, for it is almost certainty
hat they will reap handsome profit
,ext fall. Maury County farms
ire tired Of wheat and corn, which
hey have been growing for twenty
ears. Planting cotton on level
and would prevent the old objection to
hat crop as to washing the land, and it
you'd not hurt it any more than
ny other crop would.