The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-05-25
asucH INcREAsE On AeEEAGE

ssThe Constitution says it has read
royernment pamphlet which asserts
Shat the acreage mas been increased
rom Is to 90 per cant, and the Con-
itusion puts the possible increase at
50 I-3 per cent. Such talk Is prepos..
4eroUs. The New York Journal Of
5,onmsrce puts the increase at 10 per
cart, but that is too much, because
An saree sections Of Texas, MISSISSIPPI,
Aiabama and South Carolina the In
ersasa has mot been over s or per
sens. It will take. only moments
hought TO convince q man who KNOWS
anyShing about cotton that to add one
Shsrd to the acreage would have been
IaDossible. Think what it would
.sean. Last years crop, with good
seasons, would have been u, 600, 600.
rs increase that, acreage one-thlrd, as
4he Constitution, is talking about,
yculd mean, with good seasons, a
5GoOu 0o8 bale crop. What better ar
gunen5 could the Wall street cotton
ISaars want than that? j am astonisbed
such twaddle from the Constitn-
szon. H the country were TO- accept
Euch predictions as based on fact the
srmsrs would lose many millions OF
d0lsa1s. I have seen but one man
sThof6as taken Issue with the Constitu-
-faS;nn. and he isa Georgian who is pro-
Esssorin college IN Michigan. be has
aken time to think before expressing
ss opinion, and he figures out an In
c1ease of between 5 and 10 per cent. !"
What is your own estimate OF the
z;z0p?',s2 p
a perfect cotton CROP said Colo
,,xszIea Brown, starts in December and
s1ds with the last day OF the next
s5ecamber. The lands must be veil
sSrepared and well fertilized. There
ssa1cst be good seasons the crop must
loa well cultivated and there must be
good time in which TO gather the CROP
ri Eays seen aeessons make full crop
ard lose half of iE before it could be
ra4hered. The outlook now is-not
snrumising. There Ere many thousands
az acres in which the seed has not
sproused,. on account Of the dry wealth
&c there comes big packing rain
ON sueh land some OF this cotton may
have to be planted over. Cotton that
Ia still IN the ground means late cot
Lon. and "a late crop means a short
crop. Then there is the boil weeVil.
q do not see Why the weevil will not
do even more damage than last year,
sbecause 70 way of protecting cotton
AGAINST that pest has yet been devised
ar discovered. I DO aot lcok for more
.than II, ,00O, 600 bales, and an 1900,
900 bale crop oaght TO bring 1919
cents
e elf the farmers. listen to this big
cotton crop ADVICE" continued Colo
.-eel Brown, sit will cause a famine in
Geergia next year. I speak the words
adyiseoly,' continued the colonel,
~ho observed the expressions. of aston
isnmens on the faces of those who
heard him. "There came near being
q famine in my section last year.
saw time iu Hawkinsville when
-2here was not sack Of meal, q sack
Of corn, q sack of oats or bale Of
-hay ia the town. One farmer did not
hare il to sell or lerd to neighbor.
The railroads could not haul the pro-
visions in as fast as they could be
eaten rp By the mules and negroes.
at is fact. IL Georgia abandons her
=log and bcmips policy the rs lroads
iron the West will have TO be double
Cracked to haul provisions to the
xsxeople. -
Fou are right about it, said Col
orel Gnpby Jordan. who was present.
Colcnei Brown says there is hardly
"A sack OF Western corn received at this
Aesue of the year shat is at to be fed
aso. enules. He lost thirteen mules in
-ane year some time ago because 9
negro fed them on Western com
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