The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-09-16
FARMER ANDPLANTER.
THE OUTLOOK FOR COTTON.
The Crop Will Not Exceed Ten Mill
ion Bales, and Farmers Have
Only to Market Right.

it presents itself to-day as being the
most favorable for high price cotton
that has presented itself in twenty
years. To commence with was the
year 1903 with no surplus cotton
ahead, 1904 crop was 13,5S4,4oI, OF
which we will consume by September
! about II, 100000 bales, leaving about
.0O0. 900 bales to start business OF Sep
Der 1, 1905, and then taking the pros
pect of the crop of 1905 not being over /
a nine million bale crop, and taken &C
cording to acreage and condition up TO /,
last report, you can only figure a crop |
of 1897, ESQ. To that you add l,0oo,ooo.
You then have only 9,997 $3.50, about
two and a half million short from the
consumption of 1905 to go over to 1906,
not saying a word about the peace
prospect or extension of our cotton
trade.
Now to take any more cotton than
above figures we should have to make
more per acre than five years av-
erage, which now looks to be impossl-
BILE as our crop report is now below
the average. (See the crop report OF
1900 to 1867 We have the shortest
acreage this year and the lowest re-
port, except one, in the five years.
In 1903 our acreage was 2S,014,S6o,
and we made 1851, 129 which brought
us $500, $40 ,230.S2, and the crop OF 1904
we had 80 Asa, 500 acres, and made To-
5S4.457 bales that brought us $647, 4O5,-
53451.
Notwithstanding the crop OF 1913
was less than that of 1904 by o,iSl, $50
bales, yet it brought us less money oy
s13,143, 697. 81, Notwithstanding we paid
ont for labor alone to raise the crop
of 1904 more than we did 1908 crop by
$1S.349,560 You see small crop pays
us much better, and small acreage is
the KEY to the cotton situation. The
acreage for 1905 is about 26,179,o3S, the
smallest that has been in the last nVe
years, and with the average Tor nVs
years multiplied with the acreage OF
1905. II makes a crop of about nine
million bales Figure from any stand
YOU please and you can't figure over
ten million bale crop, and it can bt
figured as low as eight million for 100
with believable figures.
So, you see with intelligent market
ing your crop, we may expect goo'
price and the thing to do when cotIoi
drops below ten cents is to stop righ
off selling your cotton; and not insis
on cotton going over 121A cents 10
high prices are just as destructive .
our good as low prices. Don't thin
that since we have been successful L
forcing the price up one time to livin
prices that we can do anything W
wish to. You must remember that ther
are other places than can raise cotto
besides the states of the south.
But you need not fear compeuuo
anywhere as long as cotton stays d.
low 1917 cents. There is nothing III
der the sun YOU can clothe man Wit
as cheap as you can with cotton
12H cents. For instance, take suit
cotton goods worth ten dollars, p'
them on the scales and weigh ther
and they won't weigh ten pounds.
YOU see that the producer of the ra
material only gets one dollar OF IN
money when he gets ten cents p
pound for his cotton. You take yo'
hat that you wear every day on yo
head and it costs you 81. Weigh 1t al
II won't weigh five ounces; so you
the farmer only gets two and hs
cents for the raw material for MS III
and perhaps he might have been I
very man who raised that cotton a.
sold il for .02h and brought 1t ba
4. for
see there is great margin betwe
the farmer and manufacturer, thou
II is important that we should
cripple our home manufactures. Y
should all work tremendously togetf
and get a good living out OF our lab'
and our products and equally div
the profit. Then America can mar
facture her own cotton to a finish a
send her finished goods to the forei
countries instead of her raw mater
Cotton will be the king OF Eurs
and the south the queen OF the COZ
try. So brother Alliancemen take FRI
courage This can only come by
ranization of the wise heads OF
south: then by all means get our for
In good shape and then farming in
south for nothing but the pleasure
Europe will be day Of the past.
Market your cotton as long as
stays from ten to twelve and ah
but just as soon as it gets below
cents stop right off and positively
fuse TO sell until some one will see
to give you ten cents, which will
ways come If it can't be bought
less.
II you are not member OF Sc
farmers organization. go at once
join the Farmers Alliance or Cot
Growers association and get ready
the battle and make the south pros
Gus and the people will be hal
Your servant,
w. X. CULBRETl
Robson Co, n. c.