The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-02-07
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1910 and More Live Stock Will Bring Ten Cent
Cotton-The Best Way Out:

1O-cent cotton for all time. For the past dozen
years, a stockman, have been preaching the
doctrine that all now understand, e., to get TO-
cent cotton, raise less cotton and stock
grass and corn.
know it is hard to kiss the hand that chastises
US, for good-whatever it is that has
placed the cotton farmer in his present position
is | believe, for his future good.
There is no crop in the world that the farmer is
so completely the master of the situation that
of cotton The world cannot compete It is his
own foolishness that ruins him. 1t is the height
of absurdity to blame the spectators, and, by the
way, he did not blame them last year when the
said speculator the price of cotton II CENTS
thereby putting the price higher than the manu-
facturer could sell his goods, which resulted in
demand cut off and a large percentage lost for
ever.
I'll agree to take the farmers cotton at 10
cents by organizing syndicate to handle it, if
they will only follow this simple plan: Let every
rlow that makes thirty forty of cotton
throughout our Southland cut off twelve acres
from that acreage I'll not speak of corn. for that
will follow if he raises the stock. First, let him
get ten acres of bermuda grass, and that will be
very easy for the most of them, and then in the
next sixty days plant two acres of alfalfa (bet-
ter fve). This can be done this spring. This
means ten twelve acres of the finest pastures in
the world, and the first step in the stock PROPOSE
ton
Then buy some good stock-he cannot raise
much, hence wants the best, no matter whether
beef or dairy cows, pigs, sheep mares for mule
raising. With his good stock he will want
and his stock industry is then established.
Then forever the question of 1O-cent cotton is
settled.
A recent editorial in a newspaper showed
that Southern farmers get SO per cent more
for corn than does the Western man. He has
his customer in his neghbor. Yet large percent
age of our meal corn and hay comes from the
West.
Mind, / don't argue in favor of raising corn to
compete with the Western man, or wheat. I know
he cannot do it, i. e., in the worlds market for
export. But he can save the railroad transporta-
ton and several commissions by raising what he
and his neighbors need for home consumption.
This profit which he wastes go into his bank
account. He can feed his pigs and save so
per cent profit again
| have just sold my surplus pork fattened on
cow-peas, artichokes and corn, for So per 100
pounds which is over SO per cent saved, against |
my Western brethren. Ny ten acres of bermuda !
grass | expect to raise three or four calves on
so as to have my beef this fall. have plenty
butter, eggs and chickens, and from my half dozen
ltters of Berkshires I'll sell some to my neghbors
and have plenty of pork. Ny alfalfa gives me
ton for ton much protein as does ton of
wheat bran shipped from the West and costing $27
per ton here Ny artichokes, acre, cost me
49, will feed my young pigs two months. Then
they get cow-peas and corn, and one has finer
pork than l.
In such q short letter one can only touch the !