The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-12
Estimated That Uncle Sans Sans,
Crop This Year y Will VI ! 8sb be- iii
Six Billion Pounds.
HOW $lT8 MAY B Be INCREASED / {! ! E: Sc:
What John Bull and the l Kaiser yet,
Are Doing i, Africa7-1l:i1 npo'ars-
tant New Discoveries.
BY Frank G. Carpenter.

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BY Frank g. Carpenter.
N Especial Correspondence 81 rho 1iint 'sE.
X si.i. 81 n u Dispatch fiS AZ n
<Copyright, 1901, by Frank q. Carpcntcrr.)
b IA 'WAs1IlNGTON, D. G. Al Feb. I've Y,
raised enough cotton lust ycnr To ma ko
Il suit II clothes for every man, woman
h and child upon earth, The crop Is es ,..
!. tlmated at twelve million bales or, In
other words, at slx billion pounds. It
4 viii bring to tho South $3.50, ooo, 900. " More
than s3o0.Ooo.o0 900 worth OF It Will 80 across
n the water, and Its value Will return III
y hard gold dollars to Uncle Sans pockets
4 Tho balance viii be used In our own
fact cries, @nortl, and SOUTH We a have
now more than 1000 cotton mills. which
annually eat up about two billion pounds
Of raw cotton They employ hundreds
4 OF thousands OF hands, and make a PR o.
duct which sells for more than $500 200. y
900 per annum. i. s3 Il u 8 33Sf
This gives some idea or what cotton
" means To- tho United States. It is one
y OF our king crops, and 1.-The great money
Il crop OF tho South. ~ IT. can be; in
~ creased the whole country will be richer
& III It falls on we arc that much poorer.
within tho past few years 4 tho Agri-i
cultural Depa rtmcnt has had Its scientists
studying cotton II has #estnblishedE ex-
N pcri,nental farms different paris Of
the South. & IT has the best OF the arm-
Y crs making experiments OF their own N
some sections. and 4 az a result It has
i8t made discoveries whereby It Is said that
IN
. per cent, without any additional expense
except the cost Of picking. % ssS q
Uncle Sam, M oney Maker. NJ
81 Unclo sam ii now playing patriarch.
& He Is taking moro care OF his children
5 than over before. Through the great
& government apartments he Is teaching
them how to save and Invest their money
"A A. grte.t work OF this kind Is being done
II by tho Agricultural Department. and
that " especially In s4 the line OF cotton
Y raising I had Il a tai day with DR..
A. B. T. Gall owny. who has spent =years II,
tho Southern States studying cotton and
tho possibility Of Increasing that crop
Il BY better methods Of cultivation fLl> pr.
d plant Industry and all his work Is done
3 for tho government. Said he: an ss555
55,.The United States will always DO the
chief cotton country OF the world Our
climate and soil nre Just fitted for cot
ton, and we have recently Invented labor =
4. saving machinery which will enable US
Il to hold this industry u gal Inst any ma ton.
on earth. IS al It Is. the crop Is steadily
"a growing. Until the civu war ~ wo X h:s W
4 half million bales. In ] S98 we produced
7 more than twlcetthat amount.}nn our re-
ports fromRthe South now show tn we
n shall haveimore than twelve mill bal
this year. All the cotton raised by tho
world does not figure up more than az
& teen million bales SO that three. fourths
Of all the cotton used by maj Is now rails
ed}here.
How One Man Made 1000.
Il ~ have Just received n letter from Ter
: rell. Tex continued Or. Galloway
(which shows what can be done by prop
u er cultivation The cotton produce v OF
that region has been Oily decreas-S
Il Ing. owing to the lack OF fcrtillzat ton and
T the boil wcevIl. TO show what might pc
done by better farming the department
organized O demonstration farm, Mt that
& place. Al It got one OF the planters to set
aside twenty acres for the purpose and
70 take charge OF the work. The farm-
ers and business men here became In s
tcrestcd in the subject. They wanted
tho experiment tried. and raised q purse OF
500 to}lnsure the planter against my loss.
i Tho man & planted and cultivated Is his
twenty acres und or the Erection OF the
department. and as n result he not only
made the full amount Of $500. which
+; should have been his ordinary profit up
on that much land, but also $500 nd &
5ditional., In other words, out OF that
B twenty acres he made s1,500 more than
\ was mad o out OF any similar area IN the
cotton fields arjolnlng timf Gull ted In
\ tho ordinary way. He was 80 Impressed
a.. -. ,Aor1 a Il
year under the same management he
has kept n strict account OF all his ex-
penses, , Including labor, seed, picking,
e bnling stock feed and interest on tho
"A value OF his farm, and the entire cost Tor
tho year has aggregated ~, 744. As a re =. :.
suit he has made n crop OF 24b pales oi
\ cotton fields nd joining him cultivated n
n : Ii giving him a clear net profit
OF $1,000. IIe has twenty bales yet to
pick and this Will give hlnl3 81 900 more
al the samo time lands clil tivated In the
old way have little more than paid their
expenses Es, s5t III sS.
Long Staple Cotton for the % r.
IL. lands. .5s,s5 /
"Does tho character OF the cotton seed
,oake much dlfferenccg, Z asked. iyss
'I,.Yes. that Is one OF the vita points
In tho Industry, We are citing he best
seed from all parts Of the world and are
giving each locality that which gro We
best for that locality. We arc MARRYING
,jifrcrent kinds OF cotton and producing
hybrid children. which will grow !, we'll
under7 conditions where neither Of the
parents did well before. yVc have cross
4 Cd the Sea Island cotton with the ordinary
upland cotton and. as a result, have Y
added a great deal to tho length Of the
staple. We have brought In cotton from
Egypt and have married that to our na n
tive cotton with good results. We are
also using the Egyptian cotton seed ana NJ
we expect to- develop q cotton that WI
DO .llst ms good II not betterith the
4 Egyptian We are now importing Sl5,-s
100000 worth OF Egyptian cotton q year
Ire past summer VIC had IN Egyptian
government official here studying our cot
tom He visited all the Southern. states 80