The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-01-11
WILL HELP FARMERS
TO HOLD THEIR COTTON
Virginia Carolina COmrany's President
Gives Instructions TO AgentE-LesS
Acreage Accommodated.

NirGinin-Carollna COmrany's President
Gives Instructions to ARentE--LeEs
Acreage Accommodated.
S. II. Morgan. president OF the Vir-
ginLa Carolina Chemical company, has
written n letter of instruction to the
sales division managers of the COM
pany which Is Of interest to cotton
growers because OF the information
contained. Mr.. Morgan does not ad-
wise farmers either 10 hold cotton OF
sell. but he does advise less acreage
and cultivation. He says:
The treasurer of this company is
having 80 many requests to extend
the. notes OF some OF our customers
paying their bills. and who desire to
hold their cotton, stating that they
believe they will get more for the
cotton later on, that this company has
concluded TO Issue n general letter Oh
the subjeSt, as follows:
Any farmer or merchant who may
be owing your division money and
who has cotton which he desires to
hold, you are at liberty to extend his
note for him for six months from Jan.
1st with interest at the rate of per
cent. per annun. provided he will de-
post sufficient cotton to pay the note
In any reliable Warehouse and will
turn over to you warehouse receipts
the insurance on said cotton and make
no charge against your customer for
this item.
We do not pretend to offer advice
to our customers to hold cotton. but
we do intend to offer them every
facility and accommodation in our
power to hold their cotton, II. in their
good judgment, 1t is best. Whatever
inures to the benefit of the agricultural
classes Of the south is to our benefit:
10 tool I,
We are more closely and intimately
connected with the cotton grower of
the south than any dozen other con-
Germs combined. They are our Gus
toners in the purchase Of fertilizers.
and we are their customers in the pur-
chase OF cotton seed. We both sell
! and buy Of them, and deal in every
cotton growing county from Texas 10
Virginia. Therefore. anything that will
improve the agricultural conditions or
help the farmer must necessarily bene-
| ut us. and II holding their cotton will
be Il benefit to them, 1t Is our desire
to aid them in this as far as rye can.
Other farm products. aside a., cot
full values. and we believe It would
be wise in the farmers to sell any of
their other surplus farm products
which would materially aid them in
holding their cotton.
We also are Of the opinion that the
acreage last year devoted to cotton
was too large. and that II never could
have been cultivated in a normal sea-
son; The good weather during the
spring enabled the farmers to cuIti-
vnte every acre they planted: conse-
Iuently the tremendous big crop of
this year. AS ordinarily it would be
| impossible to cultivate sucn an enor-
NOUS acreage. we believe 1t would be
decrease the acreage. If 1t was de-
| creased, 10 per cent. it would mean q
| reduction of more than a million bales
| next year, even If the crop yielded as
much per acre as 1t did this year.
1t strikes us that. what the farmer
lowest possible cost. The profit de-
| rived from growing cotton Is not SO
much the price of cotton as the cost
at which the crop has been grown
Mules and horses are high, much high
er than a few years ago; the price OF
farm labor is high and scarce. There-
fore every acre cultivated means a
large expenditure. It costs more to
cultivate an acre of land growing q
quarter of a bale Of cotton than one
growing bale. In the latter instance
the plant soon; grows up and shades
the land, consequently the grass does
bot grow SO rapidly or luxuriantly.
The cheapest Item that can be used
mercial Fertilizers. used literally. with
a liberal application of fertilizers the
FARMER can grow bale j o., cotton
where he has heretofore grown half a
bale, and do 1t with the same cost OF
mules and labor, and the additional
quantity Of seed grown. will, more than
| pay for the extra amount of fertilizers
used. Therefore, encourage your Gus
IoMers to reduce their acreage ana tc
increase the amount Of commercial
fertilizers per ACRE, believing as I we
do that this Is the way. and the only
j way 10 raise cheap, cotton. .!,.iF ~
arouna 100000 bales Of cotton or the,
Will find In o year or two, the balance
OF the world competing, with them II
/ growing this staple and our foreign
market largely supplied from SOURCES
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