The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-11
WILL HELP FARMERS
hold Their Cotton Until Prices VIII
Warrant Selling.

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Warrant Selling.
This Is What the Virsinia-CaroIina
Chemical Company Has Told
Its Managers to Do.
S T. Morgan, preside deut Of the vir-
ginia. Carolina Chemical company, has
written letter Of instruction to the
sales division Managers OF the COM
pany which Is Of interest to cotton
growers because OF the information
contained. Nj. Morgan doss not sd
wise farmers either to hold cotton or
sell, but be does advise less acreage
and cultivation. BE says:
The treasurer Of this company is
having so many requests to extend
the potes Of some OF our customers
and patrons, who have not finished
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 general letter on
the subjsst, as follows:
Any farmer or merchant who may
be owing your division money and
who has cotton which be desires to
hold, you are at liberty 20 extend his
note for him for six months from Jan.
1st, with interest at the rate OF 6 per
cent. per annum, provided be will de-
posit sufficient cotton to pay the note
in any reliable warehouse and will
turn over to you warehouse receipts
for same. You are authorized to pay
the Insurance on said cotton and make
no charge against your customer for
this item.
We do not p-e.snd to offer advice
to cur customers to hold cotton, but
we do intend to offer them every
facility and accommodation in our
power to hold their cotton, if, in their
good judgment, 1t is Lest. Whatever
inulss to the benefit Of the agricultural
classes OF the south is to our benefit;
our interest is identical with theirs.
We are more closely and intim stely
connected with the cotton grower Cf
the south. than any dozen o5her con
Germs combined. They are our Gus
TONERS in the purchase Of fer5iliz,rs,
and we are their customers In the
purchase Of cotton seed. We both
sell and buy OF them. and deal in every
cotton growing county from Texas to
Virginia. Therefore, anything that
will improve the agricultural condi.
tions or helr the farmer must neces.
sarily benefit US, and il holding t5eir
cotton will be benefit to them, it is
our desire to aid them in this as far
as we can.
Other farm products, aside from
cotton, appear to US to be selling at
very full values, and we believe it
would be wise in the farmers to sell
any OF their other surplus farm pro-
ducts 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 it never could
have been cultivated in a normal sea-
son. The good weather during the
spring enabled the farmers to culti-
vate every acre they planted; conse-
Quently the tremendous big crop OF
this year. AS ordinarily 1t would be
impossible to cultivate such an enor.
nous acreage, We believe it would be
wise In them this year to materially
decrease the acreage. II 1t was de-
creased 10 per can't. it would mean a
reduction If more than a million bales
nexs year, even if the crop yielded as
much per acre as it did this year.
1t strikes US that what the farmer
wants is to make his cotton at the
lowest possible cost. The profit de-
rived ftom G owing cotton Is not so
much the price cf cotton as the cost
at which the crop has been grown.
Mul:s and horses are high, much high
er than few years ago; the price Of
farm labor is high and scarce. There
fore every acre cultivated means a
large expenditure. 1t costs more to
cultivate an acre Of land growing a
quarter OF bale OF cotton than one
growing bale. In the latter instance
the plant s?on gro@s up and shades
the land, consequently the grass docs
not grow so rapidly OF luxuriantly.
Tae cheapest item that Can be used
in the production Of cotton Is c)m,
mercial fertilizers used literally. With
liberal application OF fertilizers the
farmer can grow bale OF cotton
where he has heretofore grown half q
bale, and do it with the same cost Of
miles and labor, and the additional
quantity Of seed grown will more than
pay fer tie extra amount OF fertil;-
zers used. Therefore, encourage your
customers to reduce their acreage and
to increase the amount Ct commercial
fertilizers per acre, believing as we do
that this is the way and the only way
to raise cheap cotton.
The south must continue to produce
around 1000, 900 bales OF cotton or
they will ind in a year or two the BAL
ance Of the world competing with
them in growing this staple and our
foreign market largely supplied from
sources that now produce but limit
ed Quantity.
Crum is Con hrmed.
Th nomination Of W. D. Cum, q
negro, to be collect + for the pert OF
Charleston, S. c., vas confined by
the senate in executive session Friday
By a vote OF 80 to II. Crum has been
nominated by the president three
times and in addition to these nomi-
nations has received three recess 3D.