Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-05-05

tee s.ris name viii be known and re-
ported
The live stock growers. the farmers
of the north, from time to time have
proposed TO do some such thing an
this, but they have never gone about
it with any such q grim system. lie
a league of corn growers could be-
formed 10 boost the price OF that cereal
TO seventy-fiye cents the acreage might
be expected 10 expand in exact p
ton to the geenral belief In the sue
cess OF the movement. Al great many
OF the best informed people In tbs
south think that this tendency will
wreck the cotton con~lbine-every man
advising his neighbors 10 cut down out
put. while Tin many casesA himself Sc
cretly planting more I'M order to reap
profit at the expense OF his fellows. IT.
may urn out SO; but no one need bs
surprised IL the association, along large
lines, wins. =
That il is well worth watching cannot
be doubted. II looks forward to better
farming methods. Its purposes TO edu-
cate the agriculturaflsts of the south.
Ii Will, no doubt, do much TO bring
southern agricultural colleges and ex-
pertinent stations up to the standard OF
the hest in the north. It VIII spread
knowledge of economies in cotton pro-
ELECTROMAGNETIC picking, for instance
$500 NiAn &c. fltfN1 tiN IAAat%~A ~
position TO accept lower prices at y
| profit.
Here Is the first serious attempt on a
large scale involving the organization
OF great numbers of men producing
from the soil. TO popularize trust meth
DDS. IL L wins. where win II stop2
The National Live stock association
already has a half formed plan for a
trust of its w TO cop with the beef
trust. Any conspicuous success on the
part OF the cotton men may be expect
ed to give the cattle men courage.
Wheat growers would seem almost as
capable OF organization as cattle grow
ers. And, skipping intermediate steps.
does not this new trust carry the mind
forward TO the time when every acre
of land In the country will be listed a.
union lane or nonunion land. and the
only class left u OF the universal
tendency to justification will be that
friendless being usually thrown into
the politico-economic waste basket un-
der the name OF '4the consumer; There
seems to be little hope for him. as he
possesses nothing but needs and de-
sires, and these cannot be pooled.
Some of the old fashioned economists
VIII condemn this cotton association
as "reactionary,' ''nediaeval. and
perhaps "anti-social." I'M that 1t pro-
poses to restrict production. II will
leave fields untitled just TO the extent
that 1t is successful. 1t has the de-
clared purpose of growing poorer crops.
Already orders for agricultural ma
chinery are said TO be falling or In
southern cities. The beef trust. whose
packing houses furnish IA large part ot
the commercial fertilizers OF the cnun-
try, could. IL 1t wished, tell OF shrunken
orders for this ~byproduct. Something
has served to raise the price OF COT
ton, too. The man who had $542 in
the value OF his cotton at the time
when the combine began work was
able TO sell ii, within thirty days or
the conventions adjournment, for 1853.
This rise OF SPIT IN a month must
breathe the breath of life into those
portions Of the machine which need IL.
In this effort to make one blade OF
cotton grow where two grew before,
there are set in motion many economic
reactions. some OF which must produce
unpleasant Impressions.
well" says the planter to the or
ganizers OF the metal. meat. oil. to-
bacco and other trades, what OF it,
Who began it, When you are in the
Rome OF trustdom you must do as the
trusts do. As for the sur / ara.
distinctly, not my brothers keeper"