Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

" ,etrtNGTON, d. Give
!. i. !: !. !. !. !. !. !: !:
Z raised enough cotton last
COR TO make n suit OF
IA clothes for every man, wo-
Nm nan and child upon earth,
wv The crop is estimated at H.
\ 100000 bales or In other
words at 6.OOo,OOO,0 900 pounds
=, will bring to the south "oO'VVO'ovV ~,
y W" ,ban $500 600 worth OF 1t VIII
A0, .,ross the water, and It's value Will
,S,n IN hard gold dollars to Uncle
w., pockets. The balance VIII be
'au, IN our own factories, north and
u''a We have now more than 1900
'Ya aon mills, which annually eat up
~ ..,, 400 OOO 900 pounds of raw cotton
S r,.v employ hundreds Of thousands Of
, '" and make a product which sells
. ...oro ,ban $500. 900, 900 per annum.
w Tt w giyes some idea or what cotton
ns N the United states, " Is ono
m g",r Ting crops, and the great money
U W., tbe south. II Il can be Increased
uWTbole country will be richer. II II
, u IN we are that much the poorer.
INV, n.,,hin tho past few years the agricul-
,"rsl department has had lts scientists
.,gdylng cotton, Il has established eN-
rsrmental farms In different parts OF
,Ss south. II has the best OF the farm-
ar. making experiments OF their own IN
sone sections and as result 1t mas
,Ss.e discoveries whereby It Is said
,S,t The product can be Increased fully
"a nor cent without any additional ex-
r.6se except the cost Of picking,
UNCLE SAM, MONEY MAKER,
I,pclo Sam is now playing patriarch.
ia ls taking more care Of his children
nan ever before. Through the great
government departments he Is teaching
men how to save and invest their
money A great work OF this Kind Is
Ming done by the agricultural depart
wapt and that especially in the line OF
roiton raising, had a talk today with
mr. r H. galloway, who has spent
years In the southern states studying
lotion and the possibility OF increasing
mai crop by better methods OF cultlva-
tlon Or. Galloway Is the chief Of the
bureau Of plant industry, and all his
work Is done for the government. Said
DO,
THE United states Will always be the
chief cotton country Of the world. Our
climate and soil are just fitted for cot
ION, and we have recently invented la
bor.saying machinery which will en-
able us 70 hold this industry against
any nation on earth. As 1t is, the crop
Il steadily growing Until the civil |
war we had never raised more than |
four and half million bales In 1898 !
we produced more than twice that
amount. and our reports from the south |
now show that we shall have more than |
100000 bales this year All the cot |
ion raised BY the world does not figure |
10 more than 100000 bales, so that |
threa.fourths Of all the cotton used by |
man Is now raised here"
INCREASING OUR COTTON.
what is the department doing along
such nes?' | asked
TITS giving the planters Of the south
object lessons II is showing them how
10 fertlllze and cultivate, 1t is making
experiments In seed selecting, and It is
breeding better seed every year. We
have experiment. stations In all the cot
ION states and we have already made
On taomOus difference In the amount
o' cotton grown, The chief trouble
with southern farmers Is that they are
one.cfop farmers They work the soil
With one crop until It Is worn out. ana
tt present the average yield of cotton
throughout the cotton belt is only i9n
pounds to the acre. At the same time.
% The same region, some farmers are
getting az much as 500 TO 500 pounds per
IRE, which at value Of cents n