The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-18
me Price of Cotten.

The Price of Cotton
 farmer is more Interested at this sea
 son than any other is the price of the
 cotton that he is now harvesting In
 fiucssated from d figure that 1''dh aid nat not
 cover the cost of production to A
 figure so high as to restrict consump-
 Sen Smon. encourage foreign countries to
 ton of crops i te 'Ps5 South dvess,d'cf sd f
 rsar vsnea ways 70 work against the per-
 ton grower. On the one or two occa-
 s,ons when prices have thus scared
 sN seove whoiesome limit. the chief CT than to the body of cotton grow
 The history of cotton production
 shows clearly that the marketing of tnis crop has been most unpusiness-
 like, the bulk of the crop having been Srdi.nharily rushed on the market with cessarfiy depressing the price, Last year as the result of large yield and Threatened low price. this question of slower. more rational marketing was widely agitated and one of the most Important results of the agitation of this enssticn by the southern Cotton gradual marketing of the crop of isO4, thus maintaining living price m spite of unpredecented production.
 We must all recognize that in bus mess matters the law of supply and demand does and will aiawys prevail so that all efforts to artificially ad- conservative and practicable basis. At the present moment, nearly every fac tor except one is working in accord h wlth tne farmers desire to raise the cotton will reach eleven cents, the price for which the recent Asheville meeting of the officers of the South cotton be held. The writer Is no pro- phet and no statistician and not given 10 believing that facts will mold them believes the outlook is most encourag- ing. "Wilf cotton reach eleven centsT' is the question that many men not already united with the Southern selves as they weigh the matter whefhef they will make or lose by making common cause with this asso- grower. Briefly the principai grounds for expecting an advance from the present price are as follows: First, the the snort ,,s, cotton crop of 1908; second priea. and, third, the increased demand for cotton. No long review of figures is nesdsd to convince impartial men Both public and private reports and past weather conditions make this
 I regard the present price as being artifictalIy depressed partly through the publicly expressed resolutions of the principal association of European the minimum amount during the fall months. This is plainly an effort to deprees price Another factor keeping fiee Is tHe earliness of the present crop throughout most of the cotton territory. 1t is I think fact that an y early srsp is aimost invariably i over oyer. thereby depressed. Glancing briefly at the possibility of increased demand. the outfodkS is most favorable. The Is conseFvativeIy estimated at not less than half a million bales. On the con- cluston of peace between two great nations where millions of men have abnormal increase in the demand of these countries and in the Chinese ter fstory where trade trade. was m int interrupted ,saPp & 6y are good chances for the price of cot ton to reach the figure recommended iy this Pries eev Wiii s1 easily Be % reac6ed and marketing their cotton as they have do. do.s 1t is to 1 be % hoped G thss many of the counties will initiate the example of Montgomery County and Lee Coun- The Lee County Cotton Growers Con 1t endorsed the Asheviiie reeommen- each school house at 2 o'clock Mon day, September 25th. The idea is to. perfect the organization at a time tive for uniting their forces. Another other meeting of the Lee County As tober 4th, at 111 o'clock at Opelika. Crops to Preeede Alfalfa on Sandy
 From Chiffon County comes the in- quiry whether 1t would be best to plant alfalfa in a field that has part iy grown up in pines or whether 1t be devoted for one year to bur clover.
 I think 1t very uncertain whether alfalfa would succeed on the land de- Bcribed. It would probably be better to devote it to some otfser crop this win Ger, preferable burr clover, and to SOW broadcast in cowpeas next summer as preparation for alfalfa. Then use at least one half ton of lime per acre before sowing alfalfa seed next Sep tember or the following March.
 ! J. F. D. ! Alfalfa on FqOr1da Soils.
 A N0Fthern correspondent asks as to the probability of successfully grow Ing alfalfa in Florida
 Your letter relative to alfalfa is F10Rjda is at hand am sending you Q copy of our bulletin on alfalfa While my knowledge of soils in Flor Ida is very limited and not the re- suit of inspection, am under the im-