Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-10-03
UNION BUREAU.
~ Cents ier ce,ton 4 UnIen's Battle Yell.

~ Gents ter cetton b unIen's Battle Yell.
Over seven hundred thousand
white farmers of the South who
grow this cotton have braved the
storm and spoken aloud this reason
able and equitable price of ii cents
for their cotton, and all they have to
do to get it is to stand firm.
Nine cents or any other old dirty
price is the whining, submissive, SUBJ
dued, croaking song of the unorgan-
izcd, weak kneed, unmanly and cow
ardly cotton grower that is now seen
running about the streets with a
bunch of cotton in his hands, beg
ging some one to take off his hands
this most valuable and world. wide
commercial product of the soil.
Men, do heve little manhood
about you aud quit acting 80 silly.
Keep your cotton off of the streets.
Bulk your cotton in some way and
compel the buyers to come to your
agent for your products. just like you
80 TO the agent for your farm imple-
ments and 60 to the merchant for his
goods.
Eleven cents for cotton now is no
more than cents was 10 years back,
considering cost of production.
We have hundreds of cotton ware
houses now in every cotton State.
Store your cotton in them, pay your
obligations with cotton certificates
and bull the bears out of the ring.
Better still. wherever it is possible,
store your cotton in the seed at
home. This plan will keep your
cotton off the market, make better
sample, give you more time to SOW
fall grain, and the lint will gain
enough in weight to pay 20 per cent
interest. Our own experience by
actual test proved this to be the fact
last season. Eleven cents for oil in
the lint is Just II times better than
selling the cotton seed for one cent
per pound. Put your cotton away
in the seed and let the lint take up
all the oil possible.
If your reputation is as good as it
should be, you can borrow money on
seed cotton stored in isolated safe
places about as easy as you can get
advances on growing crop.
We have heard of some men say
ing that their cotton did not cost
them very much to make it, as they
and their own family did all the
work. Now, that old fool should be
took out to the thicket aud warmed
up little until his heart moved
away from his stomach to its proper
place.
Begin now to fight cotton bears
next fall by sowing down at least
half your cotton crop in fall oats.
If your cotton rows are 81 feet,
drill in only two rows of oats, one on
each side of cotton stalks. Use a
6-inch plow on your cotton planter
and drill about one bushel of pure,
clean ,winter-grown oats to the acre
in between the cotton rows and leave
the trench open. The seed will
come up and grow all right and not
freeze out if you have the hardy
winter. growing variety of seed oats.
You may knock off few bolls of
cotton by planting in oats now, but
these bols can be saved just the
same. Getting in the oat crop early
will often double the yield.
Save all the cow pea seed in sight.
Cow peas are fine feed for man and
beast. Cotton is king and the COW
pea is queen of the South.
Give us plenty oats and cow peas
to back up our cotton crops with in
the hands of one million good, prac-
tical Farmers Union men in the cot