The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-18
Our Cotton Letter.

ln' laltlilNi WHO nave nrll TO suck IT
out to the end for the minimum pri-
ccS.
letter from Il man'im Texas STA
tcS that hr Will Get but one bale Off
OF - acres this Year, the boil Wrcvil
Tot the other 80 bales.
Another prominent official Of the
Texas Farmers Union states that
there are many cotton growers in
TcNaS this season that will not make
more than one fourth to one third as
much cotton to the acre this year as
they did last year.
when the cotton farmers or~nniza-
ti"n> sci tn" minimum price mt Is
cents they made no mistake, they
knew tlI' situation notwithstanding
the opinion OF some newspapers to
the cont rary, who seem to think that
they have Il better idea about what
Che farmer should have for his cot
tom than both the Farmers Union and
the Cotton Association combined.
That wild. mad. rush Of that weak
m"r,a@rd cotton tn market will soon
be over. stand 10 your positions boys
and vnt will win out rs usual.
Tla: cotton your nciwhbor sold out
to the Srrrulal"r before il was made,
and ihr mnrtwa"rd weak cotton l.: the
clog that is now holding down the
lid on the cotton market. to dctriment
Of thr prosperity and progress Of the
whole south.
We have the names Of two brother
farmers in South Carolina that sold
one hundred bales of their cotton be-
fore II was made at ten cents per
pound. and have since gone the man
they sold to and paid him one thons-
and dollars to get loose from that
foolish contract
We will give von the names and ad-
dresses of these men if You will give
us the names and addresses Of two
more nf the same sort.
Thc two men alluded to are now
good Union men. hut it cost them
ON" thousand dollars by not joining
one year sooner and standing pat FOR
the minimum prices.
Most everything used bv cotton
growers has gone higher in price re-
Gently while cotton has gone lower
without Il reason for it except That
New York Cation Exchanges has an
interest in lowering prices ON this
weak cnttnn
Why plant cotton anyway when
y"u can usually buy weak cotton
cheaper than ynu can make it? This
plan w"nld save Il lot Of worry and
work too.
The prices ON checks and some
other goods are now fifty per cent
higher than one year AGO. These
splnnerS and wcavcrS have made
these advances expecting to pay Is
cents "r more for this years cotton
nnd now these weak cotton growers
that arc showing the white feather
have broken faith and are on the re-
treat. navc not the faith in thcmScl-
YES and ncighhors that these cotton
mill men have in the power Of the two
great organizations, The y Farmers
Union and the Cotton Association.
Inland Long Staple Versus "sea
Island Cotton
In their deliberations on naming
minimum prices en- long staple cot
ton the committee appointed by the
Farmers Union at Little Rock did not
think it wise to undertake. the task of
making a discrimination among thc
various kinds of long staple but
Thought il best to recognize the fact
that AS the original "Sra Island'
cotton has moi been grown to pcrfcc-
ll"n and reproduced on any other
land excepting the sea islands. that
al! other long staple cotton grown on
main land should be distinguished
from the Sea Island as "Iuand long
staplcs' and classed by numbers as
Is already being done 10 some extent.
AT the date Of pricing cotton hv the
Union "numhcr one east Florida'
Long Staple was scllin" at ~ cents
per pound and all other grades of in
land Ion" staple was set at the same
rates according 10 grade.
1t is well TO state mere that iii or
der to Wpi tDucv nricnS ono n,n.I nrn