Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-03-13

more ootton to the square inch off of
their Wall street cotton plantations
than Southern cotton growers have
sold from an average square rod of
their cotton farms.
$
When you have determined to 60
into the long staple cotton growing
business, do it right or you will surely
get left. Enough men in each vi.
cinity should grow long cotton .suffi-
oient to justify putting in roller
gin or needle gin, then you can
make all things work right through
your organizations in ginning and
selling, too.
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Good authorities state that South
Carolina used last year over FIVE mil
lion dollars worth of fertilizers and
that at least two million dollars of
that amount was lost--washed out
by applying the more soluble nitrate
goods before their crops had roots in
the soil to take it up. This washing
out of this costly ammoniated goods
by heavy rains before plant roots are
in the soil to take up this costly
plant food is deserving of more seri-
GUS thought than some people give
it. Try side application and tell us
about it..
Have you ever gone over, field
where there were many terrace banks,
and made thorough calculation
about how much of the best land was
lost thereby, growing nothing but
weeds? If not, do it, then you may
be in the proper state of mind to
make change by sowing down your
lands every other year. Plow deeper
and plow down every terrace bank
on your farm just as soon as you can
get enough root or other vegetable
matter in the soil to hold it together.
We have put the thing to the test
and the terrace banks are going down
as fast as we can get to them. Our
terrace banks and niggers are grow
ing beautifully less and less profta-
bic every year.
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What power for good of the
whole of the South these supply
merchants could WELD if they would
only compel their improvident, all
cotton farmers to grow their own
food crops. This would enforce di-
versified farming and at the same
time reduce the acreage in cotton,
which would, in turn, improve the
land, increase the yield per acre and
reduce the risk and loss to the sup.
ply merchant to minimum, by
causing better prices for their GUS
toners products. Our better class
of more business-like farmers could
afford to stand their cotton off the
market and watch this dog eat dog
riot that comes off at the winding up
of every crop if it was not for the
fact that cotton bears take advant-
age of this pull Dick, pull Devil,
melee between the mortgaged crops
and the money lender, and swoop
down upon the whole cotton crop
with their own set prices, which
gives spinners enough cotton to 90
upon, while cotton bears either force
the better class of farmers to either
sell at a loss or store their cotton and
incur the expense of storage and in
cur the expense of storage and in
surance.
Now these state ments of facts in
regard to the cotton growing busi-
ness in the South should make it
plain to every thinking, business cot
ton grower and all supply merchants
and bankers organizations, Farmers
Union and Cotton Association men
In the whole South that we must
have a better understanding with
each other and come together before
we can man the whole situation of
both growing and marketing our
money crop--cottou. Growing the
crop well and selling it badly will
hurt every one in the South, except