The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-26

1llO1e "a 61HS CAtN AN AN ~NS
the mills.
Second, IS in many instances,
the farmer contracted to sell his
cotton at from 10 to II cents per
pounds, thinking that he WAS get
ting a good price for it, m since
he solo the price has gone up SO
much until he has figured hat it
would pay him to pack his con-
tract cotton IN small bales and
he is doing it, for the mills and
the exporter who bought It are
so glad that he Is standing up
to the contract without litigation
that he Is taking any weight
bales h the farmer gives him.
SO you can easily see that it pays
him to pack a small bale Of cot
ton in more ways than one.
"Now for the mills shutting down
or cutting time this is all nonsense,
for never in their history could they
less afford to do this. For 1t does not
only d~isOrganze their labor for the
ratives will go to the cotton farms
and they cannot sc: them back for
a year, and they Will have to break
in new labor or do without, for the
mill labOrerS are most all rying to
get farms to move on and at best next
year labor is going to be scarce and
inferior. Then if this labor goes on
the farm they arc green and are unfit
for the work and they will reduce
the yield and will have another short
crop next year, and the mills will be
short Of cotton again.
For three years we have been do
in" ali we could to raise as much cot
ton rs the South could produce and
we nave had two good years out of
the three and we IN ourselves about
1000, 600 bales of cotton shOrt OF the
worlds consumption, 50 what are we
to do, can we afford to put unfit labor
on the farms and can the mills afford
to put green behind their
looms? Would it not a them much
better to keep the men at work than
to let them go?
w are now planting all Of the
land that we can cultivate in cotton,
and are buying all of the fertilizers
that our credit will stand, and are
planting improved seed to increase
we find ourselves short in number Of
bales Notwithstanding we are packing
our bales short-Weight to make them
numbe more.
IF ~cottOnseed keeps advancing we
will have to get an improved seed
that Will not make any lint | notice
that compound lard advanced hree-
quarters of q cent a pound one day
last week, and this is most all made
O. c~ottonseed oil. You can axe this
for what it is worth, but in my opin-
ion it is going to cut some figure later
on in the season."
w. 3. Thompson & Co, of New Or
leans, in a bToadside on false prophets
say:
"Already our spinner friends have
shown symptoms Of recovery from the
effect Of copious injections of the
haume tr%anquille AID administered by the
skilfQ1 hand Of some great auturnnal
optimist. Conventions and meetings
have been held and are being held
whereat historical threats OF curtail-
nlent have been made and unnecesSa-
rily advertised. All the world should
know that curtaiIment viii be en-
forced by shortage OF supply, whether
the price Of raw cotton shall be lower
or higher, or whether the spinner
want to curtail or no. n survivors
on q life raft are adopting resolutions
as, nOminally the HON Of plenty,
buyers are migrating eastward. The
planters in the bends of the Mississippi
river, who Usually ship their cotton to
New Orleans for sale, are now selling
it from the fields at abnormal Dremi-
unS, to buyers for unfamiliar ac-
counts. The outpOStS Of the cotton
belt are beseiged by anxious buyers;
to the interior, to the primary bases
OF supply have they gone and are buy- |
ing all the cotton Offered ana at the |
price asked therefor. And Yet the
month Of October is only a little over
gone. If the signs of the
time count for anything. buyers will
sweep the country from the interior to
S~eabOard, increasing in number and
aViditN and concentrating rs the pro-
coed, until such stocks as have been
accumulated at the ports will repre-
the remnan Of the crop and will
the last and highest prices |
OF the year.
"ProNidential conditions cOnjoined
with the activity of mistaken raider
brought bOu q direct reversal
of the relative position of the producer
ami the consumer Of raw cotton. Here
tofore 1t has been the enforced Gus
of the farmer to sell the bulk of
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