The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-27
JUDGI: CALLED DOWN
IN REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL
AND SUGGESTIVE CARTOON.
''The Magnet Judge Omitted Cotton
in Giving the Official Bulletin of

'The Magnet Judge Omitted Cotton
in Giving the Official Bulletin of
the American Farmer.
The Augusta Chronicle says re-
Gently Judge, the pictorial publica-
ton, printed a magnificent cartoon,
called The Magnet" in which cata-
logued the official bulletin of the
American Farmers" as follows:
2,643, 100000 bushels Of Indian
corn grown in the year 1908-value
of this crop, s1,615, 100000. This
sum would pay all the interest-bear-
ing debt of the United States; would
dig the Panama Canal; would build
fifty battleships.
The greatest hay crop IN history
gathered last year, 6s,000,000 tons
mown down, II per cent above the
average of the preceding five years.
Value Of the crop, s621,000,000.
60,000,000 bushels Of wheat
harvested in 1908, worth s620,000,-
900. The most valuable wheat crop
hitherto produced. Value of the oat
crop last year, 1921, 100000. The
yield was 7s9,000,0O0 bushels.
The barley crop of 167,000,O00
bushels-and with a value Of $685.
900, ,OOO-has been exceeded only
once.
''The largest rice crop ever raised
-27,000.000 bushels, value about
s1S,0Oe,OOO.
The sugar-beet crop not only the
largest in history, but nearly one
half as large again as the average
Of the five preceding years.
The value of the sugar-cane crop
has only been equalled once. Sugar
beet and sugar-cane crops together
are worth about s94,000,000.
Value Of products from American
COWS close to $500, 0,O0o,ooe. Aggre-
gate value of animals slaughtered
md animal product Of the farm is
nearly s3,o00,oO0,000.
Agricultural products exported
in 1908 valued at SLOT, 100000.
''No wonder the ships sailing for
American ports are full"
Commenting on this publication
Mr. George Nees, Of Augusta, wrote
Judge as follows:
Augusta, Ca, Jan. II, 1909.
publishers Judge, New York
City, n. Y.-Gentlemen:
II note in a recent edition Of your
publication cartoon called the
Magnet in which you catalog tn.
products of the American farmer
In looking over the same am rath'
er surprised that you should have
omitted therefrom the most impor,
tant of all articles and that is the
great Southern staple, cotton.
'As you doubtless know, the ex'
ports of cotton and its by-products
from the United States far exceed
in value those of any other commod,
ity. The aggregate worth of same
for the past year being more than
five hundred millions OF dollars.
''I might also say that in the set
tlement of balance due by our ceun.
try abroad our exports Of cotton are
indispensable, for we can rely upon
the money from our exports Of cot
ton every year, while no other pro-
duct of the soil can be depended up
on with the same certainty"
The following tribute to cotton
from the pen of that gifted Southern
writer, the late lamented Henry W,
Grady, is interesting:
What royal plant it is! The
world waits in attendance on its
growth. The shower that falls
whispering on its leaves is heard
around the earth. The sun that
shines on it is tempered by the
prayers Of all the people. The
fros. that chills it, and the dew
that descends from the stars is
noted, and the trespass Of g lit
tie worm on its green leaf is more
to England than the advance Of
the Russian army on her Asian
outpost. 1t is gold from the in
slant it puts forth its tiny shoot.
It's fiber is current in every bank,
and when loosing it's fleece to the
sun it floats a sunny banner that
glorifes the field of the humble
farmer, that man is marshalled
under a fag that will compel the
allegiance of the world, and wiring
subsidy from every nation on
earth. 1t is the heritage that
God gave this people forever as
their own when he arched our
skies, established our mountains,
dDOUl WILL IAC SSS~A43 1SNS
ed the breezes, tempered the sun
shine and measured the rain.
Ours and our children's forever!
AS princely talent as ever came
from His hand to mortal steward
ship
"Inasmuch as your publication
has quite a large circulation in this
section, beg Of you, in future, kind
ly do not leave OF of your official
bulletin of the American farmer the
chief product of this great South
land-the section of our common
country that is developing in vaster
strides than any other portion Of it.
(Signed) Yours truly,
GEORGE NEES"
Judge, in reply, has written Mr..
Nees as follows:
New York, Jan. 18th, 1909.
"Mr. George Nees, Library
Building, Augusta, Ga.