The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-30
PLANT LESS AND MAKE MORE
Southern Farmer Will Never Get Out of Financial Troubles Until Ware
 house System Is Used.

Old Rapides, Louisiana, is coming to the front as far as hog and h0miny is concerned. Corn is fine, peas, cane and potatoes are on an average, but cotton is knocked out by the boil weevil. I expect to quit the cotton business as long as bool weeyils are so interested in it, l spent 40 years raising it for the baleWeevii, and darned if I spend old age making it for the lesser evil, called the boil weevil, writes E. P. Bruce of Louis jana in Co-Operator 1 have already done what every cotton planter should do, sowed oats on my cotton land for winter pasture and to be cut next June for feed crop for next year. I also expect to SOW ten acres in rye for the same purpose. So, you see, I'll try and raise something to eat and to feed my stock on, which will be worth more than cotton as long as provisions are so high.
 The farmer should be the last one to grumbIe at high prices of farm products, as he should be in the mar ket to sell instead of to buy. I ex- pect to break all of my land good and deep this fall that I intend to cultivate next year, so I'll have noth- ing to do in next crop only to plant and cultivate and thereby try the old saying, that an ounce of prepara- tion is worth a pound of cultivation. l expect to plant less and make more, so far as making the farm selt-sus- it,f, self to but little trouble to make more to sell until I'm in position to get the value of what 1 have already made. Isn't 1t strange that the farm CT will work from Monday morning until Saturday night trying to make a dollar, without eyer stopping to think about some plan to save it?
 We should make arrangements to save what We make before making it if we don't we'll wake up next morn- ing and realize the fact that the oth- Gr fellow has half of it. We'll never get out of our present financial trou- bles until we make an intelligent use of our warehouse sys.em. This can only be done by storing all of our non-perishable products and using re- ceipts for tWo-tbirds of their value, and let these circulatae as a medium of exchange to transact our busi- ness until the consumer needs the products, then we can redeem said checks. The man who will work to make food and raiment for the civil ized world and then look to some oth- CT fellow to define 1t for him needs boring for the simples, and with a three-inch auger, at that, our officials not excepted.
 If the leaders of the Farmers union would stop wind -jamming long enough to realize the fact that we belong to a business organization, they might soon find trail that would lead the people out of the wilderness. As long as we depend upon the fellow that holds the purse string to move our products and labor, we'll find that Thomas Jefferson's words were true: Hell be master of the situation. D Our warehouse should bear the name of 'The Farmers Bank and Conner cial Assocation," and when properly used would make even the Rothschild Jew sit up and take notice
 The union, to some extent, puts me in mind of the Irishman's owl, "All fuss and feathers" We should es- tablish a produce warehouse in every town and city that can handle car load of our produce, so that we can sell direct to the consumer.