Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-12-10
COTTON LOSES
OUT IN SOUTH
CORN EXCEEDS ANY CROP NOW
RAISED IN LOUISIANA.
AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION



casioncd no comment al an II was
truc-all mt one thlng-ror corn Is
10 royalty, Gouon Is dcthronod indeed
IN Louisiana, but the plehian crop
which takes It's place is the small
farmers crop not tho power of the
big nndholder
II was GOV Hammond of South Car
olno who originated the proud boast
of the South tina, Cotton is King"
For forty years the statement has been
twr In the entire gulr scaboard. II
was q tickle king, ana the country
got very little richer for serving n.
Tho bull wcevil, which swept from
Mexico across Texas into Louisiana
aud headed the insurgont movement
has made me country districts of
Louisiana richer than the cotton made
them. And he beginning has only
dono this, one hundred and twenty
million bushels is the increase in the
corn crop of the cotton states this
year, not counting 10000. 600 hush
cls IN Oklahoma at all ana there are
individual acres of Louisiana land on
record which have produced as high
as 1873 bushels Of shcllcd dent corn.
When he boll wccvll invaded the
state cotton was the most valuable
crop grown, sugar standing second in
tDtHl value, ana corn ana rice con-
testing for third place, says Prof. W.
H. DCdson. Last year corn rose to
first place, having been second In m-
porance the year before This year
ttHil ,,,
sugar crop by approximately 10000
OON 1t viii exceed In value the COM
hincd values Of the rice crop aud the
Gotten crop,
4 year and haf ago some Of the
men most interested in corn saw that
there were great possibilities In Louis
l'nn for corn production, ana realized
the necessity Of the organization Of
an association for the study Of the
problems that were to confront the
producers of this great cereal. As q
result Of the discussion of this sub
icc. an association was formed dur
Ing the state fair Of 1909, adopting the
name Of the Louisiana Corn Growers
Association. w, f., Glassell Of Shrevo-
port was elected president. W L. Dod-
son, director of the experiment sta
tions, was elected secretary
The organization secured during the
year q reduction of freight rates on
car load shipments Of corn. demonstra
ted the superior value of Louisiana
grown corn on the New Orleans mar
ltot, have stimulated an active inter-
est in the selection and breeding of
good seed corn ana in the ostbish-
mcnt Of standards by which corn eX-
hibits are TO he Judged.
There Is no doubt that the boil
wccvil has caused the revolution. and
that II is a revolution that Is here.
hll over Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala
bama, to say noChing of Texas. which
had head start on these other states
they are hustling to out-wit the little
bug by anticipating his coming and
gctdng the cotton out of the way
In this mornings paper some ono
advcrtscs for peanuts. declares he Is
willing To- take all the peanuts the
states win raise and that the hy-pro-
duets Of peanuts are more valuable
than those of cotton. And it is a
fact that Southern Mississippi this
year raised many times more goobcrs
than over before in her history, and
with profit per acre greater than
the average profit on cotton.
u must be remembered that cotton
iH a costly crop to raise. Not counting
In the drained bottom lands. II half
bale to the acre is a big yield for most
farmers, and when that Is worked
on shares and lot of negroes finan-
cied to grow II, the result Is not very
much per acre profit. II is only the big
acreage that produces wealth. The
cut-ovcr lands of the South and the
abandoned cotton land is being taken
up at SO to SEQ an acre with ama2-
ing rapidity ny Northerncrs. who are
farming IL themselves and putting
those new crops in Il. and II is re-
turning double to treble per acre what
cotton Yielded
The rice acreage is extending rap
idly, though not relatively ms fast as in
Arkansas, where the yield per acre is
double that IN Louisiana The acre
age planted this year 10Y states was
as follows Louisiana, $1,000: Texas,
2GiS0O Arkansas. $500; south Car
oina. 1900 and perhaps 10000
acres scattered among other states
But cane, rice, and peanuts, all
taken together. do not equal the in
forest that is given today to the new
head Of the republic, Corn IL talked
Of everywhere Corn special trains so
long tried In tho North have for the
first time dun over the Louisiana rail-
roads chroniclcd In full-pagc stories
by the newspapers, and stopping at
every town while the professors from
the state University lectured on agri-
cultural subjects. In every parish In
Louisiana and practically every county
IN Mississippi boys corn clubs have
struggled through the season for va
rlcty Of prizes ana their results are
truly amazing In Missppi boys work
ing for only 50 or SO prize money have
produced a. high ms 1876 bushels to the
ucrc. and 100 bushels is common
crop for them In fields Ike those in
which their fathers False 20 to %
hushels.
Corn is worth more down here than
In the North. They have always
bought at Cairo and 81, Louis. The To-
cal rail rate at river points Is II cents
q hundred. at inland points % cents,
that Is TO the river points lO.S cents
q hushel, and corn Is always that much
and often more above the 81 Louis