The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-14
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 hominy is
concerned. Corn is fine, peas, cane
and potatoes are on an average, but
cotton is knocked out by the boil
Weevil. expect to quit the cotton
business as long as booI weevils are
SO interested in 1t. spent 40 years
raising 1T for the bale-weevil, and
darned If | spend old age making 1t
for the lesser evil, called the boil
weeVil, writes r. P. Bruce Of Louis
lana LII Co-Operator. 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.
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 ais long
as provisions are SO high.
The farmer should be the last one
to grumble at high prices Of farm
products, as he should be in the mar
pect to break all of my land good
and deep this fall that intend to
cultivate next year, SO I'll have moth
ing to do in next crop only to plant
and cultivate and thereby try the
old saying, that an ounce of prepare
stion is worth pound Of cultivation.
expect to plant less and make more,
30 far as making the farm self-sus-
tanning is concerned, but will put my
self to but little trouble to make more
to sell until I'm In position to get
the value of what I have already
made Isn't 1t strange that the farm
or will work from Monday morning
until Saturday night trying to make
dollar, without ever stopping to
think about some plan to save it?
We should make arrangements to
save what we make before making it;
IL we don't wen wake up next morn
ing and realize the fact that the 9TH
er fellow has half of it. Well never
get out of our present financial trou-
bles until we make an Intelligent use
of our warehouse system. This can
only be done by storing all Of our
non-perishabIe products and using re-
ceipts for two-thirds Of their value,
and let these circulatae as medium
Of exchange to transact our bust
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
lied world and then look to some 9TH
er fellow to define it for him needs
boring for the simples, and with q
three-inch auger, at that, our officials
not excepted.
If the leaders OF the Farmers union
would stop wind amming long enough
to realize the fact that we belong to
q business organization, they might
soon find trail that would lead the
people out of the wilderness. AS long
al 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:
"HeII be master of the situation"
Cur warehouse should bear the name
ne ssThe Farmers Bank and CONNER
cial Association and when properly
used would make even the Rothschild
lew 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-
fablish d produce warehouse in every
town and city that can handle car
load of our produce, SO that we can
Il sell direct to the consumer