The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-17
HOG AND HoM1NY THE REMEDY.

In a speech at the Macon Fair a
few days ago Gov Hoke Smith. Oh
Georgia, said that the startling fact
had been given out by the Department
of Agriculture that the State or
Georgia paid out last year over seventy
million dollars for corn, wheat, oats
and hay, meats and stock. Com
menting upon this and upon the duty
of the South at this tine, Governor
Smith made a long and able speech,
from which the folio wing extracts are
taken:
There is no good reason why a sin
gle dollar of this money should nave
left the State. On the contrary. we
should produce meat and hay for out
Of the State
The same thing is true Of other
portions Of the South. Nearly every
State in the South fails to produce its
own food stuffs, although each state
in the South could readily produc
it's food stuffs and an ida Tor
outside markets.
IF Georgia had produced this year
all her own food stuffs and had raised
all of her own stock, and the same
policy had been followed by other cot
ton growing States, while the volume
of cotton raised would have been
somewhat less the market price OF
that raised would> have been far
greater than the present market price
Of the entire crop.
Cotton seed is selling now at SIS a
ton. It is worth nue. more than this
for cattle n stock feed, aad SO used
the fertilizers produced by the cattle
and stock if properly cared for would
be worth more than the seed. The
farmer is foolish to sell his seed at
the present price. l have reason 70
believe there is a carefully organized
combination to force down the price
of cotton seed. Better keep it and use
it for stock and cattle feed and maxi
fertilizers also, through it's use, than
to sell it for such a price.
1.-The problem of marketing the crop
is one which deserves not alone the
attention Of the farmer, but the CO.
operative support Of nine-tenths of
South. If the cotton seed owners
would simply decline to sell their seed
for less thar $25 a ton. and stand firm
for 80 days. they would receive that
price.
I'VE can never hope to receive the
full value Of INT cotton until the farm
ers, raising their o stuffs, are pre-
pared when the cotton is picked to
market it only by degrees through the
year following, and when they cease
to force down the selling price by
crowding great volumes Of cotton be-
yond the need Of the manufacturers
upon the market.
These suggestions z not new, but
they must be repeated and repeated
until they fasten themselves upon
those engaged in farming n be
come their practice, not merely their
theory"
It will be observed from the above
that Governor Smith thinks There is
q Carefully organized combination
to force down the price of cotton
seed" He advises the farmers to use
it for stock and cattle feed and make
fertilizers rather han to sell it at the
present price. He thinks the farm
ers should decline to sell their seed
for less than $25 per ton and THAT if
they stand firm for 80 days they car
receive that price. The views of
Governor Smith are important because
he is one of the most practical pub
lie men in America, deeply interested
in the welfare of the farmer and the
prosperity of the South and a man
who gives deep study to practical
questions.
The big cotton convention to be held
in Raleigh next Wednesday would do
we'll to consider carefully h sug-
gestions of Governor Smith, because
there is much wisdom in them.
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