The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-02-15
IS AUUk HILL PLkAFAR-
MEnS URGED TO RALLY.
WHOLE STATE ORGAN!ZED-WiL-
LIAMSBURG COUNTY SHOULD
Do HER SHARE.

From all over the State we are IN
receipt of communications showing
that the farmers are rapidly pledg-
ing themselves under the Rock Hill
Plan to reduce acreage at least
25 per cent. This movement is not
only sweeping the State of South
Carolina, but it is being embraced
BY the farmers of the entire Cotton
Belt. But the most important piece
o. news of all we have received up
to the present on this important
subject is a clipping from the Wall
Street Journal of New York, and
tae following is what that paper has
to say on the situation of the move
ments of the cotton farmers Of the
South:
South Atlantic States Active in
Promotion of Rock Hill Plan to
Reduce Area 25 Per Cent Below
1911-Farmers are Signing in
Leading Counties.
Within 60 days of the time when
field work begins in the cotton belt
on the new crop for 1912, growers
of cotton are still without any con-
certed plan whereby a reduction of
acreage may be accomplished. New
ertheless, in the various States,
through one agency or another,
State Departments of Agriculture
are working with the farmers and
their friends, and there is good
reason to believe that effective re-
ductions will be made. This will be
not by absolute curtailment of farm
acreage, but by relative decrease in
areas planted in cotton and various
other crops.
In the South-Atlantic States what
is known as the Rock Hill Plan for
reducing cotton acreage is being
Systematically put into effect, be-
ginning with February l. The
South Carolina Farmers Union
several days ago requested Com
missioner E J Watson. of that States
Agricultural Department, who is also
President of the Southern Cotton
Congress, to cooperate with j G
An lerson, author of the Rock Hill
Plan to canvass the Southern States.
Local canvassers are rapidly cover
ing the counties in South Carolina,
securing pledges from individual
farmers and big planters. Barnwell
county, S C, for instance, rep, rts AZ
signers who planted 5,09l acres in
1911, have given written pledges to
reduce the acreage to 3,772 acres
this year, reduction of 25 per cent
which the plan requires. This coun-
ty usually produced from 100000 to
81, 900 bales. Bankers and manu-
facturers are subscribing funds in
support of the movement and Cham
bars of Commerce are likewise back
ing it..
We will also insert a clipping
from Henry Clews & Cos circular
of February 8, so you may see what
they have to say on this subject:
Don't Let the Present Advances
Fool You.
Sales of fertilizers are substan-
TALLY behind last season, while a
recent Government report which
quoted the price of mules at $3.50
head less than last year is certainly
significant. Altogether the evidence
which is gradually coming TO hand
pretty clearly indicates the prob
ability of a material reduction in this
years crop area, although the acre
age prospects would be greatly i'm
proved if prices should be further
sharply advanced and maintained,
until close on to planting time.
This, however, is something that
only the future can disclose, and
in the meantime the market will
continue to be governed by the