Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-05-29
4 BANKERS PLAIN TALK
TO COTTON FARMERS.


very interesting, unique and
original communication from Mr..
Wood Rainwater, president of
the Rainwater Bank and Trust
company, of Morrilton, Ark. to
deposltors of that bank and to
farmers especially:
Corn planting time is here.
Be a good citizen, be a man, be a
self-sustaining, progressive farm
er; It's not hard to do. Raise
your own corn, potatoes and peas,
enough to do you and some to
sell. That's all it takes.
Corn fed to cattle nets YOU
$l.27 a bushel. Would you raise
corn for S1.27 bushel? You
can raise it for approximately %
sents a bushel. There is money
in all kinds of farming except
cotton. Five bales of cotton are
worth as much as eight bales.
Why will you farmers kill the
price of cotton by raising more
than can be used? Cut your cot
ton and increase corn. potatoes
and peas. Cattle and hogs will
never be cheap any more, never.
At your door in Little Rock is
the best cattle market in the
United States for fat cattle.
How many. 500 steers are you
going to fatten? How much of
corn, peas and potatoes are you
going to sell? You can't afford
to pay some rich man to raise
your living. When you buy corn.
peas, potatoes and meat out of
the State you are buying them
from farmers who own automo-
blles at your expense. You would
not pay your neighbor $1OO a
month to raise your corn. Why
will you pay it to the other fei-
low? We are the finest. best
State in the Union and you don't
know it. Some time just for
business, take stock of yourself
and see what you are doing rails
ing cotton.
Say YOU have farmed for so
years. Your boy has helped YOU
five years -35 years work. You
own two mules worth $3.50, plow
tools worth $25, a wagon worth
500, making a total of 1926. Di-
vide this by 35 years, making
So. 33 year, or two and three
fourth cents a day that you have
made and saved. That's extra
fine to make farming (raising
cotton). One COW will net you
more than your work and your
chlld's work at cotton. Don't
get mad when the government is
trying to help you. Help your
self to make a living by raising
your own grub. Don't get mad
when you figure and find out
that one COW is worth more to
the State of Arkansas and hu-
manity than you are while rails
ing cotton from money calcu-
lation or food standpoint. Don't
you think it's time to figure?
Take full day, or a full
month, or a full year to figure
what am | making per year?
What am | saving per year? Am
l looking for fun and no money
raising cotton? Twenty-six mil
lion farmers have to raise enough
cattle and corn and wheat to
feed 100000, 900 people. Are
you selling your part? If you
can't figure, I'll tell you what
your figures are: All cotton is a
poor man all your life regardless
of how hard you work or how
much you figure.
Raise cattle, hogs, corn, peas
and potatoes and | guarantee
you make money and better
citizens; besides you are setting
a good example for your children
and Arkansas. It's pitiful to
see drunkard or morphine
eater. 1t is more pitirul to see
a cotton farmer trying hard to
raise enough cotton to buy horse
feed for the next year. Ii
Judgment day don't come soon
L don't know what's to become
of the white cotton farmer.