The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
DECLARES THEY ARE THE PEG
PIE WHO CAN PREVENT RAIS-
ING TOO MUCH COTTON.
GERMANY MUST Be BEATEN

Ul,o E~-GoyernOr Discusses the Situa-
tion in a Most Interesting Way and
Makes Timely Suggestion. How 1t
l. Worked on His Farm.
Governor Jos. NJ. Brown has given
to the newspapers a lengthy letter
dealing with the cotton situation in
the South. the European war situa-
tiop and suggesting a remedy for the
problem of the South's getting away
from the all cotton plan under
which it now operates.
Governor Brown thinks the gov
eminent could easily come to the aid
of the South and take some OF its
cotton through purchase because in
the civil war it confscated the cotton
of this section and turned the money
into the public treasury.
Works Both Ways.
IF cotton could be sold in the six
ties to keep the government going
he thinks the government could take
its money now and use it to keep the
South from suffering.
Mr.. Brown declares that under the
present tenant system in vogue in the
South it is impossible to get away
from the cotton growing idea until
there is found some way by which
the farmer in the spring of the year
can get advances on his crops other
than cotton just as he now can do on
the probability of raising a crop of
the staD1e. He tells what has been
done on his Cherokee farm. In this
connection he says:
How 1t Worked on His Farm.
81 believe I have practically solved
this problem on my own farm. AM
let me here say have never operated
nv farm directly. 1t is impossible
for me to do so, living twenty miles
away. | have always rented it to
one tenant who hires labor or sub
rents. But I have kept in close touch
with him and aided him in improving
the land. waterways, buildings etc,
and in buying improved stock and
the best seed.
81 proposed to him nearly two
months ago that we drop cotton en-
tirely, and raise corn, wheat, oats,
hay. cattle and hogs. He made the
same answer that he has made to
this same proposition for several
years, viz: That he was Obliged to
get an advance of money or supplies
to carry him until fall, and that not
a bank or storekeeper in Cherokee
county would accept grain, hay or
live stock as security for a note, that
cotton was all they would take.
To Make Advance.
81 then proposed to advance him
the necessary money in installments
next March and May, and that he
give me notes secured by grain, hay
and hogs. To this he instantly
agreed, explaining with face which
fairly glowed with joy, There will be
no cotton raised on this river bot
tom farm next year,
Now, note the difference. During
the past he has had to buy fertilizer
and work. work, work his cotton
from the time he planted it till he
got it from the gin This fall he will
plant about seventy-fve or more
acres in oats and wheat. He and his
helpers will do no more work on
them till harvest time next June. At
ter harvest they pillow in peas. Then
they have no more work on that
ground till the pea vines are moved
for hay. or turned under to fertilize
the soil, save that in the latter case
some of the peas are picked for seed,
etc. All the intervening time he has
for other work, whereas, if cotton
were planted, he would be working
the plant or picking the lint nearly
every day from April to November.
Time for Other Crops.
This gives him much more time
for attention to corn, potatoes, his
garden. etc. and for caring for his
stock. And my land will year by