The farmer and mechanic., 1914-09-01
SOUTHS COTTON FARMERS MUST
KNOW PRICE OF LINT COTTON
Must Do Their Farming With Cost System, Else They
Will Never Succeed-This Is Plan of Manufacturers
and 1t Is the Only Safe Plan

his hay and corn, should stop nelping |
show cotton manufacturers, cotton |
spectators and cotton cIoth-vea1ing |
millions that cotton costs less than it |
does.
Cotton farmers should never grow
or harvest q bale of cotton. Without
first counting the expected cost.
Should never sell a bale for less
than cost, for it is cheaper to buy
your surplus cotton below cost than
1t Is to grow it the next year Every
bale you sell at a loss in cost or
profit is in the way of one bale the
next year. If one bale is sold this
season more than is needed, and sells
az below cost and the profit paying
price, you will sell one bale the next
year at a greater loss
Where South Is Independent.
Cotton farmers remember, the
South is independent on the corn and
hay business, and should be sellers of
corn and hay in place Of buyers
Also, remember, the SOuth's cotton
farmers are great sellers and buyers
or hay and corn, though they buy hay
and corn, and grow hay and corn
and sell it through cotton; and cotton
at less than 1921 % cents to IA cents
never overpays the cost and profit
! Ter the hay and corn you sell through
cotton.
Cotton farmers, count your cost as
MANUFACTURERS count their cost. Take
trip East or to the Northwest and
| see the wealth manufacturers have
made A manufacturer builds nothing
| without charging the market price for
i material used to the cost to every sep
arate piece Of goods manufactured
A manufacturer who pays $500
for 1000 feet of lumber charges SIS
Tor <hls lumber to the cost of the
goods made from this lumber Man
uIactures who own stand timber and
contracts with mill men to cut and
saw this timber at $500 for the /.
| 700 feet, do not let the 900 feet en-
ter into their goods at a cost of $500
and freight. The lumber is charged
to the cost of the goods to be manu-
1actured at the market price $3.50
for the 900 feet.
cotton farmers who grow corr
and hay at cost of $500 a ton 70
hay, 40 cents a bushel for corn. shouI,
do as manufacturers do-not let tn
hay and corn enter the cotton crop a
, a less price than the market pric
for hay and corn.
When the cotton farmers know tn
cost OF their cotton, and get thei
loans and credits on a one to te
years time, will not be forced TO Sc
fourteen million bales in One-third Q
crop.
{ "If cotton farmers will believ
manufacturers, Railway Co.'S an
merchants know how to count tn
!, | cost on what they do, they are aske
I to consult the following eXplanatio
7 and accept the way to, count the COS
I Of cotton as described throughout tn
t booklet.
Notice, this year 1911. cotto
| Of Ii,
I cotton for less than s43. (Sho
v staple). And selling 500 pounds Ion
staple for less than 500. Tt
farmers are buying 500 pounds
C mems half-hose No. 10 1-2 at 25 cen
q a pair. and pays s1,500 for the sc
;. pounds of mems half-hose.. The co
o and profit on 5OO-pound bale Of CO
q ton, when manufactured into gent
4 half-hose, is divided in this way: Is
. Freight and railroads profit to co
.s ton merchants. I'd. Cotton merchan
a cost and profit. Sd. Freight and raj
&c roads profits to hosiery manufactu
# ers. 4th Hosiery manufacture
d cost, profits and per cent. lost
n weight while in process of manufa
II turing. 5th. Freight and railroad
. profits to jobbers. 9Th. Jobbers &C
20 and profit 7th Freight and ra
o roads profits from jobbers to me
- | chants 9Th. Merchants cost al
le profit.
or Interest On Investment.
y, Notice, railroad companies char
~ interest on their investments and ca
)h a profit Cotton merchants earn e
" penses and a profit on their buslne
ne Hosiery manufa cturerS earn eNpens
III and a profit on their business. JObbe
Sc earn expenses and a profit on tn
business. Merchants earn profit a
expenses. though in order to ass
o. in reducing the cost of lint cote
# they sacrifice a large per cent
it. their profits
TO Thus, you see. the railroads :
.lv four parts of the 81, 500. The colt
~. merchants get one part. The mar
on facturers get one part. The Jopt
Io oets one part The retail merChS
,,o GETS one part And the cotton farm
,a sell the first part. 500spounds OF
"a ton. at a loss Of S.. See-And
no buvs the same weight at cost OF