Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-10-07
LOOKS BAD TO STACKHOUSE.
fav0rs Cutting Out Cotton Alto
gethcr for Two Years.
tNews and Courier, 5th.)

tNews and Courier, 5th.)
| have just returned from New
Orleans a convert to planting no cot
ton in 1915. If the ten cotton
States will pass laws prohibiting the
cultivation Of cotton next year, we
will get positive relief from this cri-
sis and will enrich the South in three
ways: First, such laws will give an
increased value to the 1914, 1915
and 1916 crops of more than one
billion dollars Second, such laws
will prevent depreciation in per-
sonal property and real estate OF
from one to three billion dollars.
Third, such laws will stamp out boil
weeVll and remove an impending
danger hanging over this State like
a nightmare.
Taking up the thr ways Of en-.
rching the South. AZ South Caro-
bna in particular on, critic says
your figures of one Dir ion dollars 20
the South or ore huuu cd and TWEEN
ty million dollars to South Carolina
are only wild dream. Get out PEN
Gil and paper and make a few calcu-
latlonS. If you felt sure not stalk
of cotton could be planted next year.
don't you think you could sell cotton
now made at an average price Of Is
cents per pound? 1 don't mean you
could get Is cents at once, but by
August, 1916, you can average that
price. Our present crop at Is cents
will bring the South one billion, one
hundred and TWENTY-FIVE million dol
lars. Our cotton seed from this
crop would advance wonderfully in
price and would bring us more than
one hundred million dollars. We
could plant our present cotton lands
OF 81 million acres in corn in 1915
and would make at least four hun
dred million dollars Of corn, provid-
ed we only made Is bushels per acre
and can sell it at rs cents per bushel.
Our 1916 cotton crop would be fully
as valuable as the present one. The
seed from the 1916 crop would bring
$50 or more per ton on an average.
II we are to continue to plant cotton.
even so per cent Of present acreage
in 1915, | doubt if we will average
more than Z u cents from this crop.
If we get more than this price the
balance will go for interest, storage,
insurance and damage from expos-
ure. Even with existing conditions
no one looks for less than a ten
million bale crop in 1915. Add to
this five to six million bales, which
we expect to carry over, and we will
have a lower price in 1915 than at
present. This lower price will en-
tend to 1916, and about that time
the boil weevil will come along, en-
failing a continuation Of depression.
DO not be deceived with an idea that
this war will soon be over. | am
satisfied 1T will last fully year and
possibly may continue two years.
Second, If we shall sell this crop
at around 7 cents per pound net and
low prices continue for two years, the
value OF personal property and real
estate will drop SO per cent. If you
have made a report to Bradstreet or
Dun that you are worth $4,000, you
can report next March that you are
worth only $1,000. This decline IN
values will take place regardless of
whether your investment is in cotton
lands or city real estate,
Third. We know the boil weevil Is
marching to the Atlantic seaboard
with the same pitiless, resistless and
destructive results as did Sherman in