The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-01
THE LAW. STAND,
PRES. OABBS ADVISES
GIVE ACREAGE REDUCTION
FAIR TRIAL, HE
SAYS
HELP FARMER
of State Farmers' Union
Writes of Marketing and 9th
er Problems.

II wish that I could get the ear Of
every farmer in the State to beg that
this law be allowed to stand until it
be thoroughly tested out by three
or five years trial." says z. w. Dabbs,
president OF the South Carolina State
Farmers union I'm an address to the
farmers of the State, in which he
makes an appeal for a retuntfon of the
cotton acreage reduction law.
:. MIR. Dabbs' letter follows:
To the Members of the Farmers
Union and All the Farmers of the
State:
/ noticed In the papers Of Monday
that there is a movement t o induce
the next Legislature to repeal the cot
ton acreage law. I wish I could get
the ear OF every farmer in the State
to beg that this law be allowed to
stand until it can be thoroughly tested
out by three or five years trial. I do
most sincerely hope that no farmer
will be SO determined to show his in
dependence, o. to assert his liberty to
do as he pleases with what is his own,
as to go into. the courts to set aside
this wise law. 1 can not believe that
there is a single farmer IL the State
whose condition will not he. better
next November il he lives up to the
letter and spirit OF the cotton acreage
law, than If he succeeds in smashing
that law either in the courts or In the
legislature. 1t is the most conserva-
tive and sensible cotton reduction
measure that has ever been proposed,
and bears equitably upon all farmers
alike. rich or poor, landlord or ten
ant. In my opinion the farmers who
have any kick arc the few who sell
corn and hay at fancy prices to their
more improyident neighbors. They
will have to take what their stun Is
worth hereafter in the worlds mar
ket less the freight. The average
farmer will find his own farm mar
ket that has been O buyer plus the
freight, plus the commissions, plus
the time prices, will absorb all that
he can make and a " him these COM
missions and profits that are making
every one but himself rich.
Besides with less cotton to engross
all his time, If ne plans right ne can
harvest oats and wheat 80 to 60 days
before b grain belt and sell at the
highest prices in the worlds market.
Or course this g that the thresh-
ers must be ready, to- sack tho, grain
right from the leid anu mat the FARM
III ACao5s IL have
organized some system of marketing.
The biggest work that Clemson has
ever undertaken lies right here, and
Ii the powers That be in Clemson and
washington back DR.. Long to carry
out what I know he has wanted to do
ever Since ! first met him, there will
be- sane marketing in South Carolina
next June and July.
Right o is the time to be plan
ming for sacks for this grain. Every
man who expects to have a hundred
bushels OF oats to sell ought to pledge
to use new cotton sacks to put them
In; four-bushel- sacks for o.ts and
two-bushelk sacks for wheat and rye
would be about the. right size 1875
pounds and 100 pounds. respectively.
trust that this is a matter that tho
farmers union will take up at the
January meeting and we should like
TO hear from manufacturers what
they will charge for such sacks. 1 hope
this matter will be taken up at once
and pushed through Certainly IL we
demand that salt, -four. etc, be nut
up in cotton, we ought. TO put orr
grain on the market in cotton sacks.
The wheat growers of Washington
through the farmers union sent q conn
mittee to Atlanta for 10000 900 cot
ron sacks three years ago and could
not get them. And the hop growers
OF California had to go to PHILADELPHIA
for cotton twine, when the mills OF
q Carolinas and Georgia ought to
have supplied both.
e. w. Dabbs,
President South Carolina State gar
mers' Union