Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-29
COTTON IS AGAIN KING;
SITS ON GOLDEN THRONE
. lngs Have Changed in Last Few
Years. and South Comes
TO Its Own.
vmGINlA.cARoLINA IN FRONT
Money Crops Great Things for Dixie.
They Are All the lIcttcr, Because
in Meantime People Have Learned
to Live Without Their Profits.


Cotton IS King again! This good
year puts I; back on the throne in
greater glory than ii has known since
the days Immediately following the
War Between the states. Fifty years
ago the staple sold al this season for
about 40 cents the pound. In years that
followed il went down and down until
about twenty years ago and i, cents
the pound was the losing figure III
which the Southern farmer had TO sell
Il. That price drove Nirg inia farmers
In the ten or dozen counties that
raised cotton from its cultivation. and
they put peanuts ana other money
crops In its place.
Then came about change three
years AGO. since which time cotton has
been going IN. Tidewatcr Virginia and
Eastern Carolina farmers are coming
back to cotton and we'll they may.
In the current Issue of the Manu-
facturers' Record is a cotton story well
worth the consideration OF TidewatcT
Virgins and Eastern Carolina farmers.
The Record claims that cotton is no
longer the paupcr il was but is again
the king. sitting OH golden throne.
TIME HAS COME AND NOW is
FuR COTTON GROWER
Two years ago. claims the Record.
some people in the South. unwisely led,
were lIE 'll' " ~ Az W ''''' '''h
huy a bale Of cotton TO help the
South. This section, I'm part, with its
royal STAPLE sure TO he i'll demand soon
err or later. lost its nerve. ana was MIS-
led by those who posed the south rs
Il pRupeI. ana almost made tho world
believe that I, had lost lis backbone
because temporarily cotton was almost
unstable.
But things have changed and the time
has come for tho cotton grower. The
world is eagerly buying cotton at
prices which two Years ago would have
been deemed impossible. y short crop
two years in succession. ana less than
the worlds cousumptive requirements
even under war conditions. the heavy
demand FOR cotton for usc in explosives
which has resulted in making liuters
formerly worth / or > cents n pounn
now command AS nurh as hirh-rrado
cotton formerly sold for, added 10 the
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have combined In hiring nbotit unprc.
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