The Nevada County picayune., 1916-12-28
DON'T GAMBLE M
 COTTON FUTURES
Faseners Should Raise Everything Possible to Bs Consumed on
 the Place.

Never in the history of the SoQtA has 1t been ot greater importance that tho farmers of the South enter tho new year with . determination to ap ply safe. we'll established principles of business to their farm manage mont. says w. c. Lassattsr, acting d. rector of the mteasion Division of the partment of Agriculture. With tho unusual high prices prevailing for corn. oats. hay, -four, meat, lard, butter, eggs. potatoes and all other products no cotton farmer can afford to buy any of them, even with cotton at 20c, when they can just as we'll be produced at home This era of high prices for all food and feed | products makes it imperative that every farmer enter the new year of 1917 with the determination to grow at home everything possible that is to be consumed on the place.
 Cotton, too, is now bringing high price, but what assurances have we that the price will be high in the fall of 1917? The man who this spring | plants his entire farm to cotton with the expectation of high prices in the fall is gambling just as surely as is the man who deals in cotton futures. Every man should be determined to start the new year right with tue de- termination to avoid gambling on 1917 prices. Cotton when produced must be held or sold and cannot be con- sumed. These other food and feed prod uets needed on every farm must be consumed and 1t matters little how high the prices go so long as every farmer has produced an abundance of these products for his own use
 The Successful Farmer Must Apply
 Business Principles
 N is imperative that the farmer make of himself just as successful businsss man as his netghbor in town who sells him the goods and deals In his products. He should bear in mind thrsfoss the following facts with ref srenee to good business:
 hAsproAts from a business are in. eseassd by reducing the cost of ope- rating the business and by increasing the cash income from the business. Producing st home the corn. oats. hay and other feed stuffs, the meat. lard, milk. butter, eggs and vege tables needed on the place very materially reduces the cost of making the cotton crop. These things. therefore, enable the farmer to secure greater profits from his cot ton production. To increase the cash income on the cotton farm 1t will be necessary to provide other sources of cash income and not depend on cot ton by itself. Live stock. and all live stock priducts are now unusually high, and these offer splendid field for the progressive farmer. That this fact is recognized by farmers in Ar kansas is evidenced by the fact that over l,500 head of breeding cattle, mostly registered. have been introduce ed into Arkansas in the last ten months. Cattle. hogs. poultry, mules and horses offer good sources of in come for the cotton farmer who will use them as side line to his busi- ness of cotton farming.
 New Years Resolutions For Arkansas
 Farmers.
 So much of the success of the farm depends upon the system of manage ment that the College of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas believes that every farmer should start the year 1917 with the following New