The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-04-05
PLANT FOODSTUFFS.
ID. r. Coker Emphasizes Importance
of Raising Sufficient Grain Crops.

JuSt dI tlllS lllllo lu6TG is no more
interesting and instructive reading
for the farmers than the market page
of the daily papers and every farmer
should subscribe to paper that regu-
larly quotes the markets on all COM
modities that he is interested in.
Can anything be more instructive
than these extracts from the market
page of today's paper?
Highest war prices yet were
touched today in the wheat market"
Cash wheat No. 3 red $2.06 to
S2.06 IL" (Chicago.)
Corn No. 3 yellow S1.21 to $1.21-
3-4" (Chicago).
Cash wheat No. 2 red S2.19 to
1920" (St. Louis).
Cash corn No. white $1.23 1-2
10 S1.24" (St. Louis).
"Hogs-Receipts 21 900; steady at
Is cents above yesterdays average;
bulk Is cents to 1926" (Chicago).
Cattle Receipts 1000; steady.
Native beef cattle $40 to 1890"
(Chicago).
Cotton October delivery, New
York closing IS cents"
Ribs July delivery Chicago
1880" October not quoted).
"Corn-July delivery $1.75' (Oc-
tober not quoted).
Cash corn is quoted at several diff
ferent towns over the State at an
average price of about s1.45 per
bushel.
Let the farmer who is planning to
put in all the cotton he can without
making adequate provision for food
stuffs and live stock study these fig
ures closely. Can he figure a profit
if he pays S1.45 for corn, 20 cents
for meat and 5000 for flour, and
sells his cotton next October at II
IL cents per pound? Based on yes
terdays market the above are about
the figures that he must use in his
calculations.
There are market tendencies, how
ever, that should also be taken into
consideration. Provisions have re-
Gently advanced much more rapidly
than cotton and may continue to do
so. Cotton, it is true, is scarce, but
foodstuffs are scarcer and the world
can get along without cotton very
much better than without foodstuffs
European countries will have to de-
pend very largely on America for
food for the next two years whether
the war lasts that long or not, as
their productive capacity cannot
reach an average figure until some
time after the close of the war.
1 am not pessimistic as to the fu-
ture prices for cotton, but l can't see
any excuse for more than moderate
acreage in cotton under present con-
ditions, with foodstuffs at the highest
point We have ever known and the
boil weevil on the threshold of our
State A little study and intelligent
cooperation between farmers will en-
able them to raise hogs at moderate
cost and market them at price to
net on present market around 13
cents on foot.
Many farmers have lands which
will provide good summer pasturage
for few head of cattle and hogs,
and these could be carried through
the winter and fattened almost with
out cost by grazing them during the
fall and winter upon Abruzzi rye
planted in their cotton fields and vel
vet beans planted in their corn fields.
There is still time for our farmers
to respond to the appeals Of our
State and national authorities and of
the newspapers to increase their acre
age of foodstuffs. The outcome of
the great world war is going to de-
pend very largely upon who controls
the supply of foodstuff. The farmer
who draws from instead OF adding to
the country's supply Of foods will be
a hindrance to the nation instead of
a help in the prosecution of the war.
Patriotism and self interest both say
plant corn, plant beans, raise plenty
of garden truck, raise hogs and cattle
and waste nothing that can be utiliz-
ed as feed for man and beast. Will
our farmers rise to the occasion .
David R. Coker, Hartsville, March
80.
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