The courier-index., 1917-08-03
BEST CORN MARKET
is FOUND AT HOME
THUS COTTRELL ADVISES
THOSE WHO SEEK TO SELL
CROP.-NEEDS EXCEED
YIELDS.

MEMPHIS, July SUI dfmerS OF
Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee.
who have been bombarding the farm
development bureau of the Memphis
Chamber of Commerce with inquiries
as to where they can find a market
for their corn and their wheat are
contemplating the method of their
own misfortunes, according to H. M.
Cottrell, agriculturist of the bureau.
Mr.. Cottrell is busily engaged in
writing his numerous inquiries that
the very worst thing that could hap
pen to the men in these states is for
chem to turn their corn and wheat
onto the market at the time that the
corn and wheat states are selling
sheir products.
"Put your grain in bins and eleva-
tors, don't worry about putting the
money for it in the banks, is the
advice Mr. Cottrell is giving.
An inquiry typical of the numerous
communications received is published
below, received from law firm at
Alderman, Miss. The inquirers ask:
Il desire information from you
whit refernce to the sale of corn.
You will please give me the names OF
any concerns that I might be able to
contract to sell an unlimited amount
of corn to them. The farmers will
have something like million bushels
of corn for the fall market in this
section of Mississippi"
Here are the figures of the govern
ment on the corn crop in Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee for 1916, up
on which Mr.. Cottrell is basing his
advice, not to throw grain products
on the market this fall.
Last year Mississippi produced 49,
161, 900 bushels of corn; Tennessee
prouced 89,578,OOO and Arkansas pro-
duced 46,437,0O bushels. This year
the figures will be way over the
amount of last year, in Tennessee,
probably 125,000,00O bushels, in Ark
ansas probably $4,000, 900 and in Mis-
sissippi probably 100,000,0O0 bushels
of corn.
Even if these figures are reached
the farmers of the states concerned
will have no more corn than they can
use. Last year, the farmers of each
of the three states named used as
much corn as they expect to raise this
year. The market for corn, there
fore, is not in the east and the north,
but upon the Mississippi farms.
at is a senseless task, and also
costly one said Mr.. Cottrell, to
ship this corn out of here right now,
and then before the end of the year,
or perhaps in the spring of next year,
for the north to be reshipping this
grain back here where it should have
remained when it was produced"
Kramer Darragh of rne Darragh
Grain Company of Little Rock is au-
thority for the statement that of the
nearly $4,000, 900 bushels of corn pro-
duced in Arkansas last year, probab-
ly only $4,000 to $4,000 bushels were
placed on the general market in Little
Rock. the grain center of the state.
Cash corn is selling at 1925 in Little
Rock and at $2.43 in Memphis. Not
much Arkansas corn was handled on
the Memphis market of the 1916 crop.
The best use that farmers OF the
tri-states can make of their wheat is
just to dry it, sack it, then store it for
seed, according to ]. E. Stansell,
county demonstration agent for Shell
by County, who is conducting cam
paign for 10000 acres of wheat
around Memphis.
Last year Arkansas produced L.
$4,000 bushels Of wheat; Tennessee
produced 100000, and Mississippi
8,117,OOO, according to the govern
ment figures. This production will be
increased considerably this year, but
nowhere above the local demand, the
farm experts say.
Therefore, Mr.. Cottrells advice is
Off the farmer to look ahead at the
dollar and stay off the immediate
dime