The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-31
PLANT FOOD CROPS
|. ADVICE To FARMERS
OUSLksY DISCUSSES
THE COTTON SITUATION
IN GENERAL.
Al 10 Decline From 20 Cents To 10
Cents He says II Told You
Sso's---islanf Less
Cotton.
Hy CLARENCE oUsLEy.


That the world didn't need oGr cot
ton crop of Ii.5oe.oeu bales as badly
las the world thought three months
lago Is shown BY the fact that cotton
inaa dropped from 70 cents to II
iveafs- $50 bale. | can not resis
Itha temptation ta say 4 told you 50.
When GOTTEN reached is cents
lsaia that the price became speculat-
I've and was rs likely to decline as &C
advance. THAT was not prophecy. Il
Twas mere analysis Of economic con
Editions. plain To every observing
mind NOT cotton-nad.
This means thai there is enough
lection on hand to supply the mills
luntll the next crop comes In, and
THAT the mills expect an increased
acreage in 1917 and correspondinglg
Hover prices The acreage Of 1915,
with good weather. viii make a crop
|of 10000. 0un TO $4,000 900 bales.
How much or this can the world buy
|tn IAf--19Iss Shipments to Europe
are smaller al this time than al
the came time last year. and Eu-
rope Is getting poorer every day.
Slips are becoming scarcer; freight
room In Liverpool the middle OF adm
aary was quoted at SIS q hlsndred
E,s,a.as,,ss,s Ii many moro shfps are sunk
the rate may be prohibitiye by next
fall.
Germany Using Little Cotton.
Germany is practically doing with
ont cotton and Is making yarn out
of nettles and wood pulp.
II the war continues. these condi-
tons viii grow worse: ii it ends, the
demand Tor 1900, 600 bales of cot
ton a year fnr gunpowder vii cease.
Europe IL patching It's clothes and
VII. contiue to buy aparingly after
peace comes because the people will
be more poyerty-stgicken than the
south was after the war between the
states.
Eut whether there Is peace or
war. Europe viii spead her last dol
lar Tor food and feed, Il is not pos
sible to increase meat and bread
production in 1917 to such an extent
as to bring prices down TO the level
OF 1915: it il easily possible to in
crease cotton to an extent that viii
bring the price back to that level or
loser.
What viii it profit q farmer TO
raise cotton at even 20 cents with
which to buy bacon at so cents 4
poRad and flour at $40 a barrel:
What win he his condition il there
are only ships enough to carry wheat
add war supplies?
1t viii require Recent cotton to
make its purchasing power equal 70
It's purchasing power when it was
only worth II cents.
Macy May piay Game OF Chance.
Those who have cotton OF the 1916
crop should receive a good price for
1t and viii do so. il the increased
acreage Of 1917 does not cause the
apinners 10 buy more spaEiugly be-
tween nov and August or If The fur
thee destruction OF merchant ships
does not make ocean transportation
more uncertain Eat those who ara
counting upon big cotton crop this
year at high prices are INDUCING in
game OF chanee which an ;-rdInagy
tlre horn gambler would scorn.
The only safe plan Of farming for
l917 IS to make sure Of food for
The family and feed Tor The live
stock, ard then TO put what acreage
remains III cotton OK other money
crops.
The banker. the merchant or the
landlord who uses his influence 9TH
erwise Is taking fearful respon-
aibiIity. the chances axe two to one
that be will put the farmer back TO
shere NE waa before conditions re-
qH5ted the south to raise it's food and
feed.
am speaking Of tae farmers whc
.tul the soIi, not Of the men who col
leet rent or interest OF make profits
en- merchandise. The banker, the
landlord and the merchant may
prosper by Affection farming though
they would prosper more surely and
more enduringly by food and feed
farming. but their prosperity by all
cotton farming can be maintained
Ionly by exploiting the land OF tbs
labor. that is by exhansting soil fer
tilitsaf sAps sYsenYFtE Fs4a stl u,
Iof l5S pif lhls sdnShlda u ilistless
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Aihert iiniey Killed az WILSON.
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