The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1917-02-02
DON'T GAMBLE ON
COTTON FUTURES
Farmers Should Raise Everything
Possible to Be Consumed on
the Place.

mas IL DeeH Oh STGdteT Importance INA
, the farmers OF the South enter the
new year with determination to ap
ply safe, well established principle:
of business to their farm manage
ment, says w. C. Lassatter, acting di
rector of the Extension Division of the
University of Arkansas and U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. With the
unusual high prices prevailing for
corn, oats, hay, Sour, meat, lard
butter, eggs, potatoes and all other
to buy any OF them, even with cotton
at zoe, when they can just as well
be produced at home. This era
of high prices for all food and feed
products makes II 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 the 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
ucts 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
1t is imperative that the farmer
make of himself just as successful
business man as his neighbor in town
who sells him the goods and deals in
his products. He should bear in mind
therefore the following facts with ref
erence to good business:
The profits from business are in
creased by reducing the cost of ope
rating the business and by increasing
the cash income from the business.
Producing at 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 it 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 1900 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 a side line to his bust
ness of cotton farming.
New Years Resolutions For Arkansas
Farmers.
So s1I,h Of the success OF the farm
depends upon the system of manage
fnent that the College OF Agriculture
of the University of Arkansas believes
/ that every farmer should start the
year 1917 with the following New
Years resolutions, not to be broken.
but to be lived up to strictly through
out the year:
I hereby resolve to grow sufficient
corn to do me twelve months.
| hereby resolve to grow sufficient
oats to last twelve months.
hereby resolve to grow sufficient
hay to provide amply for my stock for
Twelve months
hereby resolve to provide gar
den that will furnish fresh vegetables
twelve months in the year.
hereby resolve to keep sufficient
live stock to furnish milk and butter
and meat and lard for the family.
! hereby resolve to keep sufficient
poultry to furnish chickens and eggs
for the family and perhaps few to
sell
Above all | hereby resolve to Sc
manage my farm this year that al
least a portion of it will be richer next
year than it is this.
/ With this creed borne in mind any
good cotton grower can feel safe in
> putting the remainder of his land into
cotton because the cost o. production
will be less and the profits greater.
Play safe and start the new yea
with that system of farm management
that will always insure a living re
CARELESS OF the price OF cotton.
FARMERS, ATTENTION!
Every farmer with money investe
I In Arkansas land who believes in bet