Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-09

the opportunity for this service, ant
should be authorized to sell, on re
quest, for individual growers or groups
of growers on either foreign or do
mestic markets.
7. Warehousing VS.. Farm Storage.
| Even If a farmer can and will prop
erly house his cotton at home and pro
tect it from the usual ruinous weather
damage or country damage" storage
in an official warehouse nevertheless:
offers him two further notable advan'
tages he cannot get by farm storage
In the first place, warehouse cottor
,, is infinitely better collateral. Another
great advantage to the farmer Is thai
If he has his cotton warehoused ther
whenever he feels that the market best
justifies it, he can sell right away
without losing any time from impera'
tive farm work. The writer has storeo
all the cotton he made last year ano
some low grades left over from the
previous year. Suppose the price
should go up two or three cents 9
pound some week in June when every
farm laborer and every farm horse is
needed every minute in order to keeI
down weeds and grass? With the cot
ton in the warehouse in market
town, we can sell it without losing q
minute from work, whereas II stored
ON the farm this would be Impossible
|s. Will Help the Man Who "Board'
at Home"
It's a pity that some excellent men
in public life seem to think that II
farmer raises his bread and meat, ne
doesn't need a cotton warehouse. Such
an opinion simply shows that tne
speaker has never been up against the
realities and difficulties which beset
even the most progressive small far
mer. Food isn't all a man needs
Civilization, to say nothing of COM
fort. demands that the farmer-and all
the rest of the family-wear clothes
and the farmer also wishes to educate
his children, provide proper medlcal
attention for his sick, etc., etc. he
also wishes to equip his farm in up-to-
date fashion, he needs silo or fences
or a new barn, or drainage, or pure
berd cattle, or improved tools and
machinery. Consequently in the alb
sence of a proper warehousing system
the imperative need for these things
may force him to rush his cotton on
the market to his own loss and the
loss of his brother farmer, no matter
how carefully he has prepared to live
at home and board at the same place"
9. Justice of the rs Cents Bale Levy.
In some quarters it has been charg-
ed that under the new North Carolina
law, the cotton that is not stored Will
pay as much for the support OF the
warehouse system as the cotton that is
stored. This is not true at ALL On the
contrary if a man stores cotton -FOUR
or five months his warehouse charge
will probably be from $1.25 to 81 and
the bale levy 25 cents or a total cost
of $1.5O to $2.25 for the man who
stores. The man who doesn's store
will also get much of the benefit OF
better regulated marketing which
means better stabilized prices, and
pay only 25 cents a bale-and that only
for two years. So, far from being
Disseminated against, he will certain
ly get in these indirect benefits, just
as great profits il proportion to the
amount of money spent as the man
who stores.
10. Expert Opinion on Value of Ware
housing and Our North Carolina
System.
Following close on the heels of the
general demand for state cotton ware
house system in The south comes the
announcement that the National AS
sociation of Cotton Manufacturers Is
preparing to spend millions to de-
velop cotton warehouses here. 1t Is
very evident that our farmers must
choose between warehouse systems
controlled by our own states ano
warehouse systems controlled largely
by northern manufacturers. In some
form or other we are going to have
system, and the foremost authorities
are commencing the new South Caro-
lima law as q model for other states.
The south has hardly any better
known authority on cotton marketing
than ex-senator John L. NcLaurin
of South Carolina, until recently state
warehouse commissioner Of that state
In an interview in Winston-Salem
few days ago he said:
North Carolina now has the best
cotton warehouse law in the cotton
belt; and it is going to be the saliva
ton of the Gotten farmers in this
state"
And in a public address just after
the North Carolina warehouse la"
was passed, and before any question
as to it's constitutionality had been
raised anywhere, Mr.. James H. Pou
said in an address before the Greene
county cotton association:
1--WE have needed warehouse sys-
tenn these many years. We. will now
get it at the smallest sort of outlay
Such a system will help maintain
prices and will, I believe, elevate the
price of cotton. In fact, believe tha'
if every state will adopt the ware
house system, at least two cents
pound will be added to the price o.
cotton grown"
| This may be too much to expect
but even a 10 per cent fulfillment o.
such an expectation would more thar
Justify all the. effort which has peer
made to give the farmers OF Nortf
Carolina a modern and satisfactory
warehouse system. Let us encourage
farmers everywhere to make the mos
of the new facilities offered them.
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