Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-02-04
HARRIS SAYS HOLD.
Commissioner Of Agriculture Gives
out Some Sensible Talk.

The fight against the cotton bears
Is on, according to q statement given
out at the office Of B. Harris. commits
stoner Of agriculture, last night. Fol-
lowing Is the statement:
Already it Is being freely predicted
in high cotton circles that the cotton
growers are going to plant the big
gest acreage ever known. The report
is that this year they will plant 49,.
100000 acres. Now this is all bear
dope they want to scare spot holders
and get them to turn loose their spot
cotton. Pay no attention to future
quotations; they can not spend board
cotton. The spinner Is out Of the mar
ket, both the European and the Amer
lean spinners. They are looking to the
cotton brokers who are bear specula-
tors to furnish the mills their cotton
of whom they have contracts with for
future delivery, and the mills VIII soon
begin to call on them to fill their con-
tracts. Then they will put the price
up on spot cotton a little, for they
know some suckers will bite and they
will get little spot cotton to keep
them going for short while. No one
knows the farmers better than the bear
spectators In the cotton market.
They know exactly how to handle him
and scare him so that he will turn
his spot cotton loose.
"I hope the farmers will learn q les
son from such bear dope and plant
this year 30,000,000 acres, instead OF
the 100000 acre crop. A S0.o0o.000
acre crop will add ten cents per pound
on the spot cotton now on hand. OF
which there Is now about 6,000,0e0
bales in the hands Of farmers and mer-
chants. II this cotton is held for the
price set for 1t, IS cents per pound, 1t
will add millions Of dollars TO the
south and save the south from bank
ruptcy. It will also add 20 cents per
pound to the crop we will grow this
pay you to hold this crop Until the
price, IS cents, is secured The way
to get this price Is to curtail cotton
acreage 80 per cent this year, fertilizer
so per cent. Is 1t not better for you
to raise ten bales and get 5000 bale
for them than to raise 20 bales and get
500 for them? Brother farmers, stop!
think! and figure, and you need not
be asked to cut the acreage. All you
have to do Is just to use good, COM
mon horse sense and you will win
this fight. It Is in your hands. VIII
the farmers do It? I believe they
will.
'T am proud to say the farmers are
not the farmers they were, even two
years ago; not the farmers they were,
even one year ago. The famer has
learned more in the first 80 days OF this
year than he has learned In any ten
years of the past. When you can get
a man to think along lines for his
success, you have done the greatest
thing for him you could do, he viii
work out the rest for his betterment.
II you give man money, he viii spend
il, probably the next day or the same
day you give 1t to him.
"If you give him knowledge. he has 1t
all the balance Of his life and he can
impart it to others, and all he needs Is
to come into possession Of real facts
and conditions and then ne wli
change his method of marketing his
crops. Farmers, hold, cut acreage and
fertilizers, use well directed brains
and victory is yours"