The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-05-08

Picking 10 bales cotton at 81
per hundred weight. ...... 10000
18 bushels planting seed at 81
a bushel ................ $500
10 per cent depreciation ON
5000 equipment .......... 5000
Incidental expenses ....... 5000
Ginning and bag and ties 10
o. c. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
$1.34s.0o
Income.
Z b.. c. 400 lbs. each at soc. 8 $4,000
249 bushels cotton seed at 81 $4,000
$1.0s0oo
The above farm should produce 10
b. Q. and tenant must pay three bales
rent. After paying entire proceeds OF ,
sale OF cotton and seed on his years,
expenses, he owes a balance Of $268.
Land planted in corn and hay win!
produce enough to feed horse.
have been engaged In farming1
for the past thirty years and ann
thoroughly familiar with the cost of
production being now extensively en-f
gagged In farming, and also thoroughly
familiar with same as a merchant
selling fertilizers and supplies, hav.s
ing been extensively engaged in the
mercantile business for the past thirty
years.
The above Is a correct statement
illustrating the cost of production OF
cotton. T. A. Amaker.
Referring Back to Se Cost Of Cotton
to the South.
Cotton production has cost tho
South all that have said and a vast
amount more. The cost ia so great
that it would require the judgment Of
God Almighty to render a decision
to what cotton has actually cost
the South. No mortal man can make
the estimate.
Henry Grady more than thirty-one
years ago delivered a speech in New
England, which made a more lasting
impression possibly on the country
than any one speech ever delivered
by any human being. The production
OF cotton in the South has prevented
his prediction from coming true. He
said in part:
when every farmer in the South
shall eat bread from his own fields
and meat from his own pastures and
disturbed by no creditor. and enslaved
by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming
gardens. and orchards and vineyards,
and dairies and barnyards, pitching
his crop in his wisdom and growing
them in independence. making cotton
his clean surplus, and selling 1t in his
own time, and in his chosen market,
and not at a masters biddipg-get.
ting his pay in cash and not in a re.
ceipted mortgage that discharges his
debt but does not restore his FREQ.
dom-then shall be breaking the full.
ness of our day"
The cost Of production OF cotton IN
the South has made the foyad Ameri.
can citizen realize that 1t is abso
lutely necessary for him in carrying
out his pledge to help make the world
safe for democracy. to help in every
way possible, using every ounce OF
energy at his command to help i'm.
prove conditions in the South, 20 that
1t will be a At place for people to
live in. He has made this decision be-
duty as q loyal American citizen and
because II Is his duty In Justice to
| God and man. He realizes:
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide;
In the strife OF truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side.
"Then to sidewith truth Is noble.
When we share our wretched crust
And It's prosperous to be just.
Then 1t is the brave man chooses,
While the coward stands aside,
Doubling in his abjeet spirit,
| Till his Lord is crucified."
south's Future At Stake.
| The South realizes that its futurs
existence Is at stake. and that 1t II
absolutely necessary to market, bank
and finance its cotton crop and that
this Is not done. the cotton produo
ton OF tho South win follow tho in.
diso production. and that the cotton
production will be referred to only as
something that once existed In the
South.
For this reason the farmer. mer>
chant and banker have absolutely do
ternined to arrange to market cot.
ton. They are forming a 5000 900 .0Oo
corporation for this purpose known as
the Marketing. Exporting and Financ.
Ing Corporation. The manipulators
and gamblers who have fed on the
life blood OF the South will, Of course,
violently protest. We realize that
commercial freedom OF the South 10
absolutely necessary to the future
progress and prosperity Of the South.
The banking interests of the South
will increase their capital and sur
plus by at least 80 per cent. and will
accept liberty loan bonds In payment
for additional stock issued. Oppor.
tunity only knocks once The South