The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-11-29

With the price of the staple production
the plight of the cotton planter nothing short of agica 1t
desperate situation indeed and the who unable hole
his product for the better price which hoped for has choc
but take The only mitigating the
fact that is driving farmers into adopting prevent
the of such calamity the future From Alabama
comes the that farmers organizing Nine to One Clubs
he members of which pledge themselves to plant of land
to o@d ann and fefd ID crops a to one t of cotton f M o
the salvation OF the cotton country depends dverscation of
the Review of reviews Mr. Miller writes GiIs as foow
The first thing farmers must do is IS to put their farming
able to base the selling price of cotton upon the of
production until they own the when it is made A
cotton crop morgaged to pay for the living of its
while he producing it belongs the grower but
TO the who supplied him. 1t be sold when the
supply calls for his money The South had made great
progress in years away from the alcoton methods
of the old days. but still takes up large pro-
portion of the cultivated land and is still too largely de-
pended upon to supply LIVING for its producers The
but also the large landowners the merchants and the
bankers of the cotton country to the benefits of rational
system Of DIVERSIFIED farming must be continued Until
the South raises its living speaking at large and
makes cotton really money or surplus crop it cannot
hope to market its cotton in orderly fashion.
Every increase in the acreage planted to food and
staple and profitable livestock industry adds
the cotton growers ability both produce cotton
reasonable cost and to finance the crop after it is pro-
duced The present yield of cotton is shamefully
ton is much higher than it need be- The growing of
cotton in regular rotation with the grains and the
solbuildmg legumes could bring the produc
=ton up to halfbale more in five years time Many
farmers have already greatly increased the productive
farmers who have backed their growing by
judcous raising of lvestock-aS many Georgia
have done with hogs for example as $50 many Missss
pp farmers doing with cattleare the farmers will
suffer least from this years depression Of prices
The best security a individual OF section can have
against going broke any particular crop diver
sicaon Of crops
Once the farmers really the cotton crop eoopera-
tive marketing associations, utilizing the National Ware
house Act, will be in position let crop out as the
market demands it, instead of dumping nearly all of it,
now upon the market ginned They will also
be in position to sell directly to the mills
porters
The National Warehouse Act $ a very simple measure.
but 1t provides the means by which the coon-grower
can hod his cotton and borrow money instead of
rushing to market when the price unduy low Briefly
tins act prlvideS for the establishment
mnt supervision, of warehouses of approved type The
managers OF these warehouses be bonded and the
buildings and their contents fully protected by
IN one OF them the store his bale
beng weighed and graded taken having
transferable warehouse receipt issued against This
cep IS by ITS nature collateral of high class
the Federal Reserve system makes possible for
bank loanmg money rediscount it, giving it
liked standing in any money market Already these
warehouse receipts have general acceptance basis
for credit but the number of bonded
small that no appreeiab of the crop be
in this way
sanely diversified farming system. building of
approved warehouses the organization cooperative
keting associatjons-these combine make
farmer plain and safe road present troubles
to financial independence and stabilized price great
sale crop