The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-17

, Present prices are only hctlGous
prices based on a temporarily de-
| moralized market.
Nevertheless If one-fourth Of the
cotton farmers Of the South are such
fools as to accept this fictitious un-
der valuation for 1920 cotton, prices
prices on the whole crop will be iow-
cred. We must keep anybody and
everybody from selling at present
prices.
2. Go to your county mass meet
ing next Monday, September 90
Every county in the South is asked
to hold mass meeting OF its cotton
farmers on this date, to make plans
for holding, warehousing, cutting
acreage and cooperative marketing.
Go, and get your neighbors to go,
both landlord and tenant, black and
white. We must educate everybody
md all classes to the Importance or
s;his fight. And see to it that every
body makes some contribution for
supporting the Cotton ASSOCIATION IN
It's plans. A good method will be to
have every grower authorize his GIN
aer to deduct 10 to 25 cents bale
fer the organization. Business men
should subscribe literally, for no one
will be hurt more than they if the
South's spending power and debt pay
ing power is cut in half.
8. Cut your cotton acreage next
year by sowing record breaking
grain crop this fall.-Dont just talk
about "cutting down acreage"-a
negative sort of program. Tell every
BODY to cut his cotton acreage by
owing more wheat, oats and rye, and
,y sowing more clover to enrich the
and for corn next year. This is the
,nly sensible way to reduce acreage.
4. Put your cotton in warehouse
and organize a cooperative market
.ng association.-Remarkably impor-
;ant was the comprehensive report on
cooperative marketing adopted at
Montgomery, the result of months OF
labor by Cotton Specialist Murph
and others. The report tells just
low to start cooperative selling with
,ficial grading CIR chasing in your
community.
AS for warehouses, if there is not
efficient warehouse room in your
,ection, it will pay to hurry up the
construction of buildings of g
cheaper sort. In next weeks Pro-
yressive Farmer we expect to pre-
,ent some plans worked cut by Mr..
D. c. Walty, vice president \and
manager of the Arkansas Cotton as
;ociaticn, whereby 1000 bales may
oe taken care Of in structure cost
ng only $1,000. We do not believe:
# course, that every community
should be content with such cheap
md impermanent construction, but
shis at least indicates that no COM
nunity need accept the ridiculous
prices now offered by bear specuia-
.ors on the ground that it can't house
it's crop.
5. Do all you can to help men
yho are in a tight place financially
rom having to sacrifice their cotton.
Make it point to see the presi-
!ent or cashier of the bank you do
BUSINESS with. Tell hi ma large part
# his business comes from farmers
md that farmers expect him to go
he limit in helping them now. See
7our merchant and tell him he had
7etter suffer some temporary incon-
,enience, better wait until he can
vait no longer on his cotton Gus
.omers, rather than force the South
,ack into the poverty and backward
ness it formerly suffered. And if you
1ave tenants or neighbors who insist.
IN selling anyhow, buy their cotton
f possible, and hold it out of the
'egular channels of trade.
6. Demand also a fair price for
cotton seed.-This subject has al
eady been discussed in previous is
ues of The Progressive Farmer. The
lecision of the Montgomery meeting
vas that farmers who can use cotton
eed meal for feeding should eX.
hange cotton seed for an equa'
Tuantity of cottonseed meal, OF
;hould sell seed when ton of seed
$ selling for as much as ton Of
neal.
If this battle for better cotton
,rices is to be won, the growers
themselves must fight to the finish.
lere are six definite things every
nan can do. Check up yourself anc
40 how many of them YOU are will