The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-11-16
BETTER GET YOUR
WHEAT SEED At ONCE

| The three banks of Manning informs
their friends and patrons that while
their stock of seed wheat has been
greatly reduced they still have con-
siderable quantity on hand for distri-
button and as there is yet ample time
for planting they will be pleased to
supply those who have been unable
to sow wheat on their land.
The recent heavy depreciation in the
price of cotton has been something of
disappointment to many who have
been holding the small amount made
on their farms for better prices. The
facts are: much is written and said
about the worlds need for cotton but
little about what the world will pay
for cotton under varying quantities of
production.
The supposition is the consumption
OF cotton IS governed, largelD, as is
every other commodity, by the price at
which it can be bought, for instance,
at five cents per pound the world will
buy possibly twenty million bales of
cotton lat seven cents per pound pos
slbly eighteen million bales, at ten
cents per pound, the world would like
ly buy fifteen million bales of cotton,
at twelve and half cents per pound
1t would likely take fifteen million
bales while at fifteen cents per pound
thirteen and half million bales would
likely fill all demands, and at prices
above this proportionately less would
would be bought.
| The large consumption of cotton in
the past has been due to the ability
of the Southern States, by reason of
their cheap negro labor and admirable
or otherwise tenant system, to pro-
duce cotton at prices that eliminated
| fabrics made of other raw materials
| from common use.
Even among people of the South,
when cotton is high in price, the sale
OF linen, silk and woolen goods is
croneously stimulated, at such times
1T not being an uncommon thing to see
cotton pickers in silk dresses, and high
priced laborers in silk shirts and cost
ly woolen clothing, while mills and
manufacturing plants substitute bar
rels and burlaps for cotton sacks. The
| cotton growers are very much graft
| he'd and welcome the more substantial
wood food containers as affordinp
them better means of keeping pro-
visions while being consumed than the
common cotton sack.
In view of the conditions named
above we can not under boil wccvil
conditions grow cotton again at prices
prevailing prior to the Worlds War
owing to large increase in cost, and
should the South as a whole succeed
under stimulus of the price at present
in growing normal crop, or sufficient
to bring the price much below that
now prevailing, without ample food
and forage supplies among us, there
can not be other than great suffering
| and prvation as a result
1t is for these reasons that the three
banks of Manning are asking their
friends and patrons not to neglect for
age and food crops for a length of
time until we are better able to grow
cotton with better assurance of profit
than is now presented and to thus
avoid the necessity of entering into
obligations for the payment of debts
incurred for commodities which can be
made at home.
AS stated in our former letter, the
people in manufacturing centers are
very optomistic over tho supply of cot
ton in sight, their opinion is that with
the large carry over from last year
with the prospect from recent reports
OF larger crop being made this year
than was estimated early in the sea-
son, and in view of the foreign demand
continuing light by reason of restrict
ed credits there cannot be any great
shortage of cotton until another crop
determines the actual conditions.
HONOR EOD DAATnI orrTnnr