Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-12
very Truly yours,
MANGET BROTHERS CO.,
By V. E. MANGET.
What Farmers Face

The article referred to in Mr.,
Manget's card follows:
Because Europe has been unable
to buy the cotton she needed, and
will be unable for several years to
come to buy what her people need on
account of the great war debts, the
consumption of cotton will be much
less than before the war. On the
thirty-first of July there will be
large surplus on hand, and if there is
another twelve or fourteen million
bale crop produced in 1921 we will
have about twenty or twenty-five
million bales of American cotton on
hand, and in sight.
This will mean a price somewhere
between six and ten cents.
What will be the effect of a price
like this for our money crop. ALL
who thing at all can fully realize
the effect even now, and in time to
avert the blow.
1t will mean bankruptcy, and
white slavery for the farmers Of the
south. 1t will amean ragged, unedu-
Gated children, and bent, wrinkled,
prematurely aged mothers.
1t will mean decreased purchas-
ing power, dull business, and bank
ruptcy for many merchants. 1t will
mean less wages, less production, for
our manufacturing interests. 1t will
mean stagnation and loss of profits
to all business in the south
Now Tor remedy, and l will sug-
gest the following, for the considera-
ton of our farmers, bankers, and
| business men. Let every bank, and
any credit, demand that the farmer
| diversity, and grow at least enough
| food, and feedstuff to care for his
farm, and then plant from five to
seven acres of cotton to the plow.
If the farmer refuses to agree to
| this nl9n. don't give him a dollar s
credit This may seem drastic, but
| we have a serious condition con-
| fronting us, and the remedy must be
| drastic to effect a cure. This is a
| business proposition pure and simple.
| A few months ago when the whole
| country was thrown into a panlcky
condition, by the tightening in the
money markets, and the ADVANCING
interest rate brought on by the Fed
eral Reserve banking system what
| did the factories of the country do?
| Did they continue TO operate on full
time, and dump their finished goods
| on the market regardless of the cost?
| No, they shut down or continued to
| run on short time in order to cut
| production, and save heavy losses.
Every business protects Itself ex-
| cept the farmers, and they can, and
| 1 believe they will, if the bankers
| and merchants will help them az l
| have suggested above.
| SIX or seven 1QllllOu Ud1SS VI COL-
| ton this year will sell for more money
| than 100000 or 14,00O,OOO.
Less work, More Money
| By cutting the cotton acreage the
| farmer will get just as much money,
and have his own food, and the teed
| for he will have less work II he d.
| versifies, and can build up his land
| at the same time and make his busl-
ness much more profitable IN every
| way.
expect to follow the following
nlan on nv farm. 1 plant seven
acres of cotton, three acres OF oats,
eight acres of corn, two acres OF soy
beans for hay, one acre In sweet po-
tatoes, one-half acre in cane 1or
| syrup, to each ploW.
This plan will give me On 1our
horse farm, twenty-eight acres In
cotton, thlrty-two acres in corn, four
acres in sweet potatoes, twelve acres
in oats, followed by COW peas, two
| in cane, and eight in soy beans Tor
seed, and hay. Then I expect to en-
courage good gardens, and plenty or
| chickens and eggs. I intend t pre-
pare the land we'll, and plant good
| big boil, early variety OF cotton as
| early as possible.
| Will make the rows little wider
than usual, and leave the cotton
| thicker in the rows. so as to let the
| hot sun in on the weeVils, and induce
the cotton to put on as much early
| cotton as possible. Then cultivate
often, and plow the cotton later In
| the summer than we did before the
weevil came in order to keep the cot
ton growing, and putting on new
fruit, for the weevil to eat, so he
| will let the early bolls mature.
| By this plan I hope to be able to
gather twenty bales from the twen-
| ty-eight acres. Am planning to pick
up the first squares that fall, and
burn them so as to destroy the
first and second crop Of weevil.
Tip to Merchants
| One trouble will be for the farm
er to get the seed he will need, if
he is to diversity, and right here
| the merchants can be a wonderful
help if they will buy in time sup
| ply of seed needed so the farmers
can get them at the right time. Last
week when the ground got dry
enough to pillow, and two of my
neighbors wanted to SOW oats, there
was no seed to be had in Cave
Spring, so they missed the chance
| to have some early oats.
If some other will give a better
plan, I will be glad to drop my plan,
and take his; but we must have a
fixed plan and work to it,
l am not entirely dependent on
farming, but I love farming, and !
love our farmers. and want to see
them succeed, and if the above will
be any help they are welcome to it
u l.