The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-04-28
REGARDING HALF AND HALF
COTTON.

10 COiiNGIilCus
| make this reply to inform those
who wish to plant Half and Half cot
ton to go ahead and plant it. Crook
Brothers have made arrangements
with a leading buyer to handle it. This
buyer said, "The buyers who said il
won't sell, don't know what they are
talking about. You people go ahead
and plant it, shall take care of it. II
will sell and sell as other short staple
cotton" Mr.. Calip, the travelling fruit
tree salesman informs me that many
formers informed him that they want
ed to plant Half and Half cotton, as il
would, and always had made them
more clear profit per acre than any
cotton they had ever planted. They
also informed him that after Huff's
school house campaign that they were
afraid to plant it. Bro. Farmers, il
you want to plant Half and Half cot
ton, plant it; if you want to plant Elk.
press, plant it; If you want to plant
Cleveland, plant it. AS. Mr.. Hurst
says, "plant what you darn please
I am of the opinion that Henderson
county farmers are capable of running
their own affairs, without importing
the gentleman from Gibson to pat us
on the shoulder with one hand, insist
ing that we pay ten bucks to join the
cooperative association and then stab
us in the back by grossly misrepre-
senting Half and Half cotton. Gen
tlemen it is your duty to lead and ad-
wise and not to coerce and scare. This
does not especially apply to Prof
Powers as he seems to want to do the
square thing. Yet, friend Powers, you
are caught in bad company and there
fore you are an accessory to the crime
Of trying to kill Half and Half cotton
You are holding the garments while
Stephens is being stoned. You are do
ing the plotting while Huff does thu
stoning. Friend Powers reread tn,
story of poor old Tray and profit
thereby.
At McCall,s School House some o.
these self-acclaimed apostles had ,
bunch Of half rotton cotton bolls. AL
so a lot Of fine fluffy bolls. The!
used the half rotton bolls as a sam
pie of Half and Half cotton. Uset
the big fluffy bools as sample O.
other cotton. They also told the au
dience that we had about 5000, 00(
bales Of rotton, unspinable cotton ant
that this was Half and Half. It seem,
that these fellows, in the eagernesl
and desperation to help the farmers
are almost in the same shape that tn,
old sister was that prayed for hub
by and the owl said "Who! Who'll
She answered, Lord, just anything
We have almost reached the stag,
that we are looked upon as bottle fee
babies, yet, they usually insist OF
Swimming the milk. They like to thinl
the cream would give us the collie
When we get little larger, part o
them insist on chewing our food, bu
usually swollow the substance anC
leave us the rind. When we grow Il
be grown up boys in the farmre fam
lily and refuse to be led around will
a ring in our nose, then some import
ed orator comes to scare and coerce.
Gentlemen, most Of us in the oil
Fifth district are about 81.
Friend Powers, when we grew tn
Ketchie Staple cotton, cotton was no
then being used so much for explo
sives. We failed to get the desire,
premium, then. The past year cottol
was little used for explosives. w
failed to get the premium then. | ad
NIT the premium is due on staple cot
ton, yet we are bound to admit that
is fact that we have failed to get thi
premium in the past. The Progressiv
Farmer, in an editorial in 1920, whe
as the question regarding planting
Half and Half cotton, said plant
if it makes the most net profit pc
acre." 1t further said that il was non
sense to talk about discarding it un
less you discard Is or 20 other shor
staple varieties with it and this list o
short staples included Trice, Cleve
land, King Simpking, Rowden, Tri
umph and other varieties that ran
to 1h staple. In an article thi
Spring, Mr.. Moss, one Of its editors
again advised the farmers to plant i,
If it made the most net profit. So her
you are with advice from this grand
fearless and noble farm paper Of tn
South. The paper has always bee
found battling for the farmers. Com
pare its advice with what you hay
been receiving and as friend Hurs
says, plant what you darn please"
We sold the leading Mill Compan,
Of La, several cars Of Half and Hall
Mr.. Wilson, the manager, who cam
up to See US said, "Crook, personally
I don't like Half and Half cotton.
have always fought it, yet we hav,
several Parishes in Louisiana that j
just simply makes much more none,
per acre than any other cotton. Tn
farmers want it. IL is to their interes
TO plant it and / am going to get i
for them"
Mr.. c. A. McLendon, of Georgia
who sold several thousand bushels o
Half and Half cotton seed for US, ais,
sells the Express seed, said in a per
sonal conversation to me, Crook,
find places that it makes the farmer
more than anything in the cotton line
| also find places il won't do at all.
This gentleman also sold Clevelan,
and man yother varieties. Mr.. jim
Hitchcock, from Bath Springs, Tenn.
who bought ia bushels Of our Hal
and Half seed, and came after them
said, Crook, the Half and Half is tn,
cotton for Us, yet a number Of on
farmers are a little nervous over tn
result Of the County Agents cam
paign and We ordered car of Express