The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-12-21
LONGER LINT FOR
LARGER PROFITS
North Georgia Farmers Suffer
From Introduction OF Infer
i0r Cotton Varieties
Movement To Restore Regions Reputa-
ton For Cotton Fiber OF Superior
Length and Strength Is
Now On
BY c. A. WHITTLE

ton meant staple of an inch and bet
ter silky and strong a cotton with a
worldwide reputation. Buyers were
eager to get it-so eager that they were
willing to pay premium for it.
But change has come about. Buy
ers are finding it difficult to get old
time North Georgia cotton. They must
have lint of good length, but they are
not able TO find much of it in North
Georgia. Consequently the buyers are
going to Arkansas to get staple that
Norta Georgia can grow, has grown and
ought to be growing.
Give us the length" say the miIlers,
and we will pay more for the North
Georgia cotton than for cotton of sim
liar length grown anywhere else"
VIII North Georgia farmers take up
their offer?
When North Georgia farmers under
stand what must be done, it is believed
they will be eager to join in united
effort to restore to North Georgia the
reputation which it has been losing.
Why have North Georgia cottons been
losing their length of staple? 1t is be-
cause many different and inferior
strains of cotton have been brought in
to the territory. These strains have
mixed with the old line varieties to
produce mongrel cotton that can no
longer yield the superior staple
Realizing the economic loss that this
part of the south is suffering as a con-
sequence of this misfortune, campaign
mas been inaugurated to help the farm
er get seed of varieties that will bring
NORTH Georgia back unto its own. In
this campaign cotton buyers, bankers,
the agricultural college with it's county
agents, cotton mill men and leading
farmers are joining.
To get right down to practical things.
the Atlanta Commercial exchange in At
lanta has undertaken without expense
for its service, to carry on a campaign
to interest bankers and business men in
each town to assist the farmer to pur-
chase seed by extending loans or
credit
In order that the movement toward
better types of cotton may not go amiss,
the cotton buyers, after consulting agri-
cultural authorities, cotton mill men and
farmers, have listed four leading va
rleties of cotton: Cleveland (any good
strain), College No. 1, Acala and Row.
den. All these varieties have ranked
at the top for quantity of yield, desir-
able length of lint and adaptation TO
boil weevil conditions in North Georgia.
In furtherance of its plans, the ex-
change has undertaken to meet the
demand for seed of these varieties.
They have enlisted the aid of the banks
and the Cotton Storage Finance Cor
poration, of Atlanta. The banks are to
finance the purchase of seed for their
respective regions The Cotton STORAGE
Finance Corporation offers free storage
space for accommodating the distribu-
ton of seed from the Atlanta headQuar-
ters.
NJ important part of the campaign
is to get all the farmers of com
munity to use only one variety of cot,
ton. If this is done, the seed will re,
main pure and the exchange will be in
position to market these pure seed tC
advantage next year and subsequent
years. If the farmers so desire.
Farmers who wish to get seed of the
varieties mentioned may take the mat
ter up with their county agent, or local
banker and arrange for a cooperative
order of seed which the Atlanta Com
mercial exchange offers to fill without
cost for the service rendered.
What assurance has the farmer that
he will get a better price for his cotton
If he grows the better staple?
The best assurance is the record OF
the prices received each day on the
markets, Take the governments repor,
of cotton sales in Georgia November
On the Atlanta market strict middling
of to 1 1I16 inch brought 26 cents
strict middling inch brought % 3/S
cents, us to 4 inch "a cents, 3/4 inch
% 3I4 cents.
When cotton of the shorter grade
goes on the market in North Georgia
it comes in c&ntact with Chinese and
India cotton, cotton that is raised by
cody labor, the LOWEST paid labor in
the world.
A recent trade report showed that
while longer staples of cotton Wet NeGsl-
ing at rs Up to &c 1i2 cents, Chi. e
cotton was selling at Is 1/2 to % W
cents and India cotton at II 1i2 cents
Such records are the surest evidence
ahat growing the longer staple pays