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THE PROGRESSIVIman in the country could only be made by some means to settle in the country in the place of going to town —then what a great future the South would have!—Southern Cultivator.Has the South Reached the Limit in Cotton Productions?Mr. Ashley Horne, a citizen of Clayton, N. C., was in Washington the other day and the papers interviewed him on conditions in the South, and one thing, at least, which he said is worthy of thought. It was: “At best, there-~will not be more than three-fourths of a crop in North Carolina, and the same conditions prevail in the other Southern States. The time for big cotton crops in the South is at an end, and in my opinion it will be a rare thing if the Soi^th ever produces more than a 11,000,000 bale crop. Scarcity of labor is responsible for this condition, which is more emphasized this year than ever before. I think the smallness of the crop will result in good prices being obtained throughout the season.” There is a good deal in what Mr. Horne says. The scarcity of labor is becoming a big question in the South. Two well-to-do farmers of Union County were talking the other day. “What shall we do with our farms?” said one. “It i9 getting so that I can’t get labor at all, and, of course, a man can’t run a large farm and do the work himself.”“I see nothing that we can do,” replied the other, “except to turn our attention to growing such things as we can make with machinery. Cotton is not one of those products. It takes nearly a year to put a crop of cotton on the market, and it requires hand labor all the time.”Out in Kansas farmers are fighting each other, almost, in their efforts to get harvest hands at $3 per day, with three meals and two lunches thrown in. But only dollar wheat, and that made in great quantities, can pay any such prices. Certainly cotton at anything like the present and past prices cannot. With the scarcity of labor and the inability to use machinery, it does look now that there is some reason in Mr. Horne’s contention that the South will not increase her cotton crop, at least until the price goes high enough to enable the grower to pay prices fancy enough to induce the negro population to go back to the farms. Meanwhile, the small farmer who has a large family of healthy, smart and bright children to help him, will continue to have a good thing in cotton.—Monroe Journal.SUICIDE PREVENTED.The startling announcement that a preventive of suicide had been discovered will interest man. A run down system, or despondency invariably precede suicide, and something has been found that will prevent that condition which makes suicide likely. At the first thought of self-destruc-
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The Progressive Farmer
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Tue, Aug 04, 1903
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