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•i ..'i I ila probable rul-• • omiug season..inn tliar only t ime can '• • i!i im many opinions reader :n he binefitted. •! crop. What usually ■n now being realized i i'. the crop is two c._ it is not my cx-■; t si full oulpul from rc» weeks i..•. . u report «ns. in my opin- j i predict the next t«» he to lessen to the end J 1 that the crop will con- |• sion^liou exclusive of I ’■ -t. even at an average:' ' Ii a large part of t lie I i part ibin ever before.’ ‘.p in the crop now i -• on from one end of ihe other. 11. is the i a. i. rather than the wlni'h makes the crop.11 know ledge of the ‘ *' i* this wiison of ■ tie- prediction thatif ivnrjih],. renditions: -in ■dilir.g. boll weevil ;.1 he . 1.11 in crop of the ; •-ginning „» Ihe 1st a vmv moderate- b.veu million bales.niontns iii.in ever ueiore on .tnum ... ■ h.st year's shortage and the world's progress.For the Iasi thirty years up to January.Liverpool seems to have named the p.riee of cotton for the world. Since. i; i r. 11103. Wall Street and New “i Jeans, being nearer the cotton fields, learned the we mill of the r-rop nn.l seem to have taken thn swing, now hen; she goes, there she goes. What is the Blitter with cot ion ? Who ever heard sineo lln days of Reconstruction of thiiicen e.n.l fourteen cent cotton, sixty dollars per bale? What does it mean'.’ I' mentis s.111ply that one mote time in the history of the cotton planters of the South ronfiUtr.pt ion has gone beyond their production. This is confirmed, for it seems like thirteen and fourteen cents would have brought out the last hale in tin woods. It seems to mo. so far a- the I ..h, rop .1 cotton i- COB ' i la inters hold ihe balance of power and nre in a position to take the place ol Wall Street and New Orleans and mime Ihe price of cotton Tor some lime to come. You are up to a good proposition farmers, provided you are capable of managing it.I recommend selling your crop slowly down n. ten cents, then wait till you ran b,: better informed as to the size of the' uim.uh i jiiiiiii- «». vuiiiDon't gel frightened should Mr. Neil and his nssoeiflii; come out with a twelve million bale crop. They have interests to serve. Wall Street speculators deal in margins and swing from otic side to th-i ther. It matters hut little with them whether cotton is high or low. provide.! they see your crop is loo big to corner.j The world wants your cotton ind will I want it hail. They know your crop vil’ i not exceed last year's crop, and they know your last, year's crop stopped their I spindles ncnrly sixty days, and cottwi ‘ jumped from eight to thirteen and a half i cents. This experience i= rolt; ti—sli and unpleasant on their minds 10 be caught the second time, therefore they v. ill buy your crop more rapidly titan ever before.I admit this is early for ativ one to give out an opinion for the future upon a problem that so agba.es the world, ami I may lie wrong but want to warn you of the position I think you hold My interest cannot be a si''fish on as I i am on both sides—farmer and manufacturer—but mostly a farmer. 1 «h»re their 1 oss and gain. My predict ions may be misleading- do your own thinking.ASHLEY HORNE. j i Clayton. N. C., Sept. If, 1003. IJust now, when the princely dnn.it:-.- -. : Mr Andrew Func-gie have g.ve.n .. n stiluulus to library-building in Amere iu cities ii may well to urn our *y. .. the i.iher half. —the rural halt.— .f out : • a, for alt h ugh, ratileently, no me thought of the pul/.i : 1 hr.try as a possible rural institution, it has ii.w made an auspicious entry inn. tins new field, and is destined in play tin important part among the tw. t ticlh-Ccn-tury loros.—runil mail delivery. g ■ roads, rur.il telephones, etc.. — that m ik for the uplift of Amen, in country life.The neeii of the rural library must be nppan tit to all who are fumi'.nr wl. . country sobi ol methods. Reading is ti e magi - key to all our storehouses of iiu-d-lectual wealth; it is the basis of all e-iu eat ion. -The true university of the-* day-. says Carlyle. is » collection ..f book.-. And it is here, of all points in it- eunieuluin. that the country s-bo»l has tailed most grievously.—it has n .t taugiil the chili to read, to use book--.I ►«* not understand me m . ha ire that the rural acho-d is literally and avowedly lt;)•-. loyal to the first of the imranrt il tbr-v It’s, for it is not- B’ut only in the narrowest sense does it ten. h reading.—reading as the mere pronunciation o£ wordspupil li.es not K-I 1 . • ■ y :Aided by tin- proscribed erature, and godc-d by child of the townsman I in reading. I.arns me. o but actually learns to if 1: y..u know the count writer does, you know ■ this picture. You k:.. live out ,i |. ng ei-Ji.m.| ruling anyth.ng ■ f litei it nr mentous rehearsal of titter. Fold, hard inns it be rivs of f-Miig-n states eient battles, the ink-, change, arc- rep i t. I pertarice, but the tea that it is better t- f-fng than to teach history gir-o; - •: t - .!•«:».-(ir it he sees the duty, and fog.- . u-. .- - .- • (..reel the child to the beau n*. intcll.x--i ... p p..he t* shackled by th» lack of t.f ilui*-* f-.r ;- be !• isult; h work. Year after y- ir. there ;: the mu-' i. guid-d • •’ .Mm«* old drill in the r im'- old .*--.«!••; : r 1 • g T:.. - . .lt;-lassb.» are shldn-d, •• ■.• I th'-:- i- ;. • : I plvmental reading to ge the spici; variety.It is inevitable that • hildrem reared ir. such schools come tr. regard fevd.ng rot as a luxury, but a- drudgery, and js,?.- Up ilueed into t -ority r. Am potentially. if cot in the strictest r-u.o*. aii-1 th •'«-•:■ -■» !-!-.• v-rv.i.g illiterate. • I confess, says Thoreiu, i ..niiu-.i-l on 1'htrd Pas.- ...; - • ■the iwjclirr, thefor (hildren and fevbh- n -earns to »' 1 j. 1 — I,,.-.- » . ... 1tnm-h r. -. iniy I-» 1.1him w Ii ory school tli-lilen.T. r.f-..! him w ho lt;:ir;he o' • Side -,tand the iHi'• i.i'.iiw“ lt;f h•w chil l, '-n w},.tr.g he- I...ii eult; h that hi•fr Wi'ln: ;’ le-iri.ii g only -i‘ -i U-k t - * ir .- •- bey...id the ra»every-viheie are now bcgim■ ( kmi-t.-iklt; |•omr. d out. ten.■•lit tf - botin ! ip . •Knot in bis e.th - da 1-3 oflV»J.U’..r J; tu.... ii - ra the HtocJt KxWe hiVt herd .. :. m«t'- rs of ini■ •niliden■ - in the mere■:-r do*.-, no? s.-.r a love of r e :ter thruand itthe rnml• I •remedy ju-t Thhooi library haJ Newspa perArchiveby i|| Storiedtu- r-..—a 11 a u rv 4-^.^u^..- oo -i nnn n„ -t n ~ i~ u i 10
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The Farmer And Mechanic
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Tue, Sep 22, 1903
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