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II im'i in ag-bnM ih.» 0111 of a -or] if wf reali?- .1 tnat hi- pas-t... -1 li.-fn, to In 11 •.»t i • • 11 I fertilizing a? much . - any pan -hoi imp in the supply o' I ho farm. Wo know of lull pastures • Mn* »nrM, ml it i Hint bnve been unbroken for generat ions . 11 i'm now in t lie hands and which instead of running oul huv. hovi' . 11111 ovor• 11 to iniToaM-.l in tin r capacity in feed stocl: i- il . null! ' ni kn i , Th pastures, towrvrr, have had npr.u 1 with th, rough i iihiv.ition in grow-ng a rou'iiliwuhl.' mini hop of nvi s;. tabh s m ii| land wit horn irrigate*-In ill- very dry summer oi i:•lt;•! the comparison ivns made on both irrigate I .••ml unirrisnti'i! upland. la I'1- mulehins IDurr i lover ..Inn if the !t*rr 1= prorn-r'y h 11'! 1 ■ I. lt;m land, wall manure 1lie will Ci ;:iin-i• e and l«aTclt;* rap'-'1 ffr.'Wi!with almost, nry kind of handling, pn viilwl ilie s.. 1 re covered into the *1 Bariev wid make an enorrnou growthizing th- niIn the that t It.uied. m-i rn topar* Hoseell Tti nut iiiiieil mi Thtnl I amm give tw•t three cutting- if the•rn mm triAshley Horne on the Cotton Situation. Rural School Libraries i1 di'dro to answer 1 pun imii'i. front larrn . ;:.g iny views relative : I il- probable ml• ••mill, season.t-in t)iH only tiaie can a, 'iinnt; many opinion:-, reader tn he I . nefit I ad. •! crop. Whit usually s now being realized i 1-. the crop is two | ' Jt is not my ex-1 a full output from• • i.ree weeks lilt,-.iep'JI't was. in i.iy opin-preilu t the next to Into lessen tn the end t hat lb- crop ill nm-r-r. ^tioii excltisivn ol ' -t even at uu average it- h ;i large part of I Ini' part th in ever before •at in the crop now i -• -in frt.ru one cud oft- th- other, [t is flic1 a- ■ i it li-r t ban the * . 1 li la.i k«-s 1 lie r|..|). ti know ledge of t be a* this season of tr- He- | reliction that • f . vorjit. comlit ions •ddi'g. bull weevil ;.’ h. . -ti in i -t op of 1 heI'- ga nitiff on (he l-iI- i UM'v i.-indi rale '- '•■■u million baits.Whal is tin- worlds consumption? N'nt less tbit ti eleven and a half million hales, and '-.ill be more lor the next twelve months than ever before on account of our last year's short#ge and the world s progress.For the last thirty ye irs up to January. 1 !.-0S. Liverpool seem- to have named the price uf cotton for the world. Since ai u.try. 1H03. Wall Street and New Or I. uns. being nearer the cotton fields, learned the weight of th. crop and s. -m to have taken tin- -wing, now her,: she goes, then- she goes. What the matter v.ith cotton? Who ever heard since tin days ..f Itecon-tru. : ion of ihiiici-n c.ti.l fourteen eeiiT cot lor,, sixty dollars p.-r bale? Whal dot it mean ' It means simply that one more time in the history lt;•:' the cotton planter' of the South consumption Inn gone l.-y..nri their ! p. i... I net ioii . This is confirmed. for it seems lik. thirteen and fourf.it cents would have brought out the last bale in th. v.oods. It seems to inc. so far a- the PL -cnt rnp of coi Io,i is corcerned. the farmers hold the balance of power and are in a position to fake the place of Wall b-tr.et and New Orleans and name I'M price of cotton r-*r some time to , ,inii- Vein sr- up to a good proj .«ition, farmers, provided you are capable ofmanaging it.I recommend selling your crop slr-wlv down t.. te„ cents, then wait till you ran I be belter informed as to tile size of thecrop. Would not hurry my crop op. th market aft. it gels under ton cents, as I see it now, you arc in a posit ton tlt; control the profits of your own labor. Dun t get frightened should 111 Ne-'i . i. ! hi., i «nM inilt;-•; cnnic out vvitb a tw-lve million bale crop. They have intirist-lo rcrvc Wall Street spcoulamis deal t margins and swing from on.- -id.- to th-i tiler. D matt-r* but lifle with ihem whclllcr cotton is high or low. provide,! they see your crop is loo big lo corner.The world wants your cotton tnd v. . «t. it :t li.ul. They know your crop will | not exreed last year’s crop, u-i ! the.-.k::. v your List y.-ur'- rro;. -topp. i th* t I spindles nearly sixty days, ar- ' eott'in ] jlimped from eight t. thirt-en ire! a halt cent' This experience i= to., ti—sli a•• unpleasant on tht r minds to , caught the second tine, therefor, they v. ill bn. your rep more rapidly than ever before.1 admit th - is early for auv one to give out an opinion for the future upon I. problem that so ag'tacc* the world, ami I may be wr-.ng but want t-. w ru you of (he position I think you holl My interest c.-.nnot be n se'ft.h ni'» 1 am on both sides farmer and manufacturer- but mostly a farmer, t share their toss and gain. My predictions may be misleading- do your own thinking.ASHLEY HORNE.. Clayton. N. C . Sept. 1!». 19fl3.Mr Clar.-iic.' 11. Poe, r.t K ileigh. edit.,, of The PI-.-KI-1 ive Fatuii-r, has the P lowing .ti the September lie view of lb-view a;Just now. when the princely donate.- -• : Mr Andrew 11-gi* lt.iv- g.viei i.e.-stimulus to iibr.iiy-lmilditiK in Ain*;.- -.n cities ii may be well to urn ..ut Ky. _the other half. —the rural hull, 1 . mpopulati-.il, £ot ahln-ugh. until .it: u- rlt; tecntly. tn. cm- 'nought of the pub!,.- !I i it- as a p .sstbe* rural Inaltiut i it ha- nw m- le Jin auspicious . mry inn th - fa w field, and is destined t. pi y -important put ng the tw. •ulh-ceiitury lure:-s.—rural ut-.-l delivery. g • r-.a is. runl tel. phones, lt;-t-.. tliat mtk-for the uj-I ft .,! A-iii-ri, hi - uuutryThe nee*! of the rural library u.u.-i b-nppir.nl to all who are familiar wl.country sch el n:ethlt; Reading is ti -tiiHgri.- key to .11 --t.il storehouse.-: of ii .-!• lecfual wealth it I- the basis of ill edu .-ation. The tine university of th.--. days. -ays ('arlyb. ia a collection 1 ok-. And it is here, of all t inis b it- lt;un ii ulunt. that the eountiy s-hr« . has tailed most grievously.—it has n ’taUgi'L the eh I to read. to i. -e book-I’ not understand me to I’nrr that th-rural school is literally and avowedly d -loyal to the first of the immnrt il 'hr' lt‘s. for it is not- But- only t the i, r-lowe't sens., does jt ten. h reading, -real ng as the mere juouuucia'.iyn ut wordsan.ith.The 1.1 ;:tr. I - If Too’.. - apupil does no- g-t l!-.- • pAided by tie p:• .rit.i I eratiire. ar.d ge.rird by ' child -f the townsman barns t.or. I-.t hek-al.a i • • -iig I. n.-: n but actually learns t-Jt VU ktv-w the ' writer dor-s. you kc . rh . p-.. i lire Vlive out , 1. ti? s.-!,. ing u.-iyth t a- . f I • m- .' a.- i .-h- at -.11 tor. ('old. hard rigs of f •. ■ iyn si •■ lent battles the rul n t t-•• -. h.T.ge at. I.e.: !. I a- n. ••’; ' ■ ■ • : that it is be''er to f. Ifns than to teach history .. g Or i: he sees the duty, and , r.-.-t the child To ih» bean- lt;*-h*» .* sh-t k.i-d by the ii k f, su« 'u work. Year i’.er • r. *i,» -am.. ..Jd drill in the cant- ol! r-• dassb-e are Ktu t..-d .--.-I th -. r plem'-ntal rlt;.ding lo g e t be varidv.It is inevitable tint • hadron u -h schools (mm to regard re as . luxury, but r.- rlru igery. an itfally, if pot in the • - It illiterate. I confess, says^1 NewspThe Farmer And Mechanic, September 22,
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