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v, II mimat* -»iii■ n-t th.* ii . i i.-t ifi’ins to bp that -hoi tag in i ho supply dv. r fiip world, .-M i it is •■•i now in tho hands have endeavored to •i n -e it would ”.ot keepranof a • oa if Vv i realize.) tnat 1 he pas-ii,r.' n *1 ilt; rtilizing as much . - any pari o’ the farm. We know of hill pastures that have been unbroken for gen--ration' and which instead of running out have hut a - • i in tlx ir capacity to feed stock. These pastures, however, have had anj «1 I t .1 Will 1 UOM Uj,,! * I . I . 1 ii I I 'IJI 1 VI ^ • ' * . |ng ,i considerable numb*t of piru'-n h vegetables on upland without irrigation, t In the very dry summer of 3 !■*«'»! the v comparison was made on both irrigated v and unirrigated upland. I.i P‘2 mulching J i 'not i nued on Third I’litre. •»Ashley Horne on the Cotton Situationor —I ile-i re to answer :■ 'pon-leuee from farm i.iag my views relative erop an.I n- probable ml-1 hi • ominy season.1 1 a :n t hat only t ijne can ' aeiiimig in.my opinion.:1 reader to he bene tit ted.•» trop. Wh.it usuallys now being realized a i-e the crop is twoIt. is not my exit full output fromt‘1 three weeks late.1 i eport w as. in my opin-i prediet the next to he aue to lessen to the end 1 hat the crop .\ ill con-' c ir.yl x.ii exclusive of • even at an average d''h a large part of the r part thin ever before. ‘ I' tu.n ni the crop now 1 lt;on from one end of I ihe other. It is the ' 1 a' . in lx-r t han t he ■ who Ii makes the erop. ’'lt;• know I.•dee of the ' i a* this season of tin- prediction that ofavor;ih|,. eomlitions : -heililii )* |„,|| weevil ..' he ■ utt 111 erop of the ; •■•ginning on the 1st he a vi rv modern I e ' ''h en IlnlllOll hah s.What i' the world's consumption? Not less than eleven and a half million bales, and will be more for the next twelve months than ever before on account of our last year's shortage rind the world's progress.For the lust thirty years up to January. I', of*. Liverpool seems to have named the price of cotton for the world. .Since ai.uary. 1903, Wall Street and New lt;r leans, being nearcr the cotton fields, learned the weight of the crop and s ni to have taken the swing, now '•hero she goes, there she goes. What i- the matter with cotton? Who ever heard since tlx days of Reconstruction ot ihnteen and fourteen eent cotton, sixty dollars per hale? What does it mean? It means simply that one more tinx- in the history of the cotton planters of the South consumption has gone beyond their produet ion. This is entifirmrd. for it seems like thirteen and fourteen ecu is would have brought out the last bale in tin woods. Ii seems to me. so far as the present ■•rop of cotton i' concerned, the farmers hold the balance of power ami are in m posit ion to take the place ot Wall street and New Orleans and name price of cotton for some time to come. Yon :-r* up to a good proportion, farmers, provided you are capable ofmanaging it.I recommend selling your crop slowly town '•• cents, the,, wait till you ran he better informed as to the size of the*crop. Would not hurry my crop on th market after ii gets under ten cents. As I see it now, you are in a position to control the profit- of your own labor. Don't get frightened hnuhl Mr. Neil an. 1 hi.' as-ociatvs come out with a twelve million hale crop. They have interests to serve. Wall Street speculator deal in margins and suing from one side to th lt;fiver. H matters but lido with them whether cotton is high or low. provided they see your crop is too big to corner.The world wants your cotton and will want it had. They know your erop will not exceed last year's crop, an-l they know your last year's crop stopped then spindles nearly sixty day-, at 1 cotton jumped from eight to thirteen and a half cents. This experience is too fi—sii ami unpleasant on their minds to i.,lt;* eaught the second time, therefore they will buy your rop more rapidly than ever before.I admit this ilt; early for anv one to give out an opinion for the future upon a problem that so ng'talt;r« the world, and I may he wrong but want to warn you of the position T think you hold. My inlt; rest cannot be a selfish one as I nm on both sides—farmer and manufacturer—hut mostly a farmer. ( =hnr-' their loss and cain. My predictions may be misleiding. do your own thinking.ASHI.EY HORNE.Clayton. N. C., Sept. 19, 1903. |
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The Farmer And Mechanic
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Tue, Sep 22, 1903
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