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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORD ER.
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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Arthur Lucas, President; Lovelace Eve, Secretary;
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SAFETY FIRST.
One of the soundest pieces of advice yet given to the
■cotton growers of the South on the cotton situation is
contained in a letter just sent out to farmers and business
men of the cotton growing territory by Bradford Knapp,
Chief of Extension Work in the South, under the depart
ment of agriculture. This letter appeals to the senses of
self-protection and self-interest that lie in every man
lo reduce his acreage this year, and points out the peril
in not doing it. It is one of the strongest editorials on
the subject that has yet come from any pen, and is re
produced here, in the hope that it may be of assistance in
solving this question so vital at this time to the welfare
of every interest of the South. The letter follows:
“The Department is just issuing a bulletin which I
have (prepared for the purpose of putting the present
situation up to the farmers and business men. It is en
titled. “SAFE FARMING IN THE SOUTHERN STATES
IN 7319.” Ask your county agent for a copy. « .
“The present situation is the MOST DANGEROUS
which the cotton states have faced in recent years. You
have had four years of comparative prosperity, partly
because of four SHORT CROPS of cotton with resultant
GOOD PRICES.and partly because you produced so much
of your own FOOD AND FEED. During the last four
years there have been short crops in Texas mainly due
to drought. During the years 1911, 1912, 1913 and
1914 the Texas crop averaged 4,418,250 bales, while dur
ing 1915,1916,1917 and 1918 it averaged 3,164,500 bales
or 1,253,750 bales less per annum. TEXAS HAS HAD
GOOD RAINS THIS WINTER. From 1911 to 1914, in
clusive, Oklahoma averaged 1,036,250 bales per annum.
From 1915 to 1918, inclusive, the average was only 842,-
250 bales or 294,000 bales less per annum, mainly due
to drought. OKLAHOMA HAS HAD SPLENDID RAINS
THIS WINTER. A big crop in Texas and Oklahoma has
always meant a big crop in the whole country. THINK
THAT OVER before you decide to increase your acreage
in cotton.
“Will the mills of Northern France and Belgium be
restored to full working capacity at once? Certainly not!
Will the poor people of Europe seek food or cotton first?
Food, of course! People can and will wear patched
■clothing and sleep without pillow cases and sheets if
■need be, but the hungry stomach must be fed. THINK
ABOUT THAT.
“The last four years have been a period of gradually
increasing prices. Farmers and buisness men have
profited out of this constant increase. Cotton has just
about kept pace with other things. A pound or an acre
of it would buy about the same quantity of other com
modities in 1918 at 30 cents a pound as it did in 1914 at
12 cents a pound. But during this time the farmers
had the advantage of purchasing supplies in the spring
and summer at one level of prices and then selling cot
ton in the fall at the top price of the year and paying
the debt contracted at the lower prices. BE ON YOUR
GUARD NOW, for when (prices begin to settle down the
situation become more difficult. We may be in the posi
tion of making a crop of cotton with high-priced sup
plies and settling our debts out of cotton at a lower.
Especially will this be true if we produce a very LARGE
CROP and thereby do all in our power to LOWER the
market price of cotton. Has not a LARGE CROP always
meant LOWER PRICES? THINK THAT OVER.
"What about acreage? Let us look at the acreage
figures in the bulletin. The total for 1918 was 35,890.-
000. Oklahoma had more acres planted in 1918 than in
either 1911, 1913 or 1914. Texas had more acres in
1918 than in 1911 and only about 700,000 acres less than
1914. The years 1911.1913 and 1914 were GOODYEARS
with BIG CROPS and generally LOW PRICES. With On
ly 150,000 acres more in the whole country in 1911 than
■we had in the whole country in 1918, we produced 15.-
693,000 bales and the farm price December 1,1911. averag
ed 8.8 cents per pound. In 1913 we had 37,089,000 acres
acii produced 14,156.000 bales, and the farm price averag
ed 12.2 cents per pound December 1, 1913. In 1914 we
had 36,832,000 acres, or only 942,000 acres more than in
1918, and yet the production was 16,135.000 bales and
the farm jtrice December 1, 1914 was 6.8 cents iper pound
on the average, due in part, no doubt, to the war in
Europe. THINK THIS OVER.
With less acres than last year and a good season
we can easily make a very large crop, especially with
good production in Texas and Oklahoma. In 1912 with
j A VERSE A DAY. j
THE DAY OF THE MOTOR TRUCK.
WHEN the pink primordial pride and joy
Os our antediluvian hoi polloi
Had icthyosaurian steak to tote
He dragged it along on an old stone boat:
Or when his congenial mate and he
Would lug their luggage along the lea
Or down to a gloomy and glacial shore.
They found their burden considerable chore.
Oh, tough was their lot and said their luck.
For they had no Gazimpikus motor truck.
When Hannibal scampered across an Alp
The rollicking Romans hollered "halp!”
For they had been told that it couldn't be done
And Hannibal fooled them, the son-of-a-gun'
Some stunt for those Carthaginian geeks
Was peregrinating across the peaks
For all of their baggage rode all the way
Upon their cervical vertebrae
And into the ruck poor Carthage snuck
For she had no Galumpical motor truck.
And tres unfortunate, too, the fate
Os Alexander, the so-called great.
Os Kid Vespasian, Brian Boru,
Napoleon Bone and Stonewall, too,
Copernicus, Newton and Peter and Paul,
S'olomom Satan, Salome and Saul,
They limped along in their feeble way
Without the aid of the benzine shay,
While you and I have superlative luck —
We have the Gazootical motor truck.
Then hail to the cam and the cog and wheel,
The brass and copper, the wood and steel!
And hail the dominant speed and style.
And super service of gas and ile!
Vo more need the proletariat pine
That the load must lean on the sagging spine,
For now it can lope o’er the loamy lea
On a Rackard, Fackard, Fierce, or a Moonstone T;
Gosh a’nughty, we’re all in luck;
We have the Gazzamikus motor truck.
—J. P. McEvoy, in the Chicago Tribune.
only 34,283,000 acres we made 13,703,000 bales of cotton.
With a good season ahead of us, would you increase
the acreage?
“Which would you rather do, prouuce more cutton
and take a less price far it after working a larger num
ber of acres at greater expense, or limit your production
to a smaller number of acres, better tended, permitting
the full production of your food and feed and a better
chance for a good price?
“IT IS ABSOLUTE FOLLY to upset the present pros
perity of the cotton states by PLANTING A LARGE
ACREAGE which can only mean a LARGE CROP and a
LOWER PRICE, I hear rumors of farmers selling their
livestock to put their land all in cotton. Such action is
inviting disaster. If farmers, landlords, merchants and
bankers combine to pull the house down upon their own
heads by producing a large crop of cotton, they should
have the courage to make no appeal to the rest of the
world for help if their own action leads them into dis
tress.
“But remember that there is a GOOD WOY Look in
the bulletin. FOOD PLUS COTTON EQUALS PROS
PERITY'. Full production of the FOOD for our people
and the FEED for our growing livestock industry in the
South should be the first and most important considera
tion. SAFE FARMING demands caution this time. Sup
ply your own needs first as a sound measure of pro
tection, then hold your cotton acreage down to a mod
erate figure, less than in 1918, in order that we may safe
guard the production and not destroy our prosperity by
deliberately over-producing. IT IS UP TO THE SOUTH
TO PLAY A SAFE GAME. SAFETY FIRST DEMANDS
THAT EVERY' COTTON FARMER, BIG AND LITTLE,
SHALL CO-OPERATE IN HOLDING DOWN THE COT
TON ACREAGE”
i THE STATE PRESS. j
Diversify! Diversify!
The fact that about sixty per cent of the 1918 cotton
crop is now in the hands of the farmers is conclusive
evidence that they have raised too much cotton for our
needs at home. If the embargo on the exportation of cot
ton is lifted outside demand will in all probability run
the price up at least to a figure that is reasonable. The
moral is diversification. A greater diversification than
ever before is urged for 1919. —The Fitzgerald Herald.
Thomasrifle Gets Ready.
It’s easy enough for a farmer to sell a bale of cotton
anywhere at what is termed the market minus a little
jig off that the local buyer will take if he gets the
chance but a man to sell a bushel of potatoes, or a gal
lon o’ syrup or a pen of chickens will have to peddle
them from house to house in order to find a market.
Thomasville will have one for all fruits and vegetables
this year.—Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Not Slamming the “Girls.”
Those silly, absurd suffragettes who burned Presi
dent Wilson’s effigy in front of the White. Hoiise Sun
day were disgraces to their sex. The great pity is that
two silly, Southern girls were, in the bunch of mischief
doers.—Valdosta Times.
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