The progressive farmer and the cotton plant. [volume], April 11, 1905, Page 5, Image 5

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Tuesday, April 11, 1905.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.
The Size of This Year's Crop Will
Determine the Price.
The Government on Tuesday is
sued its final estimate of the size of
the cotton crop of 1004, as indicated
lv the pinners' report covering the
nnniiuT operations up to March 13th.
This will be the last report.' The
crop is put at 13,5S4,457. As the cot
ton speculators, cotton manufactur
or and cotton farmers have been
convinced for weeks that these would
It about the final figures, the report
will have but little effect on the mar
lo t. As the world will need twelve
million hales this year, there will be
jihout one and a half to two million
hnl.'f to carry over until the next
season. There is no guess work about
this, and it shows the necessity of
cutting down the acreage this year.
If another such crop were produced
it would mako a surplus approaching
four million bales to start out with
this fall. This would send the price
ilown to four or five cents, and the
fanners of the South would be almost
ruined. But a reduction of 25 per
cent m acreage would foreshadow a
ten million bale crop. This with the
amount carried over from last year's
crop would about meet the world's
demand. And what the world needs
and must have, it is willing to pay
for. It would be foolish in the farm
ers to raise more cotton than is need
ed. To this end the cotton growers'
association, the press of the South,
and all other influences are bending
their efforts to induce the farmers to
plant less cotton and more food
stuffs. Kight now is the critical pe
riod. Planting has begun in the far
South and will soon be under way all
over the cotton belt. The govern
ment ajrents will soon be sendiiTg in
their reports, and by the middle of
May the world will know very- nearly
the number of acres planted and can
calculate pretty closely the- number
of bales that will be raised this year.
This will be the leading factor from
now on in fixing tJm i -rt?-
in? iitimrier ot bales raised last year
will now take a back seat. The size
of the crop this year will determine
the price. Newton Enterprise.
roads; and the total
victs thus employed during the year
was 825.
m no more than a dozen
counties of the State, is this convict
work on the public roads done eco
nomically and satisfactorially. The
best system probably exists in Meck
lenburg Countv. xeh
hundred convicts, in two separate
camps, are worked constantly on the
public roads. . The average cost there
of feeding, clothing and guarding
the convicts and nrovidincr si pa
quarters, medical attetnion and all
other necessaries, avai-ap-aa twntTT.
three cents per day per convict. These
valuable results are obtained through
intelligent management nnn Vmir oca-
like methods'.
So far as we are ablft t.n determine
the good roads question in North
Carolina, is more alivn than pvpt he-
fore, and the Geological Snrvev fa
constantly receiving requests from
all sections of the State, for advife.
and practical assistance in public
road improvement. Our good roads
engineer, Mr. W. L. Scoon. snenda
the greater part of his time in visit
ing the different counties of the
State to assist the countv authorities
in the practical Questions of road
improvement ; and this is done with
out cost to the county for his ser
vices.
The North Carolina Good "Ron da
Association has also recentlv done
some effective educational work for
good roads; and the formation of
county organizations in most of the
counties, under the creneral State As
sociation, has stimulated the move
ment in a large degree, and the indi
cations are that the good roads move
ment will continue its steadv and
gradual growth during the present
year.
But Here is a Better Story.
(Continued from Page 1.)
The Public Road Question in North
Carolina.
The following interesting facts are
the result of an investigation recent
ly made by the North Carolina Geo
logical Survey as to the public roads
logical Survey as to the public roads'
conditions in the State:
All but two or three of the coun
ties in North Carolina are still work
ing the public roads under what is
known as the "Old State Law," which
requires all male citizens between the
aires of eighteen and forty-five years
to work the public roads on an av
erage of six days during each year,
or pay an amount of money sufficient
to provide a substitute for doing this
work;. Forty-five of these counties,
in addition to bavincr this "Old State
Lawj" have a nrovision for a special
roaA tax, which is on an average for
Stale sixteen and one-half cents on
the $100 property valuation and
yhe total amount of money spent
n the public roads during the past
year was $401,382. including the
money spent for permanent roads,
rer-airing. crrading and all other pur
boses. This amount seems surpris
ingly large when we consider the
wretched condition of some of the
roads in the State. However, one
ountv alone Qieeklenburcr) SDent
More than S45.000: and Guilford
unty recently authorized an issue
$300,000 in bonds for road build
g and is spending several thou
nds of it each venr.
Thirty-six counties in the State are
bmg convicts in working the public
.tb of ftmO.OGO. or $15,000,
which exceeds the entire amount ex
pended in exterminating the ticKs in
those counties. In other woras, any
"stock law" county in North Caro
lina now under quarantine can be
a . 1 1
freed of ticks, and as a result, ex
empted from Federal quarantine re
strictions, for less money than is now
lost each year solely becaus-3 ot tne
rresence of the ticks.
Attention is also mrectea in figure
o ; xtrVi; tho heaw dark lino shows
JL i4 es
the Federal quarantine line across
North Carolina which will be en
forced during 1905, while to the right
the counties of Surry, x aamn, -o.ie.v-ander,
Iredell, Davie, Rowan, Cabar
rus and Mecklenburg are snown.
The important point here is that
the eastern borders of these counties
(except Alexander and ireaeiij
now form a provisional quarantine
line adopted by the' State and Fed
eral authorities for the purpose of
the reinfection of those
w a i vi . r- - . i .
counties lying between tne xwo
It is in these counties that we are
prosecuting the work of tick extermi
nation, and it is evident thi3 work
cannot be successful unless we pre
vent tho introduction into them of
ticks from farther southland east,
hence the necessity of rigidly enforc
ing this provisional or second niar
antine line. It should be further
understood that this second-quaran
tine line along these eastern county
lines offers a double protection to
those counties entirely free of ticks
and above Federal quarantine line;
for to enter that territory tick-infested
cattle must cross both lines
and the whole of the intervening ter
ritory in which State inspectors are
constantly at work.
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Veterinarian North Carolina De
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