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PAGE TWO Put Cotton in Its Pi ( By E. E. Miller. Editor Southern | ers. to bi Agriculturist.) 1 r?taion Down in Georgia lives a farmer an<1 whose main business is dairying. Hisi Ic is laid out for a dairy farm with' Of coi first attention to pastures and feed 1 rule for crops. His largest item of income take in is what he receives for milk and but-, 'aid dow ter. Vet n?* is the most successful cot- 'n Centr ton grower of his neighborhood. His ed distri cotton is planted in good land always, giving ( land well fertilized, as many cotton two-thin fields are. He grows long-staple cot- finding I ton and gets much more than average os ?f the prices. Because his land has been it possil: made retentive of moisture and rich age at it in plant food by the application dent dec of manure, ho can grow long-staple' eonilng cotton succesfully. getting more ments it pounds or it to the acre than the exceptioi (armor without m??rure will set of cf,tton d tht- short-staple varieties. lie sows a Otuble tt winter cover crop after his cotton, tcj-tliir< t!:;:s keeping up his soil's supply of 'an<1 t(> i nitrogen and of vecetable matter anrl farmer 1 getting a crop of feed off the land he- er< ^ it li tween the cotton crop and the next 'l<1 must su: mer crop. 01 ^Is ' Tliis man has found the proper |''^s '10 place for cotton in a system of stock a ' n u' , the banc farming. ) tion. ('in Other farmers in groat and increas- , ing numbers are finding it. Reports ty,0 of co-operative livestock associations when in Missisippi, of regular livestock (ifj jijs c( sales day at Alabama county towns. ^ cujtj of new herds of purebred hogs In ( ni Iai 1 West Tennessee are all reports from ^ jg j)ast] farnmrs who are putting cotton in j.llC0 its own rightful place. ; j, It is a very mistaken idea to think revenue that when a cotton farmer begins to livestock plant more corn and make pastures, ning]c or to build new barns and soils, to get the rotto more and better livestock, he quits around t growing cotton, or even reduces his ter. production of cotton. A; a rule, he Some does not. Now and th?*n. of course, this js r may be found a man w ho. in the re- to j,, volt from the rule ol ,1 too big cot- used to r ton rep. goes to the extreme of grow- suited to irg none at ail. hut such men are the \ fmu exception, and they usually come js made back to rotton. The livestosk farm sarllv hi er nearly always reduces his cotton farther i acreage actually as well as relative- fourth, t ly. This is usually the very thine he 'acreage, reeds to clo. Still, the improvement age desi v grass and legumes and live-1 payment gto -k sion work in his land enable. children h'rn in a little while to keep tip pro Very fev duetioti while cutting clown acreage, par.ctivel Increased production per acre is the: this lent only thing outside of the perfection . most of of the long expected hut yet unreal!-, old autoc zed rotton picket, thai will bring thrown. . do n to any appreciable extent and tention 1 for any term of years either the cost au,i the or producine cotton or its market ,iock w pri< e. Indeed, without an increase hushandt in the average acre-production it is ern soils doubtful if prices can he held down a mistak t t b-vels of the last two or three railed years. date he Th cleveolpment of stork husband- stock sec i". t:i tiie rotton rountry in the last Southern f w years has been marvelous. So has ton. It is the inri case in the production of feed estimate cr ip-i t >r tins livestock. It must not ton nop 1 supposed, however, that this de- it is pro vTipnient has as yet brought about that "tin any general reduction of the cotton 'h it the aire Following four big plantings away fro I'll t<? 1M4, inclusive, there was a or to fim re.i tionaty reduction of acreage. lot' f'ontra th- reduction was smaller than is js not .a pet ?ra'ly i opposed. Only three pre-i niiin wp - plantings in ;,H the South's his- |?.s- of |j t had been larger than was that tj1(. man of IMC, and the 1 9 18 acreage was VYIe n he evn greater than that of IMC. The its e?|iiiv com' ined cotton acreage of the three feeds th > ', s, IMC, lb 17, lb 18. was about move.- n o- -c'ltli greater than the enmhin- f.rnt In ed a?";eage of the three, years. lb"C dairyina l' i>7. lff'8. The production. due move 'I 1 a' /e'y ti unfavorable weather con- The coll ditions and labor scarcity, was al- become most one-tenth less. crop hi ir m p;isy enou-'ii io see irom inese smres <>i fig ires that the great development 'aim nut made in general farming and stork! of orgn husbandry in the last few years has then left not been made at the expense of the It"? f>f h eotton acreage. It is easy to see, too.' eotton i that the remark made above as to A winfr fhe increased acre-production brought cotton c about by more livestock on the farm once in has not come as yet to have any make t| general application It i> easy to see, ? in the third place, tint ih<* problem >f too much cotton that is too fewsfC 1:?i proportion of cotton to other ij crops and too great a dependence, on cotton has not yet been altogether worked out. It Is being worked KMn* ' nt the fact remains that there <*? J MOpI* ar- still tens of thousands of farms kidney on which cotton has not vet been put k ... . ergane into Its proper place. filterere Cotton's proper place on the ? im KMne; ... i wearlne I not l c one the crop has ... lone d??pond held that of 'he king to which all ^j'l stoi other <-rops and all other lin. of farm *nd lunn work must be made subordinate. Cot- ,A" ,th ton needs to be made one of a com- need h u inr> a r mnnity of crops, to be put on a demo critic basis of equality with the oth-* THE LANCAST better instead of poorer. An WVl 1 ton farmer can easily hat rnnoy ? loi^o ter r?tat,?n than thut*froni I vlJJvl 1 ldvv burning standpoint, if he w Cotton is a hardy crop, toe e given its place in a planned a _ u w l? make gome cro and then kept in that place pQo; ,an(, u wU1 8tand CO) :ed to for onl>' its fair 8hare neglect. Drought-resistant I irm income. ^ usual degree, it will wait irse. no generally applicable a iong spen Qf unfavorabh the part that cotton should amj then start into vigorot the farming program can be with the coming of favora' n . In the Mississippi Delta, tions. When the bolls open al South Carolina, in scatter- should be gathered prompt cts elsewhere, farmers are does not have to be. It wil jne-half, some as much as for weeks and weeks. Janu: Is. of their land to cotton and picking is nothing uneotni t profitable. The soaring pric- March picking not unknown ? last year or two have made crop of equal importance < >le to keep the cotton acre- largely handled by persons le maximum without any evi- <io heavy work. No other st urease of revenue. With the crop excepting tobacco and of peace and its readiust- ?. v.>- - ? * cmit'i l/l v* IMV.U IS ?l III III O will almost certainly be the comparison, brings as larg r.al farmer. even in the best to the acre, istricls, who will find it pro- Average cottofi yields are ) urow cotton on as much as gracefully low. Much cotton Is of his land. One-half the on land that would not pa cotton makes a man a cotton cultivation if put into corn ather than a general farm- grains. Good farming cou a cotton crop this extensive the acre-yields for the whol look to it for the greater part in 10 years. Individual fan income. The feed and food give their cotton a square t may produce will mostly be double their acre-yields in ? to feed the work-stock and time. Yet cotton is one of Is engaged in cotton produc- try's greatest wealth-produt sh returns from these crops The average acre value of i very minor item compared cotton crop approximate cotton crop's returns. against about $28 for whoa the cotton farmer has reduc- for corn. This with an avei itton acreage to one-third of of only 158 pounds to the at vated land he has become a Carolina's crop or Louisa farmer, but even then, unless worth over $53 to the acre, lire acreage is abnormally the value of the lint alone, e is specializing in cotton, farm crop produces a by-prc e may be getting as much will at all compare in value from his other crops and his tonseed. . there will not likely be any While to raise and harve op of equal importance with of cotton requires considers in crop. This will be the crop labor than to raise and harv vhich his farming must con- of corn, this extra work is the harvesting, and can be gllfh cphnnto r?f 5 r??? n * ...... ?. j ?iiutiriMi or otners unanie I irobablv the one best suited j heavy work of the corn or \vl eat mass of farmers who are! That the cotton States sit aisitiR cotton and have lands up at the head of the list e the crop. in the total value of crops 11 where livestock production is due to the fact that they a the chief business will neces- States. live its cotton acretiRe still Yes. cotton is a wonderfu reduced. It may he cu? to a has not made the South a a a sixth of the cultivated corn has made the corn he] even to a very small acre- because it has been allowr ened chiefly to furnish em- out of its proper place. Inst* t at odd times or to Rive the inR the central crop in a of the farm profitable work, worked out with due reRai v cotton bcltj farmers, com- production ol food and feed y speaking, are ready to eo and beast and to the welfa rth. It is not desirable that soil, it has been allowed to m them should For while the the farmers interest and to 1 uacv of cotton must he over- too many cases practically 1 II ml while more nn/l mnrn m- ...... -- * -- ' ... .-.wm..- in iwi'inif. r.vt'ii in must bp given the livestock year 1919 there are farmers production of feeds for live- taking a gambler's chance 01 liile goner:!' farming and ton crop and landowners \ y are the one hope of South- rented land and bound their and Southern farmers, it is to work nearly all of it i to suppose that the South When the acreage of cotton on. or will at any early ed with that of other crops. railed on. to become a live- ed one-third to one-half and tion. as. let us say. Iowa or ductinn per acre is increas Wisconsin is a livestock sec- readily can be, 50 or 75 equally a mistake to under- when cotton growers make the possibilities of the cot- surplus and so a real "mot as a wealth producer on"" and do not depend upon it perly handled, or to suppose and breed for themselves less cotton the better." and and hay for their mules; cotton country needs to turn farmers of a community stal m this wonderful crop it has ductinn by sticking to nn< d a substitute for it. varieties so a's to offer a ir\ to general opinion, cotton quality to the buyer; when si hard crop on land." Tip marketing system is w 0 grow cotton removes far and the present rush of n dant food from his soil than cotton to the markets at whi v re - any train crop time is done away with, th 1 e\ i ha : g? 'f it < cot t oilseed for f he cot t on be It will g ro w a'.ent in cottonseed meal ami richer; the production of In at meal on the farm, lie re- this ,-ectlon will increase ei 0 more plant food from his than it has been increasing; tie cotton crop that the'production of cotton will be n selling b itter would re- :,s on demands, to time hi. means practically none -ibb- demand tiie world in on lands of the South have "ind the cotton farmer, ot poor not because the cotton country's most prosperous s drawn heavily upon their pendent citizens, will maki 1 plant footj. but because bad 'bin a rival ol the corn 1?< migemcnt lias robbed the soil nation's richest agriculture nil matter all summer and Nor is any one of these it to the washing and leach- impossibility or 'i thing th envy rains. It is easy to work be accomplished within a nto a soil building rotation, tively few years. In fact, ev r cover crop following the them is even in process of r rop, with a summer legume The speed may not be all a three-year rotation will be desired, but progress he average cotton land get made, and in the right di ? NOT YOUR HEART IT'S YOUR KIDf T dt**a?* ta M regpaet*r of psr- dtatsiv. Th* soothing, healtn I majority of th* Hjs afflicting ulatef th* kidney* r*1l*v** toiiay caa b* trace* back to tlong and destroys th* g*r trouble. hao raus?d It. Do not wan Id ney* are th* mo*t tnffccrrtant of th* body. Th*y arV th* tm OCHtD Hj i. th* purifiers, of your blood vap?ult?. In twenty-four I ,, ... . . v. should f*?l hoaJth and vigor y disease Is usually indicated o<g an(j wm bless the day you | s. sleeplessness, nerroum???> of OOIaD MKDAL Haarlem 0 o..^ backache stomach trou/ \aft<lr you f..j that you h n in loin, and lower abdomerf. y^rMlf>' contin.,* to take o ies. gravel. rheu mat lain. sciatica na^sui** each day, ao as t< first - class condition and wai ess derangements are nature's danger of other attacks to warn you that the kjdneys Ask for the original Impor sip. ifou should us* ' QOI,I> MK/>AL bra nd. Throe sizes. > Haarlem Oil Capsule* imme- fundsd H they do not help j ER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. never bef v ~! r' j,po^cI y8for?the| %|g^^gS*f" win you* or small what Car Id double! choice Do e country this blend iners who I leal often . 1 As yot i far less | any unpl ers. coun~ pleasant c the 1917 to discovt My $4 5, withouf t and $:i4 J age^y^ld ^ ^ -1 i fid right * very year ^ produced DECENRALIZATION OF I carrying the in ire cottonj MEAT PACKING URGED P?nsivel>' ictMl way to cheape 1 crop. It' favor the Kenj s rich as s<**'r',,nr.v ??' I'atlonal ("nsumcr1* because we tl It. simply I league Thinks it Would Clu'npen to break up ai >d to getI Food Supply?Others Object. dustry." sad of be-, The packers, rotation1 Washington. Sept. 8.?Arguments ized ,he food 8 "(C to t/e?- that decentralization of the packing pra wprp pgy, for man industry would cheapen the food sup-J former lofa, H re of the Plv were presented to the senate ag-; depended upon onopolize rlculture committee by Mrs. Flor- ujatlonf, jecome in ? nce Kelley, secretary of the National I , padbe, liis whole Consumers' league, but retail dealei s I Ha|tj' Mrs ' Ke?, this good appearing to oppose the Kenyon and! returninK to r( I who are Kendrick bills disagreed with this1 ;{() year8 ago n the cot- theory. | vho have "Carrying cattle long distances in ANVTHIXO tenantts freight cars," said Mrs. Kelley, speak- grahing. Prl n cotton, ing for the consumers' league, "and Lancaster N . compar- .. - TUESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1919. I ? ^ Cigarettes made to neet your taste! are ofiered you as ? cigarette entirely e ordinary?a flayor and smooth;)* 'ss ore attained. 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