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D. R. OOKKR GIVES
SOME SOUND ADVICE.
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Tells How Cotton Acreage Can Best
Reduced. Raise Foodstuffs^
He Urges.
Mr. D. R. Coker, of Hartsville, has
sent out the following letter:
"Although cotton planting time is
only six or eight weeks off many cotton
growers all over the South have
not yet determined on what policy
they will pursue as to the apportionment
of their acreage and as to the
use of fertilizer. Advice is being
showered upon them in such volume
and of such diverse tenor,, however,
the advice being offered by the wisest
iarrn economists coincide. All say
roduce cotton acrage and raise adequate
food stuffs. And in the wisdom
of thiB program I most heartily concur.
*"I have not, however, seen any
formula presented which will allow
each farmer to figure for himself the
correct amount of his acreage which
he should plant In food Btuffg end in
cotton and 1 propose to here lay down
what I consider the correct rule.
"First, however, let us discuss conditions
which must be met by any
proposed program. Statisticians tell
us that we will have a carry over of
about nine million bales on August 1. <
They also tell us that the South pur- 1
chases hundreds of million8 of dollars
worth of corn, hay and other
food products which can and should
be raised here. It is a notorious fact
that most plantations do not produce
a sufficiency of syrup, sweet potatoes,
.vegetables and friuts for the
consumption of landloard and tenants
and few are adequately stocked with
cows and hogs. There is a market in
every town and factory village for
large quantities of the vegetable and
animal products which can be easily
raised on every farm.-We have right.
at home, therefore, a market for a|
vast amount of food products now!
produced elsewhere but which can
and should be produced hero.
"The nine million bale carry-over i
next August will consist very
largely of low grade cotton of poor,
weak staple. For several years the
carry over of this kind of cotton has.
been rapidly increasing until now
such cotton is only- bringing about,
60 per cent of the value of the cor-;
responding lengths of high grades.,
With the exception of the past three
years the margin between the bare
cost of production of high grade cot-1
ton and its selling price has rarely j
amounted to the difference in the sell- i
ing price between high grade and low
grade cotton. (By bare cost of production
I mean only money expenses
plus a bare living to the laborers.)
With the possible exception of one
year (1919-1920) never in my recollection
has low grade cotton returned
to the grower its cost of production.
Yet year after year we see many
planters all over the South putting in
a cotton acreage which they know
cannqt be gathered in a reasonable
picking season by the labor on their 1
plantations. Year after year we see
quantities of cotton in the fields in
November, December and in some)1
years as late as March.
"Under boll weevil conditions only
early varieties should be used and
early planting practiced. The bulk !
of the crop, therefore, will be open 1
by the last of September and the en- '
tire crop must be gotton out of the I
fields by October 15 or at least by |
November 1, in order to insure a :
grade of middling and better. '
"Under the conditions, prevailing 1
during the past thirty years, with the '
possible exception of one, the farmer 1
who nut in a ereater aereaee than he '
had available labor to pick in six or '
eight weeks has pursued a policy not
only unprofitable to himself but also
destructive to the whole cotton industry,
for he is the man responsible for 1
long years of low prices and for the,1
present enormous carry-over of low j
grade cotton which is now keeping (
the price far below tho cost of pro- 1
duction.
"Succinctly stated, my formula
which can be reduced from the above i
discussion is as follows: Raise all the']
food stuffs adapted for growth in!
ycurth section which are required for |
the consumption of the total farm
population, both human and animal,!
with a reasonable margin for sale to;
the nearby towns. Then raise only as'
much cotton as the labor on the farm i
can gather quickly enough to pro-!
duce nothing below the grade of middling.
Let the balance of the land lie!
out or plant it in some soil improving
crop.
If the foregoing formula is strictly
applied to every plantation the reduc
nun iu. iue conou acreage win ue
very great.
"I have little hope that the campaign
for reduction by agreement
will bring adequate results. Most farmers
are individualists and will figure
out a program which they thrnk
will best meet tbft requirements of
the situation. If we can focus the attention
of very planter upon the fact
that low grade cotton rarely if ever'
returns the cost of production and the J
further fact that its production has
been responsible for the woeful situation
today existing we have accomplished
the primary thing necessary
to effect acreage reduction. No farmer
is going to deliberately do something
which he figures in advance
will be unprofitable and further no
farmer wants to be considered an
enemy to the cotton industry as a
whole. So, the business judgment of
the great body of cotton growers and
an aroused public sentiment will, I
think, accomplish an adequate reduction
if this matter can be properly
"presented to the entire South before
planting time.
"Just a further word about the
use of fertilizers. If anything has
been clearly demonstrated in the
agriculture of the eastern cotton belt
it i8 that cotton can be more cheaply
produced (even at low prices) with
the use of a fair and well balanced
ration of fertilisers that without.
b Baaed on present prices for cotton, 11
do not think that the average farmer
ean afford to use less than f 12 or
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ID MLLON
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$16 worth of fertiliser per acre, the
formula and amount of course varying
with the type and condition of
the soil.
"Very little fertiliser has yet been
bought and if the farmers are to plant
their crops on time no'time is to be
lost in securing their supply. A little
further delay will mean late deliveries,
late planting and the risk of the
destruction of the crop by the boll
weevil.
"(Note: Of course the principlest
uiBcuasea uDove apply to tobacco and
other money crops as well as to cotton.
Farm profits are usually too narrow
to allow for the production of
low grades in any money crop.)
"DAVID R. COKER."
"Hartsville, S. C."
"February 14, 1921."
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SWEET POTATO HOUSE
We will get a charter for <6,000
this week incorporating the Dillon
Sweet Potato Storage Company. We
have forty subscriptions to the capital
stock of the company, each subscription
being for one hundred dollars.
We would like to secure twenty
morn subscriDtions for S100 00 nach
If you wish to encourage the most
promising new industry in this section
come to the Carolina Milling Co.
and let us have your subscription for
one hundred dollars.
We expect to build a three compartment
storage house under plans
of the Department of Agriculture,
forty feet by one hundred and ten
feet, and capable of curing and storing
fifteen thousand bushels of potatoes.
We have bargained with the,
new cotton warehouse to buy from'
them a lot 150 x 150 feet facing the
town power plant on Jackson street.
We wish to assure our friends that
the house will be ready for business
long before your potato crop can
mature.
We suggest providing yourself
with an abundance of good Porto Rico
seed potatoes. While shipped in plants
may be secured we think it much
safer to grow your plants insuring a
desirable variety of potatoes free
from germs of decay and known not
to carry to your fields nut grass and
other pests.
We wish every prospective customer
expecting to store potatoes to
vommunicate with us promptly, stating
the acreage you expect to plant
and how many crates you wish to provide
storage space for. A community
about twenty five miles frt>m Dillon
has made application to ship in fif-,
teen hundred bushels of potatoes for
storage. We will of course hope to
fill our house by taking on local po- [
tatoes, but if our farmers will not engage
our facilities it may be desirable
to take in some potatoes to be shipped
in on the railroad.
In closing this article I wish to
quote from a recent bulletin: "As an
example of what can be done with
sweet potatoes in a community, Longview,
Texas, commenced to build the
sweet potato business a few years
ago and soon became the largest
sweet potato shipping point in the
world. In 1914 there were thirteen
car loads shipped from Longview, in
1915, 177 cars; in 1916, 320 cars;
in 1917, 425 cars; in 1918, (a dry
year) about five hundred cars, and
in 1919 a little les3 than one thousand
cars. This shows what can be
lone in a community where curing
plants and markets arc established.
Land in that vicinity that was worth
f25.00 per acre in 1915 is now worth
pne hundred and fifty per acre and
nany men, both farmers and
pusiness men, who had practically
nothing five years ago have become
financially independent and made it
n the sweet potato business."
Wade Stackhouse.
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There are Tew persons who would
find the journey of life interesting
without a lot of stop-over privileges.
Eight and one half per cent of all
deaths in this country are attributed
to heart disease.
CORPORATOR'S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that pur- j
suant to an Act of the General As- j
stmbly of 10 20 providing for thei
manner of incorporation of joint
stock companies and corporations the!
undersigned will apply to the Secre-!
tary of State on Monday the 28th day
of February, 1921 for a Charter for a
potato storage warehouse, the name
thereof to be the Dillon Sweet Potato
Storage Co., with its principal
place of business at Dillon in the
County and State aforesaid.
Wade Stackhouse.
Wade Stackhouse,
W. Murchison,
J. D. Manning,
2 24 It. Corporators.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.
' No tit? la hereby given that a general
election will be held in the town
of Little Rok, 8. C., on Tuesday the
22nd day of March, 1921, at which
election a Mayor and four aldermen
will be elected to serve for a period
of two years.
Books of registration for the registration
of all Qualified electors.
both male and female, are open at the
Bank of Little Rock and will remain
open until 12 o'clock hoon on the 14th
day of March, 1921.
Every citizen of the United States
who has been a resident of the state
two years, the county one year, the
towti four months, and shall have
paid six months before the date of
said election any poll or property tax
then due and payable shall be registered.
The ballot boxes will open at 8
o'clock a. m. and close at 4 o'clock p.
m. The following managers of election
have been appointed to hold said
election: M. S. Britt, J. H. Meadors,
Abe Iseman.
A. D. POPE, Mayor.
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NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE.
Notice is hereby given that Jno. L.
Dew, administrator of estate of Mrs.
Bethea C. Dew, deceased, has made
applicatiou unto me for final discharge
as administrator and that
Thursday, March 3rd 11 o'clock in the
forenoon hag been appointed for the
hearing of the said petition.
All persons holding claims against
the said estate are requested to file
them with the administrator on or
wwvic xx u ciucx iu iue iorenoon on
March 3rd, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery.
JOE CABELL DAVIS,
Judge of Probate, j
2 17 4t. Dillon County.
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company, no matter how fair and high princi]
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repair service and has used every effort to raal
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goods are sold is equal if not superior to that i
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something new and originated by the farmei
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associations in connection with the Council <
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"National Repair Weeks" as this Company.
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would be foolish to purchase new ones. Whe
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cent greater than ever before at this time of
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where with an assortment of repairs in stoc
render every assistance.
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have purchased its machines has been a ma
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as meant cutting down production
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