The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 15, 1909, Image 7
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, DIVERSiflGATION OF CROPS
IS THE KEY NOTE
SAYS PRESIDENT HARRIS OF TBEFARM^
ERS* UNION - ft ANT LESS COnON
AND MORE FOOD CROPS.
President U Harris of the boutb
Carolina State Termers' union has
issued the following address, whicfc
he desires that the county papers ol
the Stare should copy:
"Again I want to call your atten
tioo, iarmers, tout now is me uwt
^ _ to fix price on the 1909 cotton crop.
Will you make it 8 or 15 cents? It
is in your power to make it either.
4iI want to, if I can impress upon
you.that diversification of your cropt
is the keynote of the situation. 1
want to urge every Southern farmei
to plant at least -35 per cent of bit
cotton land in food crops, so as tc
make home self-sustaining. Now
let's see if it will pay us as farmen
to diversify ourorops. To my knowl
*edge, the farmer who has not beer
? 1-- ? ? hn oaK.oii ttwrvt i r\rr KQ(
USIklUg UUU1C BCll-oujj(n;i?iu^ uw
been swappiug $1 for 50 cents. Now
let's see if this assertion is true. Thi
farmer who bought corn last yea:
paid $1*10 cash for it. If he borrow
e?i the money to bay with it cost hin
$1.25,as be paid interest on the mon
ey. If he hauled it home ten mile
it cost him 10 cents. It is worth 1(
cents per bushel to hanl corn tei
miles, so his oorn cost him $1.35
Now, any good, progressive farmei
can make all the corn he will nee<
on his farm lor 35 cents per bushel
You see he gave a dollar for what hi
could have raised for 35 cents pe:
bnshel. Are any of the Southeri
farmers guilty of the aV If so
go and sin no more. Diu you bo;
any bacon? It is selling now for 12*
cents cash. Still swapping $1 for 51
cents. Any good farmer can mia
-enough for his family use for 3 cent
per pound. Did you boy any bay
If you did you are still at the sam
old way of exchanging. If yoi
fought a horse or a male you pai<
from $200 to $250. You can rai?
f -one just us good for less than $100
Now. brother farmers,do not sav tha
I you
caunot raise corn for 33 cents
Try to do it. I have met more thar
r] 50 farmers this year that laised it fo
less than 35 cents per bushel, and ?j
many as 15 who raised it for less thai
20 cents. The farmer who is rais
ing corn for 30 cents, bacon for <
cents, raising his own horses am
making home self-supporting ha;
-juit swappiug $1 for 50 cents. Th<
' j farmer who is buying is still at hii
^ old job. While the farmer who if
l, j buying on a lien and mortgage oi
I his crop is just swapping $1 for 2i
cents, or the cash buyer is swappiug
$1 for 50 cents. He can raise it for
half what he pays for it when h<
buys it. Brother farmer, if you an
guilty of the above sin I say to you
sin no more. Now, what price wii
iyou have for the 1909 crop? Wil
you have 8 or 15 cents? Remember
it is all in your hands, and you wil
get whatever price you make it. T(
get 15 cents you will have to diver
sify your crops and 6top exchanging
$1 for 50 ceuts, or you will never b<
able to get a remunerative price
I jNow, what is the use for the farmer*
of the South to raise 13,000,(XX
frales of cotton and not get for il
more thau they can for a 7,000,000.
or 8,000,000 bale crop? Think of th<
enormous expeuse of raising the ex
tra 5,0000,000 bales to bear th<
I\ market down. And who does this!
i It is the farmer. Thiuk and considej
\ for a moment what you are doing anc
1 you will quit it. Do you think for i
moment that the manufacture]
would do any such ruinous business
.as this? No, he would stop one-hali
of his machinery at once aud curtai
his output one*nalf and make the
nme profit. Now, brother farmers,
se a little good business juugmeni
H id common gocd horse sense. J
Bar 80me farmer say, "Mr Jones i;
^^Tgoing to cut his cotton acreage and J
will just increase mine." Sad, but
I thife is too true to make a joke of.
I This is just what the speculator*
world says you will do. The mosl
H essential thing for the farmers to do
this year is to plant 35 per cent of
B cotton land in food crops aud live at
B I took dinner the other day with
a man who lives in the country. ]
jean not say that be was a farmer,
for his dinner did not satisfy me in
' I calling bim a farmer, for everything
' I be had on his table was bought.
Ont of curiosity I asked him how
be cured his bacon. He said Mr
Armour cured it for him. I asked
him what tomato he found was best
! for canning. told me his were
j canned in Baltimore. I asked bim
, what kind of turnips he sowed for
t making salad. He told me be
bought tbat also. Then I wanted
, to know what kind of cotton seed
, he plaDted, and be quickly answered
: 'I plant Toole's and Cook's.'
. So you can readily see that be was a
planter and not a real, real fanner.
, This is the kind of farming that
i causes 8-cent cotton. I was in a
[ grocery atoie the other day and one
r of these planters came in to buy
} some corn, flour, bacon and hay.
, He asked the price of corn, $1.10;
flour, $7 per barrel; bacon, 12 1-2
j cents per pound, and bay, $23 per
ton. He said to the merchant (A
i jou going to rob me?' The
, chant told him he had robbed
j self. 'You did it by plantin.
, the cotton you could last year.'
r "Now, brother farmers, let's look
. at things square in the face and see
l that October cotton is being sold
. for about 9 cents on the New
s York exchange. Now, are you go.
) ing to plant another big crop when
, you know that 9 cents is about the
/Wjf ftf nnvlnoMnn? Rnrplv not
vvvw V4 |/*wv?vv?vw> ?J
r There is just one thing that will
j keep you from delivering joar cotton
crop of 1909 for 9 cents, and
e that is organic into the Farmers
r Educational and Cooperative Unior
j of America. Plant 35 per cent oi
^ your cotton crop into food cropt
P and you will get as much money for
I an 8,500,000-bale crop as you wil
j for a 13,000,000-bale crop.
e "B. Harris,
s "President S C State Farmers' Un?
ion."
e The following important meeting
l has been ordered:
1 "All the county presidents are esa
pecially requested to meet with tb(
State executive committee on Thurst
day, April 29, 1909, at'8 p m, iu th<
city of Columbia, S C, tor the purj
pose of consulting together in referr
ence to the handling of the cotton
8 crop of 1909, and such other matters
j as may be useful for the upbuilding
_ J of the onion in securing a more comi1
plete organization in all the counties
j of the State.
s "As many of the county secretaries
4 and county business agents as can
s conveniently do so a/e requested to
g attend also, together with as many
1 members of the union as can come,
j "A mass meeting is desired for disr
cussion and consultation.
' x Harris,
? "President S C State Farmers' Union.
"J Whitner Reid,
"Secretary-Treasurer."'
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It Can Be Done in Kiuptree.
The hack aches at times with a
dull, indescribable feeling, making
you weary and restless; piercing
pains shoot across the region of the
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