Cotton Should Be Grown Only On The Best Soils
FARMER FACING
TOUGH PROBLEM
IN THIS STATE
• _
Reduction Of Acreage Is
Also Necessary In Order
To Tit In With Present
Demands.
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BY C. B. WILLIAMS
Head, Department of Agronomy, N.
C. Experiment Station.
In this day of low selling prices for
practically all agricultural products,
there arises in the minds of North Car
olina cotton growers the question as
to wnat will be best for them to d
with cotton this year.
From a consideration of availabl
facts, not theories, it would appear tha
the only safe plan to follow is on
which will lead to a material reduc
tion in acreage so that the total pro
duction of cotton will be under tota
consumption, and to so handle th<
acreage planted that the cost of pro
ducing a pound of cotton will be re
duced to the very lowest possible fig
ures.
In reducing acreage, only the best
soils on each farm, well suited to the
growth of the crop, should be planted.
The preparation of the land and the
cultivation of the crop, economically
performed, should be of the kind and
amount best suited for the germina
tion of the seed and for a healthy and
uninterrupted growth of it from start
to finish.
At the present time a good number
of North Carolina cotton growers are
in a quandary as to whether it will or
will not be best to leave off entirely
the use of fertilizers or to greatly re
duce the applications under what had
been found in previous years to be
most profitable, when lint and seed
were selling at much higher prices
than obtain at the present time.
Bearing on this question, it may be
of interest to growers to know that
all of the many field results obtained
by this department of the experiment
station in different parts of the cot
ton-growing area of the state during
the past 20 years, show decidedly that
the greatest net profit per acre is ob
tained from growing cotton with
proper fertilization as contrasted with
ill-suited or no fertilization, when the
selling price for lint and seed are fair
to good. The loss to the grower will be
much less under proper fertilization
than when not fertilized at all or only
poorly fertilized when cotton prices
are very low.
The results of field tests by this de
partment have shown unmistakably the
following with reference to what the
best policy to follow in the fertiliza
tion of this crop, even under the ad
verse conditions which obtain at the
present time:
(1) Without fertilization, when the
selling price of cotton is below the i
equivalent of 5 cents per pound for s
seed cotton, its growth will usually '
be at a loss on dominant cotton soils’
of the coastal plain and piedmont sec- °
tions of the state.
(2) With typical cotton soils of the j
coastal plain region, the most profit- |
able applications are ones varying <
from 600 to 800 pounds per acre of 1
suitable fertilizer mixtures, provided
| the selling price of cotton is the equiv
HOMESPUN SENSE
Pithy Quotations from Public Addresses of
MELVIN A. TRAYLOR
President, First National Bank, Chicago
“It is time some leadership and some
party called our attention to the fact
there is no magic cure for the ills and
the evils of human folly. We trod the
primrose path of extravagance, of
thoughtless and of almost criminal
neglect of every sound principle of
human conduct, from the individual to
the government, and the individual
was aided, encouraged, and abetted on
that path by the government and those
responsible for its administration.”
* * *
“One of the biggest things was a
watered state of mind in which we all
thought we were richer than we were,
and were living beyond our means.”
* * *
“In my opinion, no great division of
human society has ever been lied to,
and lied about, as much in the same
period of time as has the American
farmer.”
* * *
“This then is my hope for our future
—that we may be rich without forget
ting to be righteous; that we may be
powerful without being offensively
proud; that we may be nationally
minded without being narrow-minded;
and, finally, that we may live in a world
of fact without surrendering our faith.”
* * *
“I would urge consideration of the
complete abolishment of so-called floor
trading, which, as I am informed, has
about it most of the characteristics of
plain crap shooting, and few, if any,
more redeeming features than that de
lightful Ethiopian pastime.”
* * *
“It is bad enough when the intelli
gent and wealthy speculate and lose,
but when scrubwomen, day laborers,
small home owners, wives and youths
speculate and lose, simply because they
.'an go to a broker’s office and get
;redit for small sums, the practice
:eases to be defensible on any ground.”
* * *
“Out of the stress ami difficulty of
be situation I believe gradually we
hall return to simpler thinking and
impler living. For it seems to me
tiat- —— — —'-mre n , *>.t „
bandon the struggle to live up with'
be Joneses, and to rediscover the true
urpose of life, which is the joy to be
ound in the simple virtues of indus
ry, thrift and sane living. I believe in
mr people, in our country, and in the
5od w'ho directs our destinies; and I
■velcome the future with confidence
ind unshaken faith.”
* * * i
ignorance of economic theories, but
because of our utter disregard and
defiance of all economic laws. Ambi
tion, stupidity, and greed have dictated
policies, and trouble has been the
result.”
* * •
“All through history . . . the nations
that have been agriculturists and have
included in their agricultural and do
mestic pursuits the breeding and rais
ing of livestock have been the nations
that have endured the longest and
performed the greatest work for man
kind.”
* * *
“Open the door of an agricultural
school and you close the door of a
poorhouse.”
* * *
"Relief from owing too much money
does not lie in borrowing more.”
* * *
"Human welfare, I believe, means
more than the mere assurance to the
individual of political rights — life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness —
as enunciated in the Declaration of In
dependence; it means also the oppor
tunity to exercise these inalienable
rights.”
* * •
“Knowledge is one thing, hut courage
of leadership is another.”
* * *
“Falsehood and error make the
headlines, while truth and fact are
lost in the maze of half-point type.”
* * *
“What does freckle-faced Johnny,
snub-nosed Bill or red-headed Jim care
about composition, translation or con
jugation? The only cube root life will
ever give them a chance to extract will
probably be that of a hickory or sassa
fras sprout; the only unknown quan
tity they will ever seek to find will be
the measure of the nubbins they can
produce on the worn-out fields their
fathers have robbed before them; the
only conjugation they will ever under
take will sound something like ‘We
Work,’ ‘You Work,’ ‘They Work’.”
* * *
.. ■■iiWO ii«MM>ntri trail* .tllia hungry, the
unfed, the feeble voice of the sick, the
empty basket of the unemployed,
against the maintenance of party pref
erence or individual advantage or per
sonal achievement.”
* * *
“I believe I am a better farmer by
a long shot than I am a banker.”
* * *
“We must either all thrive together
Suspended Minister'
Sues Two Accusers
Baltimore — Suspended from the
Methodist Episcopal ministry by a
church investigating committee, the
Rev. Joseph Templeton Herson, of An
napolis, filed $100,000 libel suits
against the two preachers who prefer
red the unprudent and unministerial
conduct” charges against him. Three
women are involved.
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for FRETFUL, 1
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When your child tosses and cries
out in his sleep, it means he is not
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BUB —Mis. Jewel Harris,
|Bpl Winnsboro, Texas. j||Bp
WjBn Sold At All Drug «Bp'
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REYNOLDS ASSERTS
UNIONS ARE NEEDED
"Professional men, merchants, man
ufacturers and employers have their
unions; it is through organization
alone that an individual may expect
to better his position and raise himself
above the bread line,” declared R. R.
Reynolds? candidate for the U. S. Sen
ate.
"Professional men do not call their
organizations by the name of unions,”
the speaker said, "but they are exact
ly that. Take the doctors for example;
they make up a scale of prices and
stick to it. So do all other professional
men. Lawyers have their prices. Mer
chants have their credit associations.
Employers of all kinds are organized
for their mutual benefit.”
Mr. Reynolds said that working peo
ple who fail to join their union organ
izations are missing the greatest op
portunity of protecting their inter
ests, for everything that the working
man has or expects to get will be
through the standards set by organiz
ed labor.
The speaker deplored the fact that
the U. S. Senate had appropriated a
two billion-dollar booster fund for
banks and capitalists and had defeat
ed a "measly $375,000,000 to feed the
hungry” of this country.
r- i
“We have not failed because of
Gandhi Called
'Dandy’ During
His College Day!
Pittsburgh, Pa.—"Gandhi the Dan
dy” was the nickname of the Mahat
ma M. K. Gandhi during his universit)
career, when he was known as the besi
dressed man on the Oxford campus
according to Dr. Louis Joffe, of Pitts
burgh.
| or all suffer disaster.
"Gandhi was quite a sheik with the
ladies as a youth in England,” Dr.
Joffe said, pointing out that young
1 wealthy Indians are "pampered” in
England.
"Gandhi is a psychological case. I
am convinced his motivating force is
hatred, not only of the English, but
of the whole white race.”
Dr. Joffe, a Russian exile, met
Gandhi in South Africa, he said.
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