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i i i- OUTLOOK FOR THE SOUTH'S COTTON CROP-Page 11 N 1 ' fc - - - - Vol. XXIX. No. 33 AM ilUf HERM &M; , 'A Farm and Home Weekly for The Caroling Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDEliV 886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. : , , $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1 HOLD ALL COTTON POSSIBLE-FOOL THE REST IN the face of present conditions there is no getting around the fact that something must be done even if it requires the di rect intervention of the National Governmentto keep the bulk of the 1914 cotton crop from being rushed on the market in ninety days' time. Wherever farmers have taken the advice of the Farmers' Union and established warehouses of their own, in which they can store their crop and borrow on it as collateral, they will be safe. Where farmers have no warehouses they will do well to rent. Every bale possible should be held. The suicidal policy of having all debts mature at the same time of year, moreover, is also now seen in its most dangerous form. Now while the present crisis is upon us, why should not the South 'decide once for all upon having " store accounts " mature at two or three distinct intervals, instead of continuing the present plan which floods the markets with "distressed cot ton' just as the seas on's prices are being fixed? . In the very nature of thingsit hardly seems possible that this great European war can con tinue for more than a fewmonths. Severalof the : warring: nations are not self-supporting in the matter of food stuffs, and with an es timated expense of more than fifty million dollars a day it is evi dent that bankruptcy and starvation must, after all, be the real conquerers, and that at an early date. The most practicable plan of relief for the farmers to adopt right now, in our opinion, is to join together, make warehousing arrange ments in each mar ket, and establish "Sell ing Days" for what ever cotton must be soldpooling it into 100 to 500-bale lots, and having it graded 1 f ; ; aw- ; " I i 7' I , - t $P 1.. BALES OF COTTON BEING LOADED FOR EXPORT The creat European war threatens to greatly reduce the exportation and foreign consumption of American cotton, thus seriously affecting prices unless farmers and business men stand together during the crisis. by experts and priced by competitive bidding, instead of forcing the individual farmer to accept unquestioned the price and grade set by whatever buyer he meets first on the market. It has been asserted heretofore that farmers get only 50 per cent of the prices paid by spinners for quality above middling; and if the European wars should demoralize marketing conditions this season the opportunities for taking advantage of the grow er's ignorance as to grades will be multiplied. We must come to the time when there will be an official weigher and grader in every Southern town big enough to be called a cotton market. That is what our farmers should demandi but just now they must take quick action for themselves. They should pool the crop in each section, warehouse all possible, and have selling days for the rest. And to this end the Farmers Union offi cials or other agricul tural leaders in every county should call cot ton growers meetings to make plans for warehousing, grading, financing and market ing this year's prop, and also for exchang ing seed for meal on the basis of "a ton of 'meal for a ton of seed", unless condi tions are proved to be worse than last year. From the statements of authorities on other pages of this issue, it is apparently the concen sus of opinion that money will be made available to the cotton growers, and that the crop will not have to be sacrificed at ruin ous prices. However, pending the assurance qf such developments, every cotton farmer in the Southshould begin arranging right now for holding the bulk of the crop, selling only such as is absolutely necessary. BE SURE TO READ , Page Applying the Rochdale Principle of Cooperation ... 20 Are You Growing Wheat at a Loss? 6 Cost Accounting in Feeding Cattle 14 Danger of Canning Acids ........... 23 Fall Vegetables ....... I ...... . 4 Farm Women Should Get Benefits of the Smith-Lever Act 8 Page Government Must Come to the Rescue 10 Home Nursing of the Sick . 8 Jubilee Clover Day 6 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Farmers 5 The Coming of the Fall . . . . .... 7 Virginia Farm News 5
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