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A Farm And Home Weekly for
Ihe Carolinas.Virginia. Georgia, and Florida.
Vol. XXX. No. 36.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,
1886, AT RALEIGH,
$1 a Year; 5c. a Copy
PICK COTTON QUICKLY
HERE'S the slogan and . shibboleth we would suggest to cotton
farmers now Pick Cotton Quickly and Sell It Slowly, li In the
matter of picking the importance of promptness the utmost
promptness was very effectively summed up by a former State Dem
onstration Agent who recently declared in our columns:
"From careful observation we are certain that under average con-
and flooded markets, price3p rancing later, as was the case last season.
Millions of bales rushed on 1$ early market were sold at six and seven
cents last fall, but it was ten cents before planting ended. What then
ought a 12,000,000 bale crop to be bringing by 1916 planting time?
2. Warehousing is'the key to success here, and a state warehous
ing system is needed in every state. Notice Mr. McLaurin's report that
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ditionsa field that will turn out ten bales of cotton if .picked in Sep
tember and October, will hardly make more than eight bales if left in
the field until December or January, ; Then the reduced price due to
poor grades will probably result in further loss to the value of two
more bales: rTh nther AvhrAjti itie man who, instead of picking his
cotton as it opens, leaves ft in the fields until late fall or early j
wfnrer, suffers an average loss ot arouna
-uper cent of its total value.
The utter wastefulness of many of our
folks in this respect is almost sickening.
Men, women and children will work through
the hottest days of summer to keep the cot
ton cultivated and free from grass, and then
throw away their profits by failure to pick
promptly when the gentler warmth 6f autumn
makes it a joy to be outdoors.
The farmer's profits are none too large
when he gets the biggest prices the market
offers. Let him not throw away by careless
and delayed picking any hard-earned dollars
so much needed by his wife and children.
Let's pick the cotton quickly. And then let's
sell it slowly. All the articles in this week's
Paper point clearly to the wisdom of this T
course. ' . -
h Authorities point out the great de
pression every season from "distress' cotton
DON'T FAIL TO READ w
A Banker's View of the Gtton Situation 7
Demand the Incorporation of Rural
Communities.
Government Will Back the Banks; Will
Banks Back the Farmer ? . .
Harvesting and Storing the Year's Crops
September Garden Notes .
September Livestock Suggestions Y . .
The Cotton Outlook at Home and Abroad
the South Must Give Rural Cosununi-
ties Local Self-government . v. .
Warehousing and Financing the 1915
Cotton Crop : .
You Can Get an All-Time Hcaltk
fleer : ...... ' v
farmers can borrow 80 per cent of the value of the cotton stored
in the South Carolina warehouses. And notice Mr. Harding's report
that the Government will stand behind the banks in financing the crop.
v 3. Warehouses are also needed to prevent the weather-damage to
bales left out in the open after they are ginned a loss which Mr. Nathan
Adams on page 7 estimates at i5, 000,000 a
year to Texas farmers alone. This is shameful.
Notice also that the Arkansas r arm-
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ers ' Union is helping farmers grade their
cotton and sell both cotton and cotton seed in
pools work farmers in every county should
organize and do for themselves. Why not in
your county?
It's easy enough to blame England and the
government and everybody else a thousand
miles away, but the first thing to do is to get
right in our own cotton patch by having the
cotton picked quickly; then take in the neigh
borhood by getting neighbors to hold, grade,
warehouse and sell together; then reach the
market town by having a committee inter
view the bankers there and get them right,
and then take in the whole state by demand
ingf a state warehouse system.
Pick quickly and sell slowly and the
twelve-cent battle will be won!
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