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;:AgCipUIU.OCTOBER 23, ISSUE' FOR GREAT-NEW3SERlAi;KSTORyKfm&" EAST j i! fa 1 1 Vol. XXXV. No. 41. EASTEK SfAUTlON A Farm and 1 KaS for The Carolinas, Virginia VC ria, and Florida. 1 : - FOUNDED 1886, AT i N. C. , V--: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy THE COMMON SENSE OF THE COTTON-HOLDING MOVEMENT t -r a m i I. . j. ; - 1 f " . . i rrv TarZhed The Neu TyTri'u ? but b" their inability to act bank credit, etc., makes it impossible i JJ?J?lLfhZ t J;,,f VuZ C0??miC Wor m ?s t0 buy exceV on a "hand-to-mouth" basis, They are taking just enough f f WSTrt ZM ?JJ?AJ't A? .f " dp Consequently if farUs try --- v -v . "j,:"'"' "yy v jurte mem to ouy enougn jor tnree,six, or nine montl , TO HOL : j fe : Jl ' ii i' 3 -farmers cotton Warehouse, conyers, ga. here cotton is protected from fire and weather, and is good collateral ' 1 4. "PICKINGS," THE RESULT OF GIN STORAGE Pjcase cotton growers or to help toiton prices. It is simply reporting the "disputed facts for the information of its readers in New York and else- ncre. Here ii ; the way U sizes up the, situation: , I he difficulty ts, of course, that the spinners in every cotton con- sutntnp country in the world find : themselves almost completely at sea Jl rJ9ard io'-ihe-. fpUie'"6i4Ke; -goods market, or else fatally handi- capped either tyjthe abnormalities of the international credit and ex- change Jpositiorijot by political md social disturbances of a very threat- Ht9 ktnd. Hence they do not dare to commit themselves upon the customary scale in respect taJheir raw material for the coming months Se" though the price at ivhich it is now obtainable is entirely satis- tak'0fy ThP mistffirforce'fwrsue a purity; hand-to-mouth policy, n,,Jn? T tne present only such cotton as they have immediate use for s ham ?avtn9t'to the cotton producers to carry the main part of the 'm, f y unPl the future determines' how much of it can be consumed and at Wnat price ot buother wrfo, the Economic World says that the reason mills are yxn9 cotton As, not that they can't spin it at a profit at present prices, simply say, "Well, if I buy a whole lot more than I want now, you will prac tically have to give it to me." . To try to feed the cotton market now is like trying to get more corn down a foundered horse. It is like trying to make a man eat three more pieces of chocolate cake after he has already i filled himself with dinner and dessert. He doesn't want it NOW but if youjiistwatt till tomorrow, he will beg for it. What is the remedy t The remedy is to get the facts before the jarm ers. We must educate the farmer who is frying to overfeed the market. We must get him to read the papers that are trying to fipht his battles and give him more information and guidance about his marketing problems. We must inform him concerning such triumphs of co-operative effort as California growers have achieved. We must get him to attend the meetings where his interests are discussed. We must get him to join the warehousing organi sation Provided for his benefit. But the first step is to get him to read If he gets the facts about the market and the causes and remedies for present conditions, then these other things will follow. A Complete INDEX to This Issue Appears on Poge 4 :1 s .4- . 4 " It " ( - - .
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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