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Show Farmer nn an(i Uni Mattel LrJ the Pi A sunny fa much money. A book woi buying for yo' It's strange costs than a d The grocer fully if not alv Blessed is th fence quarrel If we never would not app Some men have only gooi Dress wisdoi folks will not f The man v down is never In trying to j we generally h Drudgery fa of work as soa to it, j It is hard t ment to dwell terms. j Some farmei not call on tt they have neve Many a crin: street corners Keep the boy home. 1 The man wl cause he is pa! but a raise o: rogue. Farming as important as ru cept that it d worry. I If you have I income and exp1 how far you i backward? i Not all men church are badi that religion ( their fellows. NOT WORRI Acreage Will 1 Than 15 Per Simpi "Fifteen per c will be the tota ton acreage ol pr's tf; is placed on it. So each man is sure of getting the price his own animals bring. There is a sinking fund for insurance, so if any animal dies or is injured it is fuily paid for. It has proved very satisfactory so far, always netting more than the local buyer could pay, as there is no middleman middle-man to be paid. No one will have any losses to meet or risks to run, only he is subject of course to the fluctuations in price. this year," said Col. John N. Simpson of Dallas. Tex., one of the most extensive exten-sive operators of the southweet, while In Washington recently. "Some persons per-sons will tell you that the cotton acreage acre-age in 1915 will not be so large as last ear by 30 to 40 per cent, but mark what I say, it will not be reduced more than 15 per cent. And it should not be. The cotton acreage does not fix the production by any means. A reduced re-duced acreage might mean a big crop, ind a big acreage a small crop. There are so many varied conditions, dependent depen-dent upon climate, the boll weevil and )ther things, that it is impossible to determine how much cotton any section sec-tion vill make until a few weeks before be-fore picking. "It is utter folly for persons in official offi-cial life, or in business, to tell the cotton cot-ton planter how much land he shall devote to cotton or what crops he shall plant. Diversification of farming is all right; it's an excellent thing, but the man who has worked his 50 .teres for a generation, raised a big family and learned his land, is cer tainly better able to tell what he ought to do with that land than a man in Washington or New York, who never saw it. The farmer might as well tell the banker how to run the latter's affairs. af-fairs. I look for a good-sized crop this year if weather conditions are favorable, favor-able, and if we get a big crop, it is not going to hurt much. The bulk of last year's crop is out of the farmers' hands. Perhaps 12 per cent remains unsold. Of course, all of this has not been sent to the mills or exported, but he grower has disposed of it The rop averaged the Texas planter about 7 cents a pound, which is not a good price, as everybody knows. "The Southwest, however, is showing show-ing better business conditions. This Is due probably to the sale of the cotton cot-ton and the consequent circulation of money." |