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Show COTTON TO PLANT THIS YEAR Some Thoughts as to the Area for This Year Farmers Urged to Do the Proper Thing. We wish to do everything within our power to reduce the area to be planted in cotton for this year. It would seem that the condition of the cotton market and the, low price, would be sufficient argument, and that the farmers would need no other. Still we find many undecided as to the amount of cotton they will plant another an-other year. It looks to us that the proper way to do is to plant all the land you can see any practical results from to other crops, and the rest in cotton. Many will use the same old delusive argument that "I am in debt and hence must plant all the cotton 1 can." They fail to see that this policy is just what has gotten them in debt. We want to tell you what M. W. S. Witham of the Witham Banks, said: "Any banker who will lend ironey to a farmer to grow more cotton cot-ton in 1915 is short above the eyes, because any farmer can buy cotton cheaper than he can grow. it. Better ttiy cotton than attempt to grow it." We do not desire ever to see our faoiers again selling cotton below the C03. ;f production. It is bad enough to wo-k hard all the year, and wait un:il cotton selling time to get your rnc-iey. It is tenfold worse to work and fail to get fair wages, to be compelled com-pelled to cut your earnings in half. No other workmen on earth are ever asked to do this. And we cotton farmers are indeed "short above the eyes," if we plant' over 70 per cent of 1914 area in cotton, and if we use enough fertilizer to make ever a 10,-000,000-bale crop. This result will never be attained by waiting until everybody does their duty but by each individual farmer doing the proper thing on his own farm. Southern South-ern Cultivator. |