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Show Ii DINNERS AND GUNNERb I The price of cotton dropped at the time when southern, I planters were read to markel the bulk of this year'e crop. Natural-I Natural-I lv this lnt the po. k.-tbooks of inan.v 1 " Now, it seems, a south-wide movement is under way to compel T storage of raw cotton. Ginnera ar being warned to cease opera-I opera-I tior.s This would make lor a cotton shortage, which, planters hop. h will bring the price up 1 Those producers, financially able, are holding their cotton. Oth- I ers, less well 'fixed, have to s. II Warnings have r-a-h-d pinners m I Arkansas. South Carolina. Georgia, and elsewhere, to close down. Thev have been told their gini would be destroyed thai gunners would stop ?inner This is, of course, no wa to solve the marketing problem. Li Ithe producer imi'i getting the cost of production pins a fair profit, il 'is of national concern. But the wrong can'1 be righted by the use 'of guns, nor by warnings, nor DJ dosing gini It is doubtful ii ih closing of gins no would more tbsn temporarily increase prices which would drop again as soon as unloading of cotton began again. You, Mr. Planter, cannot repeal the 'hw of lupplj and demand with a shotgun They are trying to do thai in Russia and failiug. You can help solve the marketing problem You can lend your voice and influence to the g. ttmg of accurate production est itl tistics, and you can help in the untangling of transportation and other knots having no little to do with the matter of farmers' getting get-ting a fair price , , . As a matter of fad. though, there will always be that law 01 supply and demand. There will be years, even under the most perfect per-fect marketing and transportation sns'.miis, when producers will have to 6ell on a falling market falling because the production is larger than the demand And. again, therr will W y nr ulo n th.-x -ill come ts a soaring market years when supply doesn't meet demand There will be lean years and fat years ; years of small crops, and vears of bumper crop. And nobody is going to get small-crop prices in bumper-crop ycurs, even though he does bis marketing with a shotgun on his arm. |