DIVERSIFICATION
“Something to Sell Every Day”
By OSWALD WILSON, Secretary National Cotton Association.
ROSE BO ROUGH'G REASONS
Why the Cotton Acreage of the South
Should Be Reduced.
W. B. Roseborough, of Senatobia,
Miss . gives five good reasons why the
cotton acreage for the year 11)05
should be reduced. They are:
1. Cotton acreage should be re
duced in 1905 because a crop of 10,
000.000 bales would sell for $50 per
bale, or $500,000,000, whereas a crop
of 13,000,000 bales would sell for not
more than $30 per bale, or $390,000,
000.
2. Under normal conditions it costs
$30 per bale to raise and market cot
ton. The cost of raising and market
ing 10.000,000 bales leaves a profit of
$200,000,000. The cost of raising and
marketing 13.000,000 bales would
leave no profit at $30 per bale, and
should the price drop to $20 per bale
(as well informed people contend)
would leave a loss to the South of
$130,000,000.
3. To raise the extra 3,000,000 bales
requires 6,000.000 acres of land.
Should this 6,000,000 acres be worked
in corn it would yield 120,000,000
bushels, worth $60,000,000. Should it
be planted in peas it would yield 90,
000.000 bushels, worth $50,000,000.
Should this pea crop be cut for hay it
would furnish 12,000,00 tons, worth
$96,000,000. Add any one of these
sums to the sum obtained for the 10,
000.000 hales of cotton and it empha
sizes the folly of increased cotton
acreage.
4 To cultivate and gather the crop
from 6.000,000 acres planted in cotton
would cost about $90,000,000. To cul
tivate and gather the crop from 6,000.
00 acres planted in corn would cost
about $23,000,000. The 6,000,000 acres
sowed in peas would cost for sowing,
mowing and stacking about $25,000,
000. Hence, to plant this 6,000,000
acres in cotton in 1905 means a loss
to the South of $130,000,000; planted
in com means a profit (on cotton and
corn) of $237,000,000; sowed in peas
means, a profit of $271,000,000.
5. The truth of the above state
ments when applied to individual
farmers can be proven by object les
sons in every county of the cotton
growing district. The farmer who
han sold corn, hay and meat, practi
cally, every year for the last ten is
lending money; the farmer who has
bought his corn, hay and meat, prac
, tically, every year for the last ten. is
born money—when he can.
A Banker’s Opinion.
W H. Rivers, president of the Texas
Bankers' Association, In an address at
New Orleans, said:
“There is no use denying the fact
that the banker in his respective com
munity, is, or should be, the indus
trial safety valve to that community,
and when he expresses himself on
financial matters, the most illiterate
and most learned stop to listen, as
the bankers of the United States are
considered its financiers, and right
fully so. When we want to know law,
we go to the lawyer; when we want
to know medicine, we go to the doctor,
and the world is fast finding out that,
whet! they want to learn finances, they
must go to the financier.
“In my opinion, we should pass a
resolution expressing in the strongest
terms that we believe the only
remi dy, and a safe remedy, is to re
duce the acreage of cotton from 25 to
S3 1-3 per cent. If this is done, the
crop would bring more money than a
fuli crop of cotton. Plant this 33 1-3
^ per. cent in corn and cane, hay, pota
toes, dr.; raise some hogs; let the
farmer have his smokehouse and corn
crib on his own farm; fatten a few
beeves and hogs with his surplus corn
and hay; lot his cotton crop be his
surplus crop: send his children to
school in place of keeping them at
home all fall and winter picking 5
cent cotton. Diversification is the
only roe I to prosperity for the farmer
of the South."
Diversification Buttons.
Orders for “diversification buttons”
of the National Cotton Association are
coming in with every mail from every
State- in the South. We have a large
order from the Newton Cotton Mills,
Newton, N. C.
The executive committee of the
Texas Bankers’ Association, at Austin,
February 8. 1905, which represents
all the banks of the State, passed the
following resolution, and also in
structed the secretary to write every
banker in the State, asking them to
subscribe for one hundred or more
buttons.
“Whereas, The interest of the en
tire South demands that an organized
and systematic effort be made to re
duce the cotton acreage to be planted
this year, and for each farmer to adopt
diversification .and the cultural system
of growing cotton; therefore be it
“Unsolved by the executive commit
tee, Texas Bankers’ Association, that
we endorse the work of the National
Cotton Association in the plan of or
ganizing the cotton farmers, bankers
and business men of the South into
school precinct meetings for the pur
pose of securing pledges for a uni
form, systematic reduction of acreage
and adoption of diversification, and
ask the co-operation and support of
tht* business interests of the South."
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“Demand for Hogs.”
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. C, 1005.
Mr. Oswald Wilson, City:
Dear Mr. Wilson—In reply to your
request I will give you as briefly as
possible my ideas as to the reasons,
from a standpoint of profit, why inert
hogs should be raised in Texas.
For the sake of argument, we will
concede that supply and demand
governs the profit to a great extent
that is made on any commodity. The
demand, that is to say the consump
tion of pork products in the State of
Texas, is over $20,000,000 per annum.
During 1894 the hogs raised in Texas
and sold to the packers was less than
$300,000, and while it is true that
quite a large amount of hogs products
are killed and consumed locally, still
the greatest part of the consumption
is produced by the packing houses.
According to these figures it would
appear that some one other than
Texans are raising the pork products
that we eat. Now, what are Texas
farmers here for? Are they here to
eat the products of the Nebraska hog
raisers, to support the hog industry
there, or are they here for the purpose
of making money to support their own
industry? As long as the packers
have to ship finished pork products
from the North to Texas, then so long
will the Northern hog raisers and the
railroads cat up the possible profits
of the Southern hog producer.
Now, let us consider the possibilities
on the other hand. Here we have the
finest State in the Union for producing
hogs. This statement may be dis
puted, and still, in the face of prob
able dispute, I make it.
Wo have climate so much in favor
of raising hogs for market that in that
respect alone we excel all others. We
have no severe, long winters like the
Northern hog-producing States, con
sequently the fattening process is both
quicker and cheaper, for the reason
that in a cold climate food is con
sumed by the animal to keep up the
animal heat, and he has no chance to
make flesh while this goes on. In
this we gain, because our winters are
so short and mild that all our food
put into the hog will go to make flesh.
We are not troubled with cholera to
any extent, while the industry is
crippled in other States by that dread
disease every year or two. We do not
have to invest heavily in shelter
houses as do the Northern farmers,
and we are not at the expense of serv
ing food hot in the winter as they are.
Texas will produce any grazing foods
that any other State will produce, and
considerably more than most of them.
Land is cheaper here than in the
North, and we can afford to have
larger pastures. It is true that all
Texas is not a good producer of In
dian corn, but where that will not
grow the kaffir and maize varieties
will. Then, again, on account of our
climate, our percentage of deaths
among the little pigs is small com
pared to other States, and on the
same account our labor expenses in
taking care of them correspondingly
less.
Now. if we have these advantages
over other States, and I believe every
Texan will admit that wo do have
them, and if, also, the hog has been
the mortgage lifter of other States,
how much more will he do for us?
Taking all these advantages into con
sideration. and the fact that the pack
ers are calling for three times the
number of hogs for 1905 that were
furnished them in 1901, and it seems
to me we have every reason to say
that more hogs should be raised.
There are other reasons, too, that
effect not only Texas, but the country
| as a w hole. The demand for pork
products has been growing steadily
i larger and the supply of hogs offered
l steadily less in the past few years.
: The stocks of provisions have been
i steadily falling behind, and at the
i same time so have the number of
! hogs. The natural sequence is that,
prices must remain more or less
steady, with every probability of an
increase for some time to come. The
above, are some of the reasons why
we should raise hogs, and now sup
pose you sen if some one can give some
good reasons why they should not be
raised, so that we can have both sides
I of the case to consider. Yours very
truly. C. W. MATTHEWS,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Last year the crop raised exceeded
by nearly 2,000.000 bales the amount
needed for this year’s consumption.
Buyers concluded the price could he
forced down below G cents a counci
and we were presented with the spec
facie of an effort to price a crop of
i l.’l.OOO.OOO bales at over $100,000,000
less than the price at which a crop of
11,000,000 bales sold. Because the
planters have raised 2,000,000 more
bales than will be consumed during
the present year buyers proceed upon
the theory that they should be paid
$100,000,000 less than they would have
been paid had their crop been 2,000,
000 bales smaller.
A Mississippian says that the di
versification of crops creates pros
perity as surely as an overproduction
of cotton begets poverty and want, and
. that corn and peas generate ho~s-just
I as certainly as dogs do fleas. You
i might do well to make a note of these
[ two statements. They are both true
BRIEF ARKANSAS MENTION.
. The Bank of Murfreesboro has op
ened for business.
Nevada county's new jaii at Pres
cott has been completed.
July 1C to 23 will be the Chautauqua
dates at Springdale this year.
The new Christian church building
at Garfield was dedicated Sunday.
Evangelist C. N. Crittenton opened
a meeting in Pine Bluff Sunday. ,
The Woodmen of the World will
hold a spring carnival in Texarkana
in April.
The city of Augusta is out of debt
and has a surplus of $6,035.31 in the
treasury.
Dr. U. L. Higgins, a prominent phy
sician at Alicia, died at that place
with smallpox.
The Bank of Jonesboro has filed
a certificate of increase of capital
stock from $80,000 to $100,000.
Four telephone companies are figur
ing on making application for a fran
chise at Van Buren.
J. A. Robinson of Shreveport will
open a wholesale fish and produce
house in Texarkana.
New plans have been drawn by
Architect R. C. Stephens for the Cross
county court house at Wynne.
The Hope city council has passed
an ordinance annexing a large amount
of territory to the municipality.
Miss E. G. Mosher, state lecturer
and organizer for the W. C. T. U.,
spent last week in north Arkansas.
The town of Wilmar has escaped
smallpox by maintaining a strict
quarantine against all infected points.
For the first time in several years,
Little Red river, in White county, is
frozen and the ice is thick enough to
permit skating.
The Hoxie town council has ordered
four 1,200-candle power arc lights put
in along Texas street facing the Iron
Mountain railroad.
Grip has become almost an epidem
ic in Batesville, many of her citizens
having suffered severe attacks dur
ing the past month.
A new enterprise at Benton is a
wood-turning factory, which produces
grill work, office and store fixtures,
etc. Albert Weaver is the manager.
The omnibus public, building bill of
Congress authorizes the following ap
propriations for Arkansas: Little
Rock. $123,000: Fayeteeville, $50,000;
Pine Bluff. $73,000.
The city authorities of Argenta
state that there are now only eight
cases of smallpox in the city limits,
all being strictly quarantined and iso
lated, and that the disease is being
gradually stamped out in the town and
its vicinity.
The Folley Stave company at Cam
den is soon to put in a stave mill at
Miller’s junction, one mile west of De
light. That company has bought all
of the stave timber on about 40,000
acres of land from the Gurdon Lum
ber company.
A jail delivery occurred at Star
City a lew nights ago. They are:
Richard Newell, murder; Porter Wil
liams, horse stealing; Wm. Stewart,
burglary. Newell returned next day
and gave himself up, but the others
are still at large.
The Pine Bluff and Western rail
road has not yet been opened to Ben
ton, the work having been delayed by
the bad weather. Only a short stretch’
of track remains to be completed,
after which through servie will be in
augurated between Pine Bluff and Hot
Springs.
Mrs. R. S. Bloom was seriously
burned at her home in Little Rock by
the igniting of her dress from an open
stove, and her daughter and son-in
law wero severely burned while ex
tinguishing the flames, which envel
oped Mrs. Bloom. The injuries of
Mrs. Bloom are the most serious, but
they are not expected to prove fatal.
It has been announced that the
Rock Island will build a line from
Trask wood, Saline county, to Crcs
sett, Ashley county. The line will be
i 108 miles in length and will extend
| through a part of the thickest an
best forest land in the state. The
county has never been opened up by
a railroad, and the new lino projected
j by the Rock Island is looked upon
| with favor for this reason.
The superintendent of the school
for the blind at Little Rock reports
that there has not been a serious case
of sickness at the instiution for three
years. There has been much siclc
| ness with the grip recently, but they
| have now nearly all recovered.
The Christian church building at
j Fort Smith is to be dedicated on the
j first Sunday in May. The dedication
sermon will be preached by the Rev.
Z«> c k T. Sweeney. An elaboraETA
Zack T. Sweeney. An appropriate
program is to be presented. The
building and its furnishment, exclu
sive of the pipe organ, has cost about
$28,000. It is one of the handsomest
church structures in Fort Smith.
The state executive board of the
Arkansas Holiness association meets
at Ozark February 24, in the interest
of the holiness school at Ozark.
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Real Estate For Sale.
Some Bargains in Desirable Farm and City Property
Offered by Craig & Henderson.
No. 1. 80 acres good land 1 m from
Newark, on railroad; 40 acres cleared;
23 in cultivation; good bottom land
and a bargain.
No. 2. 80 acres good bottom land 4
miles N.-E. Newark; half subject to
overflow, balance above liighwater;
40 acres in cultivation. Fine land and
a bargain.
No 10. 40 acres good timber land
2 miles from Newark; would make line
cotton land.
No. 15. 100 acres tine land in the
famous Big Bottom country; makes a
bale of cotton and 75 to 100 bushels of
corn to the acre. Fine farm and in
a few years will be worth 16 thousand
dollars, but if taken at once can be
bought for about half that amount.
No. 18. 400 acres tine Big Bottom
farming land; 200 acres in cultivation;
4 houses on place; makes a bale of cot
ton to the acre. Well improved farm
and a genuine bargain if taken at once.
No. 21. 279 acre farm adjoining
Paroquet, 40acres in cultivation, 20
acres in pasture; one 6-room frame
and one 2-room box house on place.
Good well, two pumps, three barns,
two good orchards of 5o bearing trees;
land not in cultivation has good tim
ber.
>o. 24. 20 acres half mile north of
Newark, 15 acres in cultivation; excel
lent location for truck or poultry farm.
No. 25. 11 acres half mile north of
town; good 5-room house, barn, orch
ard, good out buildings and two wells.
56. 160 acre farm with 40 improved
good orchard of .‘!(>0 trees, good 7 room
frame house and good barn; everlast
ing spring.
60. 10 acres in northeast part of
town, all under good fence; good 3
room box house with brick flues; good
well of water, barn, garden; orchard
of 75 bearing trees of apples; also
pears, peaches and grapes.
61. 440 acres 1 mile north of Paro
quet: 140 acres in cultivation; 250 acres
under fence; 2 pastures, 1 of 100 acres
and 1 of 40 acres; 4 2-room and 3-room
houses, good barns, pumps and plenty
of water; three-fourths mile of river
front: ferry landing on place; makes
three-fourths to a bale of cotton and
40 to 60 bushels of corn per acre.
Price fifty-five hundred dollars.
No. 62. New fj-room house with
good barn and smokehouse, line water
and all modern conveniences, located
two blocks from school building, and
near Baptist church. One of the most
desirable locations in town, and will
be sold at a bargain.
no. 26. 140 acre farm, 80 acres in
cultivation; good timber on land not
in cultivation; three 2-room houses,
good well and spring, 2i acre orchard.
Located 8 miles north of Newark,
mile from Black River Academy, mile
from church and in good neighborhood.
Small creek runs through the farm.
no. 27. One block beautiful resi
dence lots just north of school build
ing. Very desirable property and a
bargain.
no. 39. 40 acres timber land 6 miles
southwest of Oil Trough store, good
white oak timber; Price $60,
no. 5,5. 80 acres Big Bottom land
2i miles from Newark: 00 acres In cul
tivation, 3 acres in alfalfa; grows'bale
of cotton to the acre.
no. 37. 2 acres nicest residence
property in north part of town; good
well and garden on place.
5S. 100 acre farm 3 miles north of
1 town, 140 acres in cultivation, 20 acres
good timber, no rocks, 5 room log
house and 4 room frame house, good
well, and nice young orchard.
No. 28. 15 acres tine Big Bottom
land,mile and a half from Newark,all
in cultivation: makes bale of cotton
per acre.
no. 30. 529 acres tine bottom land;
mile river front on Black river; 300
acres under fence; 200 acres line cane
land; valuable white oak timber on
land.
No. 31. Block of nicest iesidence
property in Newark, near sehoo
building.
No. 32. Block nice residence prop
erty in west side Newark, 1 block from
school building.
no. 42. 40 acres timbered land 3 mi.
north of Newark: good hill land and
nice location for small fruit farm.
no. 33. Block residence property in
I north part of town; 80 bearing apple
trees on place; choice residence prop
| erty.
no. 35. 99 acres 2 miles north of
Newark, 70 acres in cultivation, 2-sto
ry 5-room house, good outbuildings,
barns, 20 acre pasture and tine youn
orchard.
No. 38. 40 acres timbered land on
Village creek, 2 miles from Newport,
j tine land; valuable white oak timber
' on place.
43. 300 acres good bottom land, 280
acres in timber; 80 acres in timothy;
good 4 room house; good barn and out
, buildings; good orchard; 100 acres in
j pasture; improvements good; located
3 miles from Newark; a line stock
farm. Trice live thousand dollars.
45. 2 room house and 1 acre land in
| north cage of city, at a bargain.
40. 3 acres nice residence property
in north edge of city: beautiful loca
1 tion, and genuine bargain.
4s. so acres in the manganese belt,
: 2 miles northwest of Cushman;bealthy
location; springs in abbudance.
49. 40 acres timbered land 8 miles
north of Batesville in the manganese
belt; soil rich from mineral.
50. 2 acres tine residence property
in north part of town; 4 blocks from
school building; line orchard of about
75 bearing trees; nice location.
52. 14O0 acres tine river bottom land
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on Black river, lying on both sides ol
railroad; over 200 acres in cultivation;
400 acres in pasture; good timber, 3
miles river front, railroad station and
switch on place, all good farming land
and has natural drainage, tine for cot
ton, and would make as tine stock
farm as any of its size in the South.
52. 240 acres tine land in the famous
! Big Bottom country, half mile from
Newark; makes a hale of cotton and
| 00 to 100 bushels cor n per acre; 25 acres
i in alfalfa yielding 7 to 8 tons per acre
every year.
Craig & Henderson,
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KANSAS CITY TO THE GULF
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PASvSING THROUGH A GREATER DIVERSITY OF
CLIMATE, SOIL AND RESOURCE THAN ANY OTHER
RAILWAY IN THE WORLD, FOR ITS LENGTH
Along its lino are the finest lands, suited for growing small grain, corn, flax,
cotton ; for o immerrial apple and pea .1 orchards, lor other fruits and ber
ries . for commercial canieloupe, potato, torpato and general truck farms;
for sugar cane and rice cultivation ; for merchantable timber; for raising
horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep poultry and Angora goats.
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