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other farming enterprises as well as cotton. But 

 they are separate and distinct in themselves. If 

 he can so connect them with his cotton enterprise 

 that these and cotton work to advantage so that 

 the cost of production is lessened, that is his right 

 and to his credit as a business man. But cotton 

 farming must stand on its own feet and not exist 

 at the expense of the cow or the pig. You may be 

 sure, in case you think you are producing cotton 

 very cheaply, that the tenant, or cord wood, or hay, 

 the steer, or the old hen, one or all, are contributing 

 very materially to the pocket that pays the cotton 

 bills. 



RELATION OF COST TO SELLING PRICE 



Naturally some farms produce cotton more cheap- 

 ly than do others. On a basis of cost, a reasonable 

 selling price on the average is ten cents per pound ; 

 it is mere wages when below that. Like other prod- 

 ucts, cotton sells in the face of supply and demand. 

 When earnestly wanted the farmer's accumulative 

 gain is greater, but not out of the range of the very 

 supplies he constantly purchases. 



