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his neighbor who made a little on his crop, his 

 banker, his merchant, his friends in other lines of 

 work, are injured as well. But the result is even 

 more far-reaching; the manufacturers who make 

 the cotton farmer's clothing, his tools and imple- 

 ments, who supply him with all the necessities, 

 suffer as well. The farmer falls down, and the 

 rest come tumbling after. 



HELP IN THE DIRECTION OF ORGANIZATION 



It is not wrong to organize. The principle is 

 commercially and morally correct. Organization 

 is helpfulness. Cotton farmers need the spirit of 

 helpfulness. They will profit by it as much as any 

 class, for it will bring a new meaning to cotton pro- 

 duction; it will secure, as it is doing now, reasonable 

 rewards for the effort expended ; a fuller and better 

 life will follow for the home on the cotton farm. 



Organization may direct itself along many lines ; 

 it will look to the stability of the home market; it 

 will seek for new markets; it will regulate supply 

 in accordance with legitimate demands; it will 

 seek to lower the cost of production so as to increase 

 the margin of profit. All these things come with 

 rightly managed organization. 



HOW THE FARMER MARKETS HIS CROP 



Cotton is sold both in the bale and as seed cotton, 

 although the first named method is the rule. It is 

 the most desirable and satisfactory plan, since it 

 necessarily leaves the seed with the farmer to whose 

 soil it rightly belongs. While it is true that if cot- 

 ton lint sells for ten cents per pound, it is easy to 

 calculate its worth in seed cotton, still this can be 



