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FARM CROPS 



from one to two, or three bales an acre. This 

 is the practical way to increase the supply of cotton. 

 It is not to scramble for more acres, but for more 

 pounds to the acre. At the prices that have pre- 

 vailed during the past few years cotton farming is 

 profitable. At the prices that prevailed a decade 



or so back cotton 

 farming, as every 

 man who has 

 grown it knows, 

 was not then a 

 profitable enter- 

 prise nor will it be 

 now any more so 

 than wheat at 50 or 

 60 cents a bushel 

 or milk at 2 or 3 

 cents a quart. 



South Will Hold 

 Cotton Monopoly.-- 

 Some folks are dis- 

 turbed about the 

 old world lands that 

 may be induced to 

 wed with cotton. 

 Who knows? 

 While it is possible 

 for new cotton 



growing sections to be developed, the fact still re- 

 mains that now, and in all time to come the South- 

 ern states will control cotton production and hold 

 fast to the monopoly. Cotton farmers do not need 

 to disturb themselves about what the future will 

 bring forth. Certainly, any attempt to flood the 

 market with cheap cotton in order to keep other 



COTTON BOLL 



The boll has just opened. The 

 white fiber is easily detached from 

 it. Picking cotton consists of pull- 

 ing this white fiber from the open 

 bolls. 



