COTTON 
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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. 
