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Most Southern cotton farmers will, hitch "Jude" and "Beck" to a riding "planter" equipped with a 12 in. "middle buster" and a seedbox filled with Maize or Kaffir, "gee" and "haw" aforesaid mules into their accustomed places between the rows, and at a single operation plow up the government's row of cotton and reseed the row with a feed crop...
...were to be destroyed under the Domestic Allotment Plan. That was accomplished in the face of a tempting boom in cotton prices after patriotic exhortations had been sent out to back up the juicy bait of $100,000,000 in quick cash (TIME, July 24). Last week John Cotton Planter thought of virtue doubly rewarded as commodity prices had a dizzy tumble (see p. 45)-and as rosy talk of salvaging another $100,000,000 came from Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture J. C. Holton, who had hot information from Mississippi's State Chemist W. F. Hand...
...myself am one of those who as a planter of cotton has suffered from the absurdly low prices of the past few years," said Farmer Roosevelt, referring to small tenant plantings in past years on his farm near Warm Springs, Ga. (The President has no cotton this year.) "What I am concerned about, and what every other cotton grower ought to think about, is the price of cotton next year if cotton acreage is not reduced...
...directed by a younger woman. Manhattan's Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mrs. Hammond has taken 157 Berry Pilgrims to Georgia, to interest them in giving money and show them "the greatest humanitarian project being carried out in America." In 1901 Martha McChesney Berry, daughter of a socialite Georgia planter, casually began holding Sunday School for mountain children, in a log cabin on her father's estate near Rome. Soon her Sunday School overflowed; she founded another in nearby 'Possum Trot. Next year Miss Berry opened day schools, then a boarding school for boys, at $100 a year...
Prong No. 3 was welded on to the pitchfork by South Carolina's cotton-minded Smith who devised a price-upping scheme especially for cotton planters. Under it Secretary Wallace takes control of 2,144,937 bales of stabilization cotton from the old Farm Board. John Planter, who normally raises 90 bales of cotton, steps up and promises to raise only 60 this year. Secretary Wallace gives him an option on 30 bales of Government cotton at 6? per lb., the current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed...