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SHARES SEASON’S
CROP LOSSES
Landlord Divides The Loss Sus
tained by The Renter From
The Effects of the Drouth
And War.
Col. V. Y. Cook, one of the
largest land holders of Independ
ence county, agreed on last Wed
nesday to put the rent on his
|: farm half, thereby relieving
\ the farmer of some of the bur
den brought about by the
drm th and the low prices of
cotton, caused by the European
war, saying:
“This is a calamity, the re
sponsibility for which rests on
neither the farmer nor the land
lord, and should be borne by
both of them ”
I How many Mr, Cook’s will
there prove to be in this (Jack
son) county?
f Tf the farmer ever needed
help it seems to be right now.
He is without feed for stock;
stock are mortgaged to the bank
er or merchant, who will be forc
ed to take them to satisfy his
account, and the crop must go
to pay the rent, consequently
the farmer is left without sus
tenance or any means by which
he can provide for his family.
That the farmer has done his
duty, no one will deny. Yet he
has one-third to one-half of a
normal crop, without price, and
where a price is offered, it is a
bout one-half of the average,
for the past few years, which of
course, forces the admission
that the crop will not pay the
rent, and leave anything to ap
ply on his account. This being
the condition of affairs, we ask,
how can we be expected to cul
tivate the lands next year with
out feed, without teams, with
out money or provisions, and in
debt to begin ?
This is an unavoidable calami
ty, and should not be borne by
the farmer alone ,and to force
him to do so, means that he will
he unable to meet his accounts
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in full; means that he must put
his little children to bed hungry;
means that he, and his entire
family must face the bleak
winds of winter doing any kind
of drudgery they are able to ob
tain, in order to keep the wolf
from the door. It also means
that thousands of acres of land
that is now in cultivation must
lay out next year, or the farmer
sell himself and family for he
next ten years to satisfy ac
counts piled up on him by the
happening of something that
was absolutely beyond his con
trol.
We admit that the landlord is
not responsible for this short
crop, or low price, but he is as
much responsible as the ten
jant, and in justice to both par
ties is it not right that both
should carry the Jjurden? Of
course there is a movement on
foot to store the cotton for bet
ter prices which they claim will
help the producer, but I fear
they are mistaken. j
In the first place, let’s figure
the cotton at a price of seven
cents; now we hold it until June
for ten cents. This means $15
profit on a bale of cotton, but
from October 1st to June 1st is
8 months. Now then, we must
pay storage on this cotton. We
must pay insurance; we must
pay interest on our accounts— j
all until next June—and then sell
for a fifteen dollar profit, pro
vided the war is over, which I
have serious doubts of. The dif
ference between what the stor- j
age, the insurance, the loss in !
weight and the interest on our i
account would amout to, and the !
$15 profit would be the amount I
profit for us, or the amount of
loss wre had sustained, in the op-1
eration. I ask you, brother far-1
iner, does this look li) ■ a profit- j
able proposition ? i
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Some may say that the farmer
is to blame for planting his en- |
tire crop to cotton, or the princi
pal part of it; I would ask, wrhat
other recourse has he got? The
landlord demands his rents in (
money and before the merchant (
gets his account, who must have ,
his in. cash, and at the earliest
possibility, making his notes
due about November the first;.
Now then, please advise us
w'hat to plant besides “King’
Cotton”, that wre may be able to 1
meet these accounts when due.1
There is no market here for the ^
suprlus corn we raise except our J
local market. There is no wheat'
market here, and if there wras, '
how much wheat do you suppose
this country on an average would
produce, and besides, is not the
Avheat market, as a rule, very
well supplied : l nere is no
market for potatoes. There is
no market for melons, or in fact,
anything but cotton, under the
existing conditions. Now, if
the landlord will agree to take a
part of any crop that we may
raise for rent, then we can quit
planting cotton so extensively,
and raise something to live on,
and thereby become able to de
velop the raising of live stock in
this country.
But as long as the farmer
must pay all of his rents in
cash, regardless of calamities,
just that long cotton wTill be king
and the farmer a servant of
servants- Will you help us Mr.
Landlord to quit the culture of
the one product that keeps us
subject to Europe’s command?
Will you be a Col. Cook?
W K..Tennyson.
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Lumber Sawed Or For Sale.
Am now operating saw mill at
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trade from stock on hand.—R.
D. Wilmans, Diaz, Ark. 27btf.
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Another Appeal For Hodgins.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 14.—It is
probable that an appeal will be
taken to the supreme court in
a final effort to save the life of
Arthur Hodgins, the young man
convicted of murdering Con
stable Morgan Gardner at Ami
ty, about a year ago. Hodgins
was recently given a trial at
Arkadelphia to pass upon his
sanity, and after hearing evi
dence from alienists, the jury
rendered a verdict showing
Hodgins not to be insane, but
mentally undeveloped. This will
not save his life, for it did not
prove him to be insane when the
crime was committed.
Grover C. Owen made the plea
for Hodgins In his first appeal,
but is no longer connected with
the case. Hodgins is still in the
Clarke county jail, but will prob
ably soon be returned to the
penitentiary to remain until his
case is finally disposed of- Hod
gins is the youth who murdered
the officerr who was taking him
to jail to await a trial on a trivial
charge. Efforts have been made
to show that he has been insane
since childhood.
Army Worm Played No Favor
ites.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept- 14.— The
work of the army worm in Ark
ansas has been complete within
the past ten days. In that short
time it has traversed the en
tire state, leaving a statewide
path behind it in Mississippi and
Oklahoma as well. Ten days
ago the worm had done little
damage except in a few isolated
sections. Then, as if by magic,
the green pests began their work
in earnest and now the entire
cotton acreage of Arkansas pre
sets a sad sight. There is not
a leaf upon the cotton, and the
entire top crop has gone along
with the leaves. The worm has
created great havoc, and the
farmer, who is receiving the
bottom price for what he did
raise, suffers a further loss.
The Little Rock corespondent
of the Independent has been in
all sections of the state in the
past two weeks, and in three
days’ time had traveled from
the western to the eastern bor
der, and from the Missouri line
to Texarkana, and in those three
days the work seems to have
been done by the worms.
The correspondent was in
formed at Helena by a leading
citizen who had just returned
from Chicago, where he disquss
ed the cotton situation with
prominent financiers, that these
financiers were advising their
clients to put all their ready
money into cotton at 8 and 10
cents per pound. They advo
cated the purchase of the actual
cotton, and the storing of it un
til the price turns upward. These
same financiers are advising
their clients to refuse any stocks
sr investments because of the
conditions created by the Euro
pean war.
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Experience.
W. B. Jurney, East Newport,
says: “I was miserable and I
know that my kidneys were af
fected from the trouble I was
having w'ith the kidney secre
tions- Sharp, cutting pains
iarted across my back and I
know that my condition was se
rious. I lost strength and vital
ity. I improved as soon as I
took Doan’s Kidney Pills and a
few boxes practically cured me.”
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