Agricultural Bulletin. J
It is generally conceeded indeed,
I have never heard it contradicted
that a five million bale crop of cotton
will bring as much money as a ten
million bale crop. If this is so, and I
believe it lo be true, then there is
decidedly more money to the pro
ducers in the small crop than the full
one ; for the full crop will cost at
least double as much to produce and
fully double as much to gather. The
1 0,000,000 bale crop will cost at
least $100,000,000 more money than
the 5,000,000 bale crop, and the
latter crop will bring as much money
as the full crop. In other words, in
growing a lull crop of cotton the pro
ducers will throw away at least
$100,000,000 in money, and in grow
ing the small crop they will save at
least $100,000,000 from the fact that
it will have cost them much less than
the other, and the producers will
receive as much money for it as for the
full crop, and more, for there will be
$100,000,000 in excess in hands of
producers, and it will really be better
for them to make the five million bale
crop and do nothing after, than to
make a ten million bale crop, for they
will be more than $100,000,000 better
off with the small crop and not labor
more than half as much. I don't
believe I have overdrawn the picture ;
if I have not, will it not be the ut
most lolly in lhe cotton growers of the
South to undertake to produce a full
crop of cotton ? Already cotton has
declined in price several points in
expectation of a heavy crop being
planted.
