The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1897 Page: 15 of 16
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COUNTY ALLIANCE MEETINGS.
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Van Zandt county with Cross Roads
Alance, five miles north of Edgewood,
October 14. —W. ^K. j Furrh, secretary,
Wills Point, Tex. cjüQ
Hood county with Asberry Alliance,
five miles northwest of Tolar, Oct 8.—
B. T. Sargent, Sec. ^
Erath county with Union Alliance at
Scarbrough school house, Oct 8.—L.
Browner, Pres.; M. W. Birdwell, Sec.,
Huckaby, Tex.
9 I Johnson county with Cranford Alli-
ance, at Alvarado, Oct 16.—J. J.j Rog-
ers, Pres.
Freestone county with Mustang Alli-
ance, six miles southwest of Luna.
Daisie Wright, Sec.
Collin County with Cedar Alliance,
four miles from Ment.
W. T. Price. Sec.
Farmersville, Tex.
Comanche County with Turkey Creek
Allience, 14 miles north of Comanche,
Ootober 14. M. W. McDonald, Sec.
Comanche.
Money Saved by Holding Cotton.
Our correspondent from Lamar makes
the following timely suggestions to cotton
producers in Texas, which are worthy of
consideration.
The cotton producers of the South, in
their efforts to unload the crop as fast as
it could be picked and ginned, have con-
tributed seven dollars and a half per bale
to manufacturers and speculators for
carrying it Cotton at 8 cents in New
York the 1st of September was then too
low for the producer to get any profit out
of it. The 1st of October the price in
New York was 6% cents, notwithstand-
ing the visible supply of cotton
was 300,000 bales less than 1st Septem-
ber, 1896. and during September that
visible shortage increased to ^641,000
bales. Had the cotton producers of the
South parted with their cotton as slow as
possible, instead of as fast as they could,
the price the first of October in New
York would have been nearer 9^c than
6}4c.
If profit in cotton production ever
comes to the American cotton producer
again, it will be when they have
learned, that when they unload the
crop, or the larger portion of it during
the first two or three months of the sea-
son that they have to pay the expense of
parrying it to somebody else, who takes
it out of the price they get
Before the war, and a few years after
the war, a majority of farmers picked
their crops and held them on the farm in
the seed before they hauled it to the gins.
Then they got 10 per cent more in the
weight of lint for a given amount of seed
cotton than they get now by putting
through the gin a fast as picked, and the
Jint was worth an eighth inore to the
manufacturer than now. It is not the
prospect of an over supply of cotton that
caused the decline 7 per cent the 1st
month of this season. Neither was the
buyers nor the manufacturers responsible
for it 'Tis true that all, or pearly all,
buyers at interior railroad towns sell short
and long to fill contracts. But he would
not sell short if he didn't know that the
farmer was going to commence unload-
ing his crop as fast as weather conditions
would permit, regardless of price. They,
the buyer, have to unload as fast as pos-
sible) because they can't carry the cotton.
Hence the buyers throughout the South,
flood the mills with offers of cotton. The
manufacturer knows the farmers are un-
loading, and if he decides to t*ke more
cotton than his immediate necessities de-
mand, he simply offers less and less, and
makes some one else pay the expense of
carrying his year's supply."
Several Texas farmers have written
detailed statements to farm papers show-
ing that they made more clear money out
of five acres of blackberry bushes than
out of twenty acres of cotton. There is
an unlimited market in Texas for black-
berry jam and preserves.
Other farmers have written statements
of fact showing that by a system of green
pastures they have made more mon*v
out of hogs on 10 acres than out of cot
ton on 30 acres. Texas packeries are
taking all the Texas hogs offered. This
is the time to set out blackberry . bushes
and plant wheat or rye for wintering hogs.
Call this matter up at the next meeting
of your school house club. There is a
strong home market for these products.
What
mother
Out Into the Darkness.
would turn her youn$
daughter o 111
alone unpro-
tected into the
stormy night?
Yet many loving
mothers allow
their daughters,
who are just com-
ing into the time
of womanhood,
to proceed with-
out proper care
and advice all un-
protected and
alone into the
perils of this crit-
ical period.
Young women
at this time often
suffer from irreg
ularity and weak-
ness which may
afterwards d e
velop into dan-
gerous disease
and fill their
whole lives with
wretchedness.
It is a mother's
duty not to pass over such matters in
silence, but to promote her daughter's
womanly health and regularity by everv
reasonable means.
These delicate ailments are easily over-
come in their early stages by judicious self
treatment without any need of the obnox-
ious examinations which doctors uniformly
insist upon. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion is a positive specific for all diseases of
the feminine organism.
It restores perfect health and regularity
to the special functions, and vital vigor to
the nerve-centres. It is the only medicine
of its kind devised for this one purpose by
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During nearly 30 ye
ing physician of the
Surgical Institute, of
. — purpose
aneducated, experienced physician.
~ years as chief consult-
óle Invalids' Hotel and
. of Buffalo, N. Y., Dr.
Pierce has acquired an enviable reputation.
His medicines are everywhere recognized
as standard remedies. His "Golden Med-
ical Discovery" alternated with the "Fa-
vorite Prescription " constitutes a thorough
and scientific coarse of treatment for weak
and impoverished conditions of the blood.
A headache is a symptom of constipation.
Dr. Pierae's Pleasant Pellets cure constipa-
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The best testimonial of its worth that we can offer is that
•••Over 2,000 Have Been Sold*..
by as la the American Public, and out of this large number we have
never received a single complaint We frequently get unsolicited
testimonials from those who purchased when we first offered them
for sale seven yean ago.
But don't think that because we make you an astonishingly low price
on the machine, it is no better than the clumsy "rat traps" sold by
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The Machine is artistically proportioned, its ornamentation is very at-
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WARRANTY—We furnish with ev-
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1897, newspaper, October 14, 1897; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185730/m1/15/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .