Archive image from page 73 of David Dickson's system of farming. David Dickson's system of farming daviddicksonssys00dick Year: 1906 72 DICKSON'S SYSTEM OF FARMING. views. The cotton plailt is a great power for good, and a rich legacy for us. How to mal<e the most of it should be serious study and action of all. This is the remedy: Do not let it come below twenty cents, and, if possible, keep it up to twenty-five cents. I do not think it to our inter- est to carry it beyond that price. How is this to be done? Make all your sup- plies at home, and you will get the same amount of money for t
Archive image from page 73 of David Dickson's system of farming. David Dickson's system of farming daviddicksonssys00dick Year: 1906 72 DICKSON'S SYSTEM OF FARMING. views. The cotton plailt is a great power for good, and a rich legacy for us. How to mal<e the most of it should be serious study and action of all. This is the remedy: Do not let it come below twenty cents, and, if possible, keep it up to twenty-five cents. I do not think it to our inter- est to carry it beyond that price. How is this to be done? Make all your sup- plies at home, and you will get the same amount of money for the bal- ance of the labor that you would get for the whole, devoted to cotton. You would have less use for money and more to put in machinery; and hav- ing more resources, you would suffer less in any panic. Money will go where it can buy most, and center where it is worth the least rate of interest. A man hav- ing money in Europe, where it is worth only three per cent., will come here for securities at five and six per cent. Continued for years, it centers all dividends to that point on securi- ties. Some complain that labor is scarce, and a few get all; but they are better off under a scarce system than they would be under an abundant supply. This labor would be worth double; whereas, if there was an abundance of labor, it would produce cheap exports. In this case, none but large and skill- ful capitalists could work and feed the labor, and it would be the means of centering capital in a few hands. A man of capital and skill could work labor at a profit, when a small capi- tal and less skill would lose money. What now prevents the land from get- ting into a few hands but the fear and uncertainty of getting labor? I will venture my advice: Hold on to your land; plough deep; manure; rest; improve your homes; make your supplies; save money to invest; and finally, when called from the world, leave your land to your children, that it may support them and their chil- dren, as it di
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