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76TH
YEAR.
iHe si.
CnOLIX AVIS
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liay
26th 1917
at
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der the Act ot March
3.
1874.
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ters of general
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The editor cannol
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i
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dents nor does
he necessarilye l’Ldorse them
’
THE COITON CRISIS.
:
With-but
a
few
intervening
vears
to
‘
dull the
nemories
of
the
price
disaster
at
the
outbreak
of
the
war
and
the
|
scourge
of
the
boll
weevil,
Southern
|
cotton
growers
face
today
what
com-
|
petent
observers
estimate
at
more
than
|
a
billion doilars
loss
as
the
vesult
of
|
rhe
market collapse.
[t
is decired
the
|
cost
of
producing
the
1920
er:p
was
not
less
than thirty
five
cents
a pound.
Texas
officials
put
the
figure
for
that
state
at forty
six
cents;
vorth
Carolina
as
thirty
one.
In
late
December
the
New
York
price
was
a
fraction
above
fifteen
cents
a pound,
but
itis reported
|
from parts of the South
that, even
at
this
|
ficure,
there
were
no buyers.
;
As
a
measure
of
limmediate
relief
|
progressive
leaders
of
the
Souh
ave
|
bending
all
their
epergies
toward
1
|
suring
a gradual marketing
of the
crop.
|
Ir
is
obvious
that
2
wholesale
dump-
|
ing of
it
would
be
certain
further
ro
|
dapress
prices.
!
But
these
same
le
ders
declare
that
|
no matter
how
successful,
such
anex-
|
pedient
will ny touch
the
South’s
vital
|
problem
that
is,
putting
the
growing
of cotton
on
a
cash
instead
of
a credit
hasis.
Under
the old
system,
the
far-
mer
came
(o
harvest
time
heavily
in
debt
for
feed,
food
and
supplies.
He
|
was forced
to sell
his
erop
at
once,
us-
ually taking
the
lowest
price
for
it
Other
sections
of
the
country
have
come
to grief
by
following a
one-crop;
system;
they
have
retrieved
their for-
tunes by turning
to
good
live stock and
home-grown
food
and
feed.
The
slo-
gan
is
that
the
Southem
farm
must
be made
self sustaining.
CHRISTIANSIED.
V.L. 18
2~
®WUESI AY
llst
FEBRUIARY
19:'.
Cotton
wili
remain
the
South’s great
cash
crop.
Ihd
soik
the
clitnate,
the
skili
acquired
by .gencretions
o 6 ¢X-
perience
make
this
certain.
But
cotion
18
a world
erop:
its
grower
caunit
be
sadrely
procected
against
great
fluetua-
tions
in
price,
though
much
may
be
done
to stabilize
the
market.
The
far-
metr's
best
ho
¢
15
!0
come
to ha:vest
time
with
several
eggs
in
his
basket
most
of
all
wiihout
a
crushing -load
of
debr.
it eomiorts
hitle
the
man
in troubie
to say
ihat good often
comes
from
scem-
ing
disaster,
but
Uhe
Country
Gentle-
man nop2s
(nac
ouc of the
present
acuic
sicuation
inav
arise
a
sysiem
o.
farm
man .ze.n:ant
sacp
as
‘the
South'’s
tinou-
ghiful
leaders
have
been
urging
for
decxdes,
which
alone
will
make
1t
possible
to
realize
ali
the
agricultuzal
possibilities
of
that
great
region.—The
Country Gentleman.
P
3
e
4
@
üblicaton.
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nereby
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to
public
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Tax
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Des-
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Incoms
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Office,
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do
so
by
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of
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Ordinance
shall
be
liable
to
a
penalty
of
not
less
thar
Francs
100.00
nor
more
than
Franes
5,000.00.
Government
of the Virgin Islands
of
the United
States,
St. Croix,
January
20
1921
C.
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