The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12

ed money crop, for cotton is
anything but a money crop. The
Of this logic is, we
think, the only salvation for the
farmers of this State.
Muscle and Brains Beth.
The American Farmer says:
The time has passed for farm
ers TO depend on muscle and
hard labor alone. They must
use their brains as we'll as hands.
They must do more thinking
and planning if they desire to
receive the best results. The
lawyer studies law. The doctor
medicine. The merchant must
study commerce, the laws OF
supply and demand, and the
banker must acquaint himself
with the principles and details
of finances. Just so the farmer
must study farming. The expe-
riments of last year. in crop
raising aud breeding must be
remembered and put to practi-
cal use this year. Not only his
own experience but that OF his
co-laborers should be his to
profit by. Farming is a science,
and there are many new things
to learn in it yet; and the best
and cheapest way to learn those
things is by study Take agri-
cultural pap ers, read in their
columns the experiences and OBJ
servations of others and avail
yourself OF the many useful
hints and suggestions.
We have an article on "Agri-
cultural Education" in another
column, to which we can appro-
priately call your special and
thoughtful attention after read
ing the ABOVE.
Agricultural Fairs----Their Educational
Value.
! DR.. r. G. Elzey, writing to the
National Economist, claims that
even the worst fairs do a great
deal IF good. We give part of
i. his article below
The season of agricultural
, fairs is at hand, and it is to be
hoped these displays will be SC
managed as to present their OBJ
iect-lessons in the most instruc
: tive manner before the public
eye. At perhaps the worst fail
ever seen there were doubt
: less many who found precisel,
what they wanted to see, an6
8 took home with them valuable
Y information for future applica
ton in their ordinary farm prac
!, tice. Perhaps some machine
" was seen at work and explained
0 to some inquirer who afterward
l.. adopted it, saving both none!
+ and labor by it's use. In thi
y department alone the writer
:. who has paid attention to th'
L subject, believes that a mos
s useful and important education
# al work has been done. In TIN
Y matter also Of the introduction
d of improved breeds of live-stocb
q the agency of the fairs has beel
. prime factor. In the depart
/ ment Of household economic
also progress has been greatl
helped. There is no doubt tha
= rural life has been rendered NOR
u successful and attractive in
Z great variety of ways. The fas
,s horse business has not by an
% manner of means been the bi
"a end of the show to the though
full and the wise. 1t is to b
IL greatly hoped that the display
(. will come to be more and moi
rs arranged with a view to the
r. educational value. The valu
RI of that sort of education whic
the wisest and most experience
. always obtain by contact wit
o. their fellows, is not uncerest
IL mated; the value of pleasure
as pleasure is not underestimate
10 nor is and disposition here il
. dulged to censure the mere
= attractive features Of the fai
TX Gate money is the one tbiI
n needful foI. holding the fair
I'd all. Only make the displa
q more distinctly with a view
their educational value.
as While it is not the best pl'
to keep the hogs confined, y
sometimes it is unavoidab
lis When this is the case it is necs
in sary to see that they are VI
if supplied with green feed. VIII
'se they can be had without t
ed much expense, ground oats is o
nd of the very best feeds for you
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