The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-11
A Civil Service Tsst.

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A North Carolina farmer propounds
the searching questions below to his
brother farmers in the "Tar Heel
State" They will be found applicable
to all sections Of the country. The
questions get right down to the milk
in the cocoa nut.
! Do you know that the farmers OF
North Carolina spent over sS,0O0,OOo
this year for fertilizers for cotton and
tobacco?
Do you suppose they will be able to
get enough extra for the crops to pay
the bill?
Do you know that more than s., ,OOO,.
600 worth Of fertilizing material has
been washed away this rainy season
from your barnyards because Of neg
lect in looking after your homemade
fertilizers?
Do you suppose that the land of
North Carolina is a dollars worth
better off because Of the 3,000, 900 spent
for fertilizers for sale crops?
"Don't you know that field you are
''resting," as you suppose, by allowing
it to grow upin weeds, is ripening a lot
Of seeds and making more nut grass
roots to bother you next year?
Don't you know that if you had sown
that field in peas you would now have
a great crop Of peavine hay to cut and
feed this winter?
Don't you know that the feeding of
that hay would bring you your money
back in the animals fed, and leave you
lot Of manure that will pay you bet
ter than the bought mixtures?
Don't you know that crimson clover
seed scattered on this pea stubble will
give you growth 70 turn under next
spring that would give you more corn,
cotton and tobacco than five times its
cost spent for fertilizers?
Don't you know that the constant
culture Of the soil in cotton, gear after
year, with little fertilizer to make
crop, is making your land poorer al
the time?
Don't you know that whatever
makes your land poorer, makes you
poorer also?
Did you ever hear of a farmer who
got rich by buying fertilizers merely to
raise cotton with? --
Did you ever know farmer who
made his land rich by an intelligent
course of cultivation who did not get
"well off, as fast az his farm did?
DID you ever know cow-peas or rlc.
yer to bring q man in debt to COM
missicn merchant?
Did you ever know homemade ma.
nure to fail 20 improve your land?
Do you know of farmer who has
too much oft?
Did you eve. know COW injured by
a comfortable stable and plenty of hay:
Did you ever know man to get rich
in any business who did not study it,
and have faith in it, and give his whole
time and energy to it?
Don't you know that the biggest tex
the farmers of North Carolina pay to-
| day is the fertilizer bill, the waste of
homemade manure, end the washing
away Of fertilizers from fields kept bare
of clover Or grass?
Don't you suppose that somebody,
somewhere, makes a profit in raising
the pork you send money to Chicago
for, out Of your cotton crop?
Don't you suppose somebody, some
where, makes living and perhaps
| grows rich, growing the wheat your
| flour is made OF, which you buy out of
your cotton crop?
Don't you suppose that somebody,
| somewhere, makes money by raising
the beeves which the butchers in North
Carolina towns have to send to Rich
mond to buy?
Dou't you know that you could raise
all these things here, and, in raising
them, raise more cotton on few acres
than you now do on many?
Do you see how high prices are going
to benefit the farmer who. has bread,
meat and manure to buy and only one
thing to sell?
With cotton low down and wheat
high, how is the man helped who
raises no wheat?
What if butter isawfully high-priced
in our towns, while our farmers have
no COWS, or nothing to feed them on il
they have, while somebody, some
where e,se, males money by teeding
cows and shippl1g butter South?
If fyou know all these things, don't
you see that bad farming has more to
do with farmers troubles than any
thing else he has to endure, and there