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

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 $3,000,0O0
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., &C.,
900 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 dollars worth
better off because of the $1,000, 900 spent
for fertilizers for sale crops?
"Don't you know that field you are
resting" as you suppose, by allowing
it to grow up in 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 pesvine 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
a 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, year after
year, with q little fertilizer to make
crop, is making your land poorer all
the time?
Don't you know that whatever
makes your. Land pc orer, makes you
poorer also?.
Did you ever hear of q farmer who
got rich o5 buying fertilizers merely TO
raise cotton with?
Did you ever know q farmer who
made his land rich by an intelligent
course of cultivation who did not get
"wen off, as fast as his farm did?
Did you ever know cow-peas or clo-
yer to bring man in debt to com.
mission merchant?
Did you ever know homemade ma.
nure to fail to improve your land?
Do you know of a farmer who has
too much oft?
Did you ever know COW injured By
q comfortable stable and plenty of hay3
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 tax
the farmers of North Carolina pay to-
day Is the fertilizer bill, the waste. Of
homemade manure, and the washing
away of fertilizers from fields kept bare
of clover or grass?
Don't you suppose that somebody,
somewhere, makes profit in raising
the pork you send money to Chicago
for, out Of your cotton crop?
Don't you suppose somebody, some
where, makes a living and perhaps
grows rich, growing the wheat your
-four is made Of, which you buy out OF
your cotton crep?
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 kaow 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 is awfully high-priced
in our towns, while our farmers have
no COWS, or nothing to feed them on II
they have, while somebody. some
where else, makes money by feeding
cows and shipping butter South?
If gu know all these things, don't
you 81 that bad farming has more to
de, with farmers troubles than any
thing else he has to endure, and there