The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-05-01
SOME SIMPLE SUGGESTIONS
AS Remedial Agents in the Present Season
of Agricultural Depression.

SOIUE DIV -
AS Remedial Agents In the Present season
of Agricultural Depression.
The great depression in agriculture
will naturally force farmers to seek a
swift and practical remedy. for q
change in some way must be made and
made right now, and it must be one for
the better.
At this stage of the proceedings
plenty Of advice is at hand from all
sides as to what is best to be done, but
on sober reflection it will be seen that
no infexible rule can be given that will
bring relief.
judgement and common Z must
come to the relief of the farmers in ad-
using this matter. 1t is a problem
he must solve himself from circum-
stances and surrounding conditions.
No two farms in the United States
will admit of the same management,
and success depends on the adjusting
market cocditions. individual circum-
tances, and the cultivation Of such
crops as the farm favors in production.
While home supplies should be the
watch word. judgment and common
sense must limit them to a practical
point.
Where the farm favors its production,
corn should be first on the list, as
plenty of corr gives plenty of bread,
meat, lard, chickens, eggs. milk, but
ter. seven of the ver.- necessities OF
life. Yet a farm may favor the growth
of potatoes to such an extent as to
make it wise to adopt this crop instead
of O to supply, to the ~prao&ical limit,
the same necessities. This is likely to
be the condition in many cases.
A farm may favor the culture OF
vegetables to the highest degree. and
if the market does not, TO raise any
above a bountiful home supply would
be a failure, and so the market might
favor vegetables. and if the farm does
not, to raise them would be a waste OF
time. Chickens, eggs, vegetables, and
such things will be q failure without
a market.
Again, the farm aud market might
favor one special crop to the exclusion
of all others. A single row OF vegeta-
bles in some places will pay more than
any acre of wheat, and an acre OF
wheat in some places will pay nor
than an acre of vegetables.
With this same condition running
throughout every department OF ag-l-
culture, who can give the relief remedy
but the farmer himself? No n knows
his circumstances, his natural farm ad-
vantages, market conditions, and now
can they advise him in the change hes
bound to make rightnow or be ruined:
In the light of these facts. no infexlble
rule of relief can be given, unless the
advisor is familiar with the conditions
that makes his plans necessary.
Every farmer must have a money
o and every farm is suited TO the
fullest extent to Il money crop. steep
hillsides twentvniics[:oina market are
profitable for grape Mi1ea made lnto
wine, because it i, compassionate u
the cost of marAetin:: is small. Also
dried pepper. dried green peas, sage,
navy beans. white beansa and onions can
be hauled a long distance. Each would
be a paying money crop, and the de-
mand for them is good enough TO make
It safe to raise them.
Chickens and eggs get higher every
GEAR, although the United States pro-
duces 5000, 900, 900 worth Of them an
nuallv. Butter is as high as it was
when cotton was ten cents, and is al
WAYS in demand. Broom-corn and pop
o prices are always good. Castor
beans pay a fine profit.
With these facts before us, let every
farmer weigh every advantage that
markets and farm conditions afford him
and adjust his plans from them.
A little brains put on the marketno
will bring a handsome price, for the
time has come when brains only will
make farming pay.
AS stated above, every farm in the
United States is suitable for one pay
ing, profitable money crop; suitable
from the fact that the market is favor
able as well as the farm, if it can only
be located, and every farm is suitable
for tie raising Of the home supplies to
a large extent. Let farmers take our
age. The remedy is in their own
hands. When paying o are raised
every year why not raise some OF
them ?
Cotton conventiopsand organizations
make matters worse. They never can
bring relief, as time and experience has
proven.
Brains at the head and the farmer
has a paying money crop and crops to
supply home consumption. These mat
tiers he must arrange himself If success
ever crowns his labors.-Cor. Texas
Farm and Ranch.