The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
TRAINED MEN ARE NEEDED
No Grander Occupation and None Of
fering Higher Reward.
GLANCE AT FARMER coTroh's METHODS
The Run Down Condition Of Nine Tenths Of Our
Farms Shows the Need Of Such Train
ing as Agricultural COL
leges Afford.


when l tell you that nearly every farm
or plantation in North Carolina is post
ed" with the sign on which the above
want is displayed? One may say:
Why | have seen one hundred farms this
fall, ard not one of them has this sign
up. But l say: Come with me, friends
and let us see." Let us start at neigh
Dor Cotton's plantation It's a LOO acre
farm and he planted 800 acres to cotton
and his tenants brought him in $500 clear
money from which to pay taxes, keep up
and two children to school, This condi-
ton says plainly: Here is "a Farmer
Wanted who will reorganize the bust
ness, SOW 300 acres of rye at last working
of cotton, buy 500 sheep, pasture them on
the rye all winter and feed them at nights
in barn on cotton seed and roughness;
compost their manure with an hundred
tons of much, treated with 100 bushels
of quick lime; twenty five tons of leaf
mould that has been treated with 5000
worth of phosphate and potash, all COM
it applied in the spring with cotton seed
on half the 300 acres and the other half
with seed corn on the remaining half of
the old cotton field All cultivated nice
ly these crops may yield an hundred bales
of cotton and 5000 bushels of corn, with
fodder enough to winter the 500 sheep
with their four hundred lambs. This
general course pursued five years and the
ne ia will he
land 200 bales of cotton 68e0 bushels of
corn, etc, and be keeping as a regular
flock 1000 sheep. yielding a net annual
rroft of $4,000 from the cotton. corn and
sheep. while the whole plantation shall
be growing richer and richer every year.
Let US take a peep over at the wheat
farmer who has an equal number of
acres to wheat that is gradually dwindling
down from an annual yield of 30 bushels
to Is and 10. Here again is the sign "A
aFrmer Wanted to Handle the wheat
farm on the same general principle, and
diversihcaN1on as the cotton plantation
with similar results. If not sheep, (Which
tie. or even hogs and chickens to con-
sumo the above on the farms.
As noted above. so it is with nine
over the State. Their "run down condi-
ton and "shiftless" appearance is the
sign post their profitless returns is the
inscription thereon, "a Farmer Wanted"
Can't we see and read it? What is to be
done? Why there are not young men
enough q years old and educated so that
under examination they can answer this
advertisement.
Wi 70 To
pay out millions to the meat houses of
the northwest; to the clothing factories
of the northeast: to the shepherds of the
north, of Australia of South America; to
the fertilizing manure factories of the
north of Germany, of Chile of Peru and
of the buzzard and duck islands of the
sea; when we may have all these and
more within the borders of our own hap
by CD homes in our southland?
The conditions are here and ready and
providence has done his part; yet the
notice is up. Wont we see? Why
there's millions in it, In answering
this advertisement there is not only
money but honor and a combination of
virtues, eliminating in glorious man
hood, even better and greater than the
boosted fathers in the anti bellum days
and SO dearly loved by the passing gener-
alton.
Then advanced farmer of today is not a
drudge. He is not merely "a man with
hoe. He is a scientist, phi
losopher. He is all in one a mechanic,
botanist. engineer, chemist geologst
mathematician, hydrologist, physician,
psychologist anatomist. electrician and
believer in God. Qf he is not this latter
he is all the time, one way or another,
at cross purposes with nature, which he
must harmonic with every day in his
work for God.) God is cultivating His
earthly garden of Eden yet. and these
sciences are workers in natures agricus-
ture. The intelligent farmer of
today directed and uses them. He
understands the laws of reproduction
as we'll as the elements of animal
growth He compounds the fertilzng
elements of plants; prepares the soil to
receive them, and aids nature to new life
in plant growth. He can drive the team
or the engine and rides the pillow, the
harrow. the planter, the cultivator and
the harvester. He cooks and half digests
the food he feeds to animal life. He
drives the mill by horse, water, steam
or electric power. and will soon talk to
his neighbor through the air miles away
in distance.
But the young man answers: eve are
not educated or trained to these re-
quirements." l reply: go and get edu-
Gated and trained" Why our State has
an Agricultural and Mechanical College
that is reckoning and entreating the
young men to come and learn and has
nVn txrirt oil
ly for those who can not spend the sum
mers from the farm.
Ye parents who have sons on the farms.
growing Up in their teens" hear me
few minutes. Young man, whose life is
row budding into manhood listen while
say TO you. go ana attend that college.
Fit Yourself to answer the call from your
fathers plantation ~aA the farms all
..rot,pd Won for E@ynnnp Wantod