The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-01-03
So 20 per bushel; tomatoes (canned,

$3 20 per bushel; tomatoes (canned)
S3c to 10o-now 123c per quart can;
cotton 81; cotton seed 25c per bushel;
hides, wool and feathers "out of
sight" and everything else almost
that can be produced on the farm at
a proportionate rate. The prices
quoted are partly retail but ,hr
farmers of our county are not taxed
for the privilege of marketing their
own products and therefore are on ali
equal footing with the regular dealers
With the above prices staring us
in the face and the further fact tha t
large quantities of nearly all the
above named food products are
shipped here f.om other section,
daily to supply the demand of our
own home market, is it strange that
any one who stops to think of the
matter at all must get somewha
puzzled"
To find prac'ical remedy for this
unfortunate condition and subject it
to actual and energetic application.
certainly appears to be the thing
most urgent and important and should
furnish the flood for rhonght" tn
every farmer in the county during
d 10 remainder of tho leng winter
nights.
As an alien, feel hesitancy in
offering suggestions to those ito the
manor born" mos, of whom are per-
,hapss older both in years and ex
perience but conscious of purpose
for good only will venture few
IDEAS gathered from experience else
where and close observation here. Z
4; Farmers as class are not idolent
but many BECOME indifferent as re-
suit Of repeated failures and continued
absence of proper incentive to effort.
aud this difficulty is nearly always
brought about by wrong system, so
old in practice perhaps as to be called
"rut farming" by the more advanced
farmers Of today. This ''ru, farm
ing" is an "heirloom" which has
been handed down from generation
to generation for uutoll ages, and
consists of planting certain things at
certain times regardless of adaptab bill
| i.y Of soil al fertilization Qarge y
regulated by the moons phases) and
| asupreme contempt for new tangled
Eideas and the lman who .'fools away
, tme" reading books and newspaper.
written by linen who never raised .
bale Of cotton in their lives" This
class of farmers is doomed to dis
couragement and incidence because
their very existence is entirely mat
ter Of chance OF accident,
But do not great many of ouI
m re progressive farmers make mis-
takes of different character that ar,
JUST as disastrous in their results? l,
it not an u",n'etakabie ftct that to con
nitrate the whole ofone's force ant
capital in the way of fertilizers, sup
Plies TOR stock and labor upon .
si"glrsproduct blunder fraught will
grave danger, because in the event o
failure from any cause, there is II,
hope of red, mpti"n. Ia it not mis-
take to ''cu'tlvale" large number .
acres of average" land, projucnI
from Year to year according to It
stimulation by hypodermic injection
Of commercial fertlliz.rs, while by rh
careful saving and home nanufactur
of solid aud lasting compost manure
such as naturally accumulate in tn
barn ward, from The housing and bee
dug Of all stock, from the ash hea
and di ch bN.ks and numerous othe
sources and its anplicAsion TO fe,
4 acres each yesr.ip q surprisingly sho,
\ time theSg ma sks bad 3 or 10 acre
! thss will pr dlce 'as much 40 th
"average" as or 40 acres. with th
added superiority in qnslity Of ,b
product. and q pride mud satisfac,io
! in the possessor thar will render il
cultivation . tabor Of love" and
fl.,joy Ereyer." Is il not q rnistsl
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