The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-28
The Same Labor Will Produce Greater Results on the
Farm than in Town.

The Same Labor Will Produce Greater Results on the
Farm than in Town.
Here is the case Of a man with a wife and two
small children who couldn't make a living in
Stokes raising six-cent, tobacco, sold out his per-
sonal effects at a loss of SO per cent, moved "to
town. and took a position at 81 per day. The
cheapest house he could find in town was $6 per
month, and this in a locality very Objectionable
on account of the uncongenial surroundings and
unsanitary location. He has to walk nearly two
miles to his work, has negroes and a low class of
whites for neighbors. His wood costs him $3.50
per cord, hand to chop it costs 81. He has to
be at his post of duty at 6 o'clock a. m, and gets
off at Z p. m. Twelve hours a day. His wife has
been sick a good deal of the time, and he had to
pay a physician So each visit. Every time he
turns around it costs money. The rent is cash,
doctors bills cash, groceries cash, etc. Beef ten
to fifteen cents per pound, -four 1915 per hun
dred, etc. The tax collector has yet to come
around. And the tax collector hits you hard in
town. If this young man had time, from his
twelve hours a day to do a little figuring, he
would doubtless find his last state far worse than
his first.
Now, we want you to turn that "town energy"
to the old farm. Put in 313 days, at twelve hours
per day, which was required of you at the factory.
You need not work quite so hard as when the
eagle-eye of the boss was on you. This will pro-
duce about 1000 pounds of good tobacco, ten
barrels of corn, fodder, shucks, wheat, rye, pota-
toes, cabbage, tomatoes, egges, chickens, turkeys,
canned blackberries, huckleberries, sweet potatoes,
onions, peas, beans, and a great variety of other
things which will bring in the hard cash, besides
cutting and hauling all the wood, etc., you need
and placing the plantation in fine shape for work.
And your children will have gone to school, your
wife will have enjoyed her life, and the time will
have passed much more pleasantly than the time
you eked out in the city.
Say what you please about the Trust and six
cent tobacco-we are to blame. Let us come out
from under the Master and be free. There is al
ways a good living for the man who is willing to
work. We need education to show us that we
have been fools in the past. We need to practice
industry and thrift, and to put sense in our
work.
Yes, come back, brother, to the old farm. The
sweet south wind is ready to play among it's shady
hooks and gambol on its hills. A thousand,
thousand flowers are ready to burst out in all the
~gladness of spring. Come back from the foul airs
of the factory and the slavery of the city, to the
freedom of the old plantation, the noblest labor
under heaven and chosen vocation of God.
Come back and let's go to work to build good
roads, churches, school-houses, organize book
clubs, establish telephones, free rural deliveries
and the hundred other things to make life happier
on the farm. No other atmosphere is so free and
so sweet to promote the growth of better women
and better men.-Danbury Reporter.