The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
Electric Car on South coustreet Photograph Made April s8

II ss I day in the year, failure or disaster
 would not be likely eo blast all of his
 different products. The weather that
 ruins one product might be the life of another and for this reason total
 failure may not occur once h cen-
 tury. AR
 q reasan tn support of this plea e an oNerproduetion of any one
 farm product always entails a loss on lsduets tiAanss tho epld eaa lA
 sure to knock down the price below the cost of pfodHctfon and loss in money is sure to follows l A fourth reason in support of our plea fs. that divefsihcatlou under wise management will Keep enough of the real necessities of life on. the market to supply the demand and thus afford living price for all the products made without great loss on any product, thereby supplying the needs of the pur- chaser at fair and living prices.
 A fifth reason for diverslficatlon and one of tho very best is, that 1t does act require the constant delying the year round to eke out a poor living, but one half the time now devoted, to 40 acres and the mule will give, wheng wisely directed, more money and better living than the old way of working
 
 time come out in deOt with not a lux ury for the family, the patient un- complaining wire and children half clad with no reward for their labor or even a promise of one in the future. Thousands of families today in Alaba- ma are doomed to unremitting toll and without hope of reward for their constant every day toll. because the labor is not wisely bestowed in the di- rection of making ah the necessities and luxuries of life on the farm.
 Another and sixth reason in favor of my plea is, that Alabama agriculture will never be elevated to -tiIat grand eur and dignity to whicn5 it is entitled until diversified farming takes thesplaceS of the old methods A house cannot stand the blasts of bleak winter with out sure foundation, neither can the old ways of farming pc profitable so long as all cotton or all corn is made the only resource of revenue. When the farmer fills his barn with corn and hay, the smoke house with meat and lard, his pasture with luxuriant grass on which improved breeds of cows. young horses and mules and fat hogs graze, the wife with her poultry yard crowded with fat tuFKeys ana tender frying -sised chickens and hundreds of laying hens to eaeklo over the dozens of newly laid eggs every day in the week--with all these, and many other 1uxuries are given as rewards for in- dustry. surely Alabama farniers win be proud they are farmers.
 Before close this article allow me ot make a Aggression, to put in plea for agricultural education in all our public schools. It fs we'll understood that fountain can rise no higher than it's source. All other avocations have educational standing behind them to aid in their practice save the farmer, whose only education with few ex- captions is gleaned from the school of experience and observation. The science of agriculture is of all sciences the least taught anl least understood and to this may be attributed the low standard of agriculture now prevailing in Alabama at this day and time. The old idea that the most untutored igho- rant <of a community are it to make good farmers, was never true, and in the latter days the fallacy is so plain. that the scales are failing off the eyes of thinking men and the fact is now seen, that of all life's difficult problems, the most intricate one to solve is the problem of agriculture. It is now acc knowledged that the men of the broad est intellects are the men needed on the farm. g
 The lawyers knowledge of law is obtained from the written judge The doctors skin Is found in the written experience of close practical obserVa- tion by those who have gone before. the minister han the quintescence of the greatest theological minds since the Christian era began on which to draw when he feeds his flock, but the far mer must seek his best lesson from the unwritten book of nature, whose laws are immutabie. any violation of the laws will result in loss, therefore give the farm the men who possess the strongest intellect, minds able to see how to follow and obey these laws.
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