The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-13
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she would make just as many bales
of cotton as.she is now making and
the crop Is costing the farmers to-day
by using the manure from their
-herds>and hooks.
NThfnk for one moment how it
would change the looks of this eoun-
try and@makela"good impression on
the stranger as he passed through
our Southland, to see these old red
hillsides covered with green grass
and nice herds of cattle and focks
Of sheep grazing on them.
Gentlemen, this kind-ef farming
is the highest type Of agriculture.
know there are men sitting in this
audience who are ready to say dairy
ing and stock raising cannot be made
profitable in the South. Thirty
years ago was the South a cotton
manufacturing country? No T.
"a maH&had predicted then that
twenty-five years from then would
see South Carolina one of the lead
ing cotton manufacturing States in
the country, there were people who
would have said that man is crazy.
Now gentlemen. why is South Car
DINA one OF the leading cotton man.
ufacturing States? Because she has
put brains and capital into the in
dustPyJ and because she has more
natural advantages than the New
England States. To-day the cotton
mills! of the South are paying the.
largest dividends OF any other State.
I-hope that Imay live to see the day
come when our people will quit say
ing that we cannot raise as fine cat
5tlet hogs sheep and horses in South
Carolina as can be raised in Ken
lucky or the Northern States, for I
tell you it is not true, for history
tells Us that the South has produced
as brilliant men as any country and
il it isAtrue of men, why cannot it
be the same with producing fine ami
mails. The fault is not in the con-
ditions around you, but in your own
selves. p
1 hope to see our own men ele-
vatedk above a cotton patch, a mule
and q free negro. Gentlemen, this
kind of farming, 1 have been speak.
ing abont, a free negro cannot do;
but he@can raise cotton and come in
competition with you and his cotton
bale will bring on the market just
as much as yours. In fact he has
been pricing your cotton for the last
twenty years @
II We hear farmers say there is no
market for dairy products. Why
should a man say that, when there
are at least 100000 or 100000
worth OF butter shipped into South
Carolina every year and sold to our
people? 1 tell you every dollars
worth OF that butter can be raised
by the farmers of South Carolina.
Now, brother farmers, we will
have to change our method of farm
labor and the ooner we begin it the
better off We will be. How are we
to do this? By Investigation and
rotation THE farmer who rotates
his, crops, improves his soil, improves
his surroundings, improves himself
and makes it easier for the next
generation to travel life's journey.
He is a race benefactor, making, as
he does, this world better and better
the longer he lives in It and contin-
uesr his good deeds. The farmer who
rotates his crops will feed, clothe
and educate his children better than
his one crop neighbour. His children
will love him better and he win love
them better. The community will
speak well of him while he lives and
go, into true mourning when ne Is
gone.-Columbia State.