Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-07-24
The FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Some Of The Reasons Why The Farmers
Should Attend This Meeting, July 30th.

Mr.. EDITOR: Please allow me
space In your paper to urge your
farmer subscribers to br,ng their
wives and friends to the Farmers
Institute to be held in the Court
House in Salisbury on Tuesday,
July 80.
As you quite we'll know the
State Department of Agriculture
sends out men and women, who
have been especially trained, to
help the farmer and his wife sue
cessfully to meet and overcome
the many problems in field and
home.
Competition is so keen in the
commercial world that if the mer-
chant, banker or railroad man
does not adopt new business meth
DDS, time savers, etc., as they are
perfected and offered he would be
left hopelessly behind in the race
for wealth and would thus lose
the happiness ease and pleasure
which the wealth would bring him
and his family.
The farmer is face to face with
a competition greater and hercer
than that of the merchant, the
banker or the railroad man. The
North Carolina merchant at most
has only a score or SO of competi
tors; the banker a half dozen; the
railroad man only one or two.
The North Carolina farmer is in
competition with the world. He
completes with the South in cot
ton; with the West in hay, grain.
cattle and hogs; with China and
India in rice; with Australia in
mutton; with Argentina in wheat
and so on down the list with very
nearly every farm or garden pro-
duct of the State.
For the farmer then, to be sue
cessful as his work demands. it Is
necessary for him to adopt new
methods, time and labor savers,
Just as other business men do. He
must learn to keep account with
his crops as the merchant does
with his customers and, when he
finds one that doesn't pay, drop
it and devote his time to the other
crops that do pay. In this time
of scarcity aud high priced ineff,
cient labor he must make horse
flesh and machinery do his work
for him. These are a few of the
many problems that tho Depart
ment of Agriculture has been
working on and 1T is seuding these
trained men and women to tell us
of what has been learned of new
methods, time and labor savers.
The average OIL crop of North
Carolina is only about thirteen
bushels to the acre. yet these men
of the Department at Raleigh have
grown lightweight bushels and
that on land which a few years ago
the farmers of this section would
have classed IS poor, or only fairly
good. Not only did they grow
this crop Of 8S bushels but they
grew it at a less cost of human
labor than the average farmer
grows his average thirteen.
II a man should cone to you
and say Mr.. Farmer, I'll tell you
how to make five bushels more per
acre OH your corn crop if you will
give me half of it," Nine out of
ten would answer ''1'll do it, 60
ahead and prove it."
These men from the State De-
partment of Agriculture will tell
us how they have grown, not thir-
tt Ell bushels, but eighty eight,
and will not charge you a single
peck Of the extra seveuty7five
bushels for SO doing.
You, your team, wife Il. d fam
ily all need a rest and will feel
better for it. Take the day off,
Tuesday, July 80, come in and
hear what is said and then if it is
good to you, go home and try it.
The holiday will do you good any
way.
Now, Mr.. EDITOR, I want to
thank you for giving me so much
of your time and also would like
to thank those progressive mrr-
ohoDtu and daaiers. Salisbury