The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-08-13

then the hay statistics will tell diff
ferent story to the next generation
and the matter of the restoration O.
the soils of the cotton country is a.
simple as shoeing horses and easier.
In dairy products. poultry ant
eggs the supremacy of the North il
even more pronounced than it is ir
the growing, the harvesting, and the
saving of hay, and yet in the Gul.
States it ought to be as profitable tt
make and sell pound of butter fol-
| 20 cents as it is to make that pound
of butter in New York, or Illinois, OF
Wisconsin for Is cents. The South
has at least 5 cents a pound advan
tage on the cost of production.
In Wisconsin cow must be kept
in parlor six months of the year
and on the Gulf Of Mexico that COW
will not suffer if allowed to run al
large all winter. In Wisconsin the
pasture season is short. In Alabama
1t Is long, but Alabama all her life
has been growing cotton, and only
lately turned her attention to mining
coal and forging iron. With alfalfa
and intelligent dairy farming, that
means provldent rotation of crops,
Alabama would soon become great
er milk, butter, eggs, cheese and
poultry State than New York, and
raise two bales of cotton with less
labor than she now raises one bale.
There is man down at West Point,
Miss, in the black lands between the
Noxubee river and Okolona whose
plantation was literally worn out
growing cotton, SO that it would not
produce half a bale an acre, on sell
where in 1850 there had been aban-
doned in the field on January 1st
half bale an acre, because there
were not sufficient hands to pick it.
! This man went in for alfalfa, cow
peas, and hogs, with the result that
he gets eight tons of hay per acre a
single season. He sells hogs by tie
carload that are fatted at half the
cost of the Iowa or Nebraska hog,
and he has restored the fertility of
his land to the extent that it now
produces over bale Of cotton to the
acre.
What that man has done-and
wish / could recollect his name-all
his neighbors can do. l told John
Sharp Williams about him, and be-
sought John Sharp to lay off 100
acres Of his Yazoo land and try al
falfa. All the satisfaction | could
get ont Of John Sharp was, "I'il con-
suit Kit about it." Kit is boy of Z
summers. John Sharp is from the
distinctively cotton country, but l
do wish he would try patch of al
falfa. One day | saw at Lake Provi-
dence, La, white clover about two
feet tall. What would alfalfa do
there? 1t would get to the caves Of
the house.
Thousands and thousands of our
population are leaving the high
priced lands of Illinois, Wisconsin.
Minnesota, and Iowa, and have gone
across the border, settled in the Do
minion Of Canada, and voluntarily
become subjects of King Edward
VII. There they get cheap homes
with nearly all the conveniences they
left in the States. There they have
low taxes, something they did not
have in the States. There they en-
joy cheap living, blessing utterly
and hopelessly out of fashion in our
free country. There the country is
not tossed in blanket every four
years, to the discontinue and terror
of business, to see who shall be the
| first man in the land.
| If were young man / would go
there too, to get out of and away
from the cant Of American politics
for example, both parties are fish
ing for the pension vote. But that
is sacrilege, and l take it back.
If the South were known to the
men of Iowa as know it, Iowa would
send farmers to the South instead OF
to the Canadian Dominion.
Yet of noble race was Shenkin.
And so the South will manage to
jog along as independent as that
Viking of the high seas, who loved
the storm and enterd into battle
with it.
MEN PAST SIXTY IN DANGER.
More than half of mankind ovel
! sixty wears of age suffer from kidney