Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-10
Increase Fertility of Soil.

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The all absorbing question among
farmers several years ago Vas, How
can we improve labor conditions:
Now one hears very little discus
sion of the labor problem. Having
come to the conclusion that there
was practically. no hope of ever
rendering farm labor more reliable
or more profta bic, farmers SET
about to improve conditions by
using labor saving machinery ano
by adopting new methods. By ex
periments on their own farms, a:
we'll as through the experience Of
their neighbors, those who till the
soil have learned that the secret Of
| successful farming is to obtain the
largest possible yield from a small
area of land, thus reducing the cost
| of labor to a minimum. But in order
to farm intensiyely the fertility Of
| the soil must be increased. To show
that farmers all over the country
realize this, we quote from Presi
dent Taft's address in Columbia on
the Fair grounds Saturday:
II have been all around the
United States. Engaging about, SC
that 1 have covered about $4,000
miles, and everywhere the question
is, How can the land be made tc
bear more than it is bearing?
doubt if ever in the history of the
country that question was being
agitated with the same degree of in
tensity and the same determination
to make the land bear more than ii
ever did before III; n it is to-day, and
the reason is that the population is
growing in the world and the de-
mand for farm products is growing
faster than the supply of those
products, and hence it is that it is
the farmers that are getting rich
and we poor lawyers and rrofes,
sional men have to extend our prac,
tice upon the farmers in order to
share in it. And it's q healthy sign.
The accumulation, the concen-
tration of millions of people in
cities is not healthy, and the i'm
provements in country life, the
suburban electric railway, the tele-
phone, the rural delivery and the
means of reducing the hard work
of the farmers wife by inventions
and the cooperative arrangements
are reaching such a point that it be-
comes, I hope, or soon will become,
more comfortable to live in the
country than to live in the city.
1.-THE rewards of agric ultural sue
dess are becoming so much greater
for the young men who exert in
genuity, intellect, professional
knowledge and energy upon their
work that they will be retained in
the country. Otherwise, l should
feel that the movement was n of
degeneracy and not of progress.
Every town, of course, wants to in
crease in population, but with the
cities becoming great and the tene-
lnent houses numerous and the ny
giene bad and the concentration Of
the vicious, makeimmoral communi-
ties"
If, as President Taft says, far
mers in the southwest and west,
where the lands are already very
fertile, are endeavoring to reap
larger yields of cotton, corn and
grain per acre, how much more
necessary it is for the farmers of
South Carolina and Edgefeld coun-
ty to improve their impoverished
soil.
1.-THE population is growing in
the world and the demand for farm
products is growing faster than the
supply of those products" says Mr..
Taft; therefore, we can not expect
to purchase bacon, lard, meal, flour
and corn at the old prices again.
Better improve your soil and pro-
duce these necessities at home, for
the South will never gain and main
tain it's agricultural and financial
independence by growing all cotton
and purchasing western products.
Begin now to improve your soil
through rotation-sow a large
acreage of wheat and oats.
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