The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-05-09

nothing gained by delay.
SOC. and $1.0O Bottles.
REFUSE sussr,rurzs.
you may can turn it in for ma
nure, or cut it for forage, and even
II you cut it, my friends, it does
not take away the value it has
rendered to you in the way of
nitrogen.
Some of you say you know the
value OF bow peas but did it ever
occur to you that YOU could not
grow the COW peas in the winter.
lou can rotate your crops with
the vetch or the clover and grow
your cow peas in the summer
with the corn and put in your
vetch and have continuous crop
the year around. And If your
cow peas are worth 50 to S12 per
acre as fertilizer, as they say it
is, the vetch will be worth double
that, as you cannot grow the COW
peas when you can grow the
vetch, and you cannot grow the
vetch when you can grow any
thing else.
Another proposition is the sub
ject Of swamp drainage. 1t would
not be worth while for me to
stand here and talk to you in
favor of swamp drainage, because
every man knows something of
the value of that. We know that
the plant roots must have air, and
We know if there is an excess of
water, they do not get the air.
The water fills in and drives the
air out. We are not drowned
out, it is simply that we have an
excess of water. We have not
had sufficient drainage. We have
not had our farms prepared so
: that the water will be taken off
!. at the proper time, so we know
something about the drainage on
: the farm. but We do not know
|, much about drainage of the
swamp lands. Somebody says
that is not feasible, somebody
! says it will cost too much, some
= oody Says we cannot carry it on
: We are JUS. forty years behind
: the State Ct Indiana. We are
I about fifty years behind the State
= = of Illinois and the State of Iowa
u Did you ever hear anything abou
= the great corn-growing State o:
: Iowa? Their lands were just like
! this (indicating) before they re
- claimed them.
;" Did you ever hear the stor,
= about two men going through tn
u State of Indiana, talking abou
- the poverty of the country. Loo
,, ,, at that farm thrown out, look a
: this swamp nobody can use. Loo
=. at the poverty everywhere. The.
&c kept driving on and considerin!
u the conditions of the State OF In
diana. At last they came to
~ :: little bit of farm house, and tn
~ \ fellow that was occupying tn
- farm house was just over tn
"a "a fence, and they were still talkin;
*, -, about the poverty, and the farme
a -; raised his head and stuck it owe
-. ~ the fence, and said, Look here
II gentlemen, | want you to under
l. stand that | do not own this land
y / am a tenant here;;'' but thin
IL, II of it today. They began to re
"a claim the land by drainage, the
~ ~ began to organize great dralnag
n districts, just as we al
~ undertaking to do now in tn
80 county and in other countie
W and it was not long befol
~ the spirit was spread from or
~ county to another over the el
cs tire State, and where land he
en been worth So to "a per acre the
~ *. had great corn fields, and IL
60 land began to go up in value;ar
ny where they had poverty one
az they had millions, and LAM
s.s worth So and 81 per acre we
~ ~ up to $50 and 500 and $50 p
ia acre. The lands before tn
.Ce were worth nothing. The on
NJ thing they ever had to do Wi
VI ~ it was to pay the taxes when t
ne sheriff came around. And ma
rs, of your swamp lands today
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