Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-30
KEEP MONEY AT HOME.
It's Up to the Farmer to Solve the
Problem.

Problem.
a late bulletin issued by the agrl-
cultural department Of the government
has attracted considerable attention
among those farmers of the county
who have read IT, largely for the
reason that it substantiates a claim
which has been made that the farm
ers of the south can keep their money
at home by raising their own meat
instead of buying it from the west.
The bulletin is authored by Prof. ID,
r. Gray and is a composite utter
ance on the need Of the southern
farmer to learn the way Of wisdom
and to refrain from giving his entire
time and energies TO the production of
cotton when he can be making enough
of home products to keep his money
i'm his pocket all the year around.
1t is plainly pointed out in the bull
letin that while the people of the
south by reason Of all of their nat
ural advantages of location and cii-
mate can raise hogs more cheaply
than they can buy meat from the
| west and ship it here, they continue
| to ignore these undeniable facts and
pursue the latter course. The rela-
| ton of the business of raising meat
| to the occupation of raising cotton Is
intellgently discussed in the bulletin
and il affords enlightenment and in
terest to any who may find time to
reflect upon the problem of the south
ern farmer in his efforts to work out
| his own salvation.
| The argument which is put forth In
| the government bulletin TO the ERECT
| that the southern farmer can never
| control the price of cotton until ne
can place himself in such a position
as to hold his crop off the market Is
thoroughly in line with the teaching
of the leaders in the movements OF
today among the farmers. Among
other things Professor Gray says in
| this bulletin:
| THE southern people are large
meat consumers, but small meat pro-
ducers. In fact, the south consumes
more meat per capita than any other
section of the country, but large
proportion of this meat is shipped
into the south from other sections of
| the country To give an instance.
during the year 1907 there were 49,
151 homegrown animals slaughtered
in the city of Birmingham, Ala, (this
includes cattle, veal. hogs, sheep and
| kids, while there were 36,O91 live
| western animals brought into the city
and slaughtered. In addition to these
western live animals brought into the
city. there were 5,7S1,470 pounds of
fresh meat shipped in and sold, as
| well as thousands of pounds Of west
| ern-cured meat. This means that
| more than a million dollars go out OF
the city of Birmingham alone each
| year into distant states for meats, and
this money could all be kept at home
| if the southern farmer would but pro-
| duce the meat
Pork can be made as cheaply, and
perhaps more cheaply, in the south
than i'm any section of the country
And there are many reasons why our
southern farmers should introduce this
line of animal production into their
farming system. One of these reasons
| is mentioned abOve-the money spent
| for meat by the southern people would
| be kept at home. Another is the in
| tluence it would probably have on the
price of cotton.
"It will never be possible for the
south to control the price of cotton
until the southern farmer places him
self i'm such a position that he can hold
the crop after it is produced SO long
| iS lll lIlt ldI IlltlS are ItuulItu W sci
the entire crop of cotton each fall, Sc
long will its price be an unreliable and
unstable one. The only way i'm which
the farmer can place himself i'm a pO-
sition where he will not have to sell
all his cotton each fall is to produce
something i'm addition to cotton: and
unqueStionably one of the best supple
mentS to the cotton crop would be the
raising of hogs. The hog business can
be So arranged that the owner can
have money coming i'm at least twice
Il year, which would enable him to
hold his cotton as long as he pleaSes.
The bulletin calls attention to the
| fact that corn alone is not the best
food for hogs, and thus disposes of the
claim that it is cheaper to buy meat
| than ii is to raise it. because corn Is
so high. 1t shows that mixed diet
is best for hogs and that several corns
are better for feeding purposes.